Raptor starts with three teenagers speeding around the desert in a jeep, they stop so one of them can take a pee which turns out to be a bad idea as a genetically created & enhanced Raptor attacks, kills & eats them. Sheriff Jim Tanner (Eric Roberts) & Deputy Ben Glover (Harrison Paige) are on the case, first impressions suggest an animal attack so they call in animal control officer Barbara Phillips (Melissa Brasselle) to try & figure out what was responsible. Evil, misguided & sinister genetic scientist Dr. Hyde (Corbin Bernsen) is informed that one of his Raptors had gotten loose & realises that it killed the teenagers, he decides to shut up shop & go elsewhere so he comes up with a plan for transporting Raptor eggs in chicken trucks, unfortunately one hatches, gets loose & attacks Sheriff's Tanners daughter Lola (Lorissa McComas) at which point it becomes 'personal' for Sheriff Tanner. Tanners investigations lead him to Dr. Hyde, his laboratory & an old military project called 'Jurassic Storm' designed to create dinosaur soldiers, or something like that. The military themselves are worried about bad publicity & so decide to shut the operation down themselves, but will they be in time to stop the dinosaurs escaping, breeding & using us as a source of food...
Co-written & directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym Jay Andrews, he also has a small cameo in it, I actually thought Raptor was a lot of fun, it's an awful film to be sure but a highly entertaining one all the same. The first thing anyone unfamiliar with Raptor need to know is that it is pasted together from five other films, Humaniods from the Deep (1980), The Nest (1988), Carnosaur (1993), Carnosaur 2 (1995) & Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996), while I have not seen all of these films it's obvious that huge chunks of footage was used in Raptor from each. It might be as much as a 50/50 split between new & old footage. Oh, & the music was taken from Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Anyway, the script by Wynorski, Frances Doel & Michael B. Druxman moves along like a rocket & it's far from boring or uneventful although it has more inconsistencies & plot holes than a sieve. There is a sex scene near the start which lasts for about 5 minutes, there's no reason for it other than to show a pair of breasts belonging to a real babe which is more than fine with me, I mean that's the sort of mentality I have & the sort of level I'm at in regard to films. It has loads of gory dinosaur attacks, babes, big guns, explosions, one-liners & enough action to satisfy my lofty standards! The character's are dumb, the story is dumb & makes little sense, the dialogue is unintentionally funny, it's clichéd & it's just downright stupid but I really liked it & was throughly entertained, what that says about me I don't know & I'm not sure I want to know either! The film has an Aliens (1986) crossed with Jurassic Park (1992) vibe to it, from the military running around trying to kill nasty monsters with big guns to the climatic fight between the hero in a mechanical vehicle & the main big monster along with all sorts of misguided genetic experiments that end in tears.
Director Wynorski couldn't make a competent film even if he tried, the amount of continuity mistakes in Raptor has to be seen to be believed. The most obvious ones being actors changing from shot to shot, clothes, props & the end where Sheriff Tanner fights the huge T-Rex with a digger which completely changes between shots to scenes where the background changes, for instance at the start the jeep stops next to a cliff yet when Sheriff Tanner gets there it's stuck in the middle of the desert. There's some good gore here, dinosaurs eating peoples intestines, severed hands, loads of blood spurting all over the place people getting torn to pieces, in short I was impressed.
Technically the film is atrocious & has the worst continuity in a film ever, the footage taken from the other films is really poorly matched but I found that gave it a slightly comic somewhat funny feel to it which I dug. The special effects all of which were apparently taken from the Carnosaur series of films vary but most are very poor. The acting was strictly tongue in cheek & I'd imagine everyone knew what they were getting themselves into, hey we all have to pay the rent right? I thought McComas who played Lola was a real babe & had a great pair of breasts. Hey, these things are important & worth mentioning OK?
I have no idea why but I really liked Raptor, it's total crap for sure but I just found it so watchable & entertaining which is just about the biggest compliment I can give to it. It doesn't make any real sense but sometimes you just have to go with it & forget about inconsequential things such as a story... Produced by Roger Corman, is there nothing this man won't put his name to?
Co-written & directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym Jay Andrews, he also has a small cameo in it, I actually thought Raptor was a lot of fun, it's an awful film to be sure but a highly entertaining one all the same. The first thing anyone unfamiliar with Raptor need to know is that it is pasted together from five other films, Humaniods from the Deep (1980), The Nest (1988), Carnosaur (1993), Carnosaur 2 (1995) & Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996), while I have not seen all of these films it's obvious that huge chunks of footage was used in Raptor from each. It might be as much as a 50/50 split between new & old footage. Oh, & the music was taken from Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Anyway, the script by Wynorski, Frances Doel & Michael B. Druxman moves along like a rocket & it's far from boring or uneventful although it has more inconsistencies & plot holes than a sieve. There is a sex scene near the start which lasts for about 5 minutes, there's no reason for it other than to show a pair of breasts belonging to a real babe which is more than fine with me, I mean that's the sort of mentality I have & the sort of level I'm at in regard to films. It has loads of gory dinosaur attacks, babes, big guns, explosions, one-liners & enough action to satisfy my lofty standards! The character's are dumb, the story is dumb & makes little sense, the dialogue is unintentionally funny, it's clichéd & it's just downright stupid but I really liked it & was throughly entertained, what that says about me I don't know & I'm not sure I want to know either! The film has an Aliens (1986) crossed with Jurassic Park (1992) vibe to it, from the military running around trying to kill nasty monsters with big guns to the climatic fight between the hero in a mechanical vehicle & the main big monster along with all sorts of misguided genetic experiments that end in tears.
Director Wynorski couldn't make a competent film even if he tried, the amount of continuity mistakes in Raptor has to be seen to be believed. The most obvious ones being actors changing from shot to shot, clothes, props & the end where Sheriff Tanner fights the huge T-Rex with a digger which completely changes between shots to scenes where the background changes, for instance at the start the jeep stops next to a cliff yet when Sheriff Tanner gets there it's stuck in the middle of the desert. There's some good gore here, dinosaurs eating peoples intestines, severed hands, loads of blood spurting all over the place people getting torn to pieces, in short I was impressed.
Technically the film is atrocious & has the worst continuity in a film ever, the footage taken from the other films is really poorly matched but I found that gave it a slightly comic somewhat funny feel to it which I dug. The special effects all of which were apparently taken from the Carnosaur series of films vary but most are very poor. The acting was strictly tongue in cheek & I'd imagine everyone knew what they were getting themselves into, hey we all have to pay the rent right? I thought McComas who played Lola was a real babe & had a great pair of breasts. Hey, these things are important & worth mentioning OK?
I have no idea why but I really liked Raptor, it's total crap for sure but I just found it so watchable & entertaining which is just about the biggest compliment I can give to it. It doesn't make any real sense but sometimes you just have to go with it & forget about inconsequential things such as a story... Produced by Roger Corman, is there nothing this man won't put his name to?