Raptor Island
Raptor Island | |
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Written by | Stanley Isaacs Dean Widenmann |
Directed by | Stanley Isaacs |
Starring | Lorenzo Lamas Steven Bauer Hayley DuMond |
Music by | Peter Bernstein |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Cinematography | David Worth |
Editor | Christopher Roth |
Running time | 89 min. |
Original release | |
Network | Sci Fi Channel |
Release | August 21, 2004 |
Related | |
Planet Raptor |
Raptor Island is a Sci Fi original film about an island in the South China Sea. The film debuted on the Sci Fi Channel on August 21, 2004.[1]
Plot
[edit]A team of SEALs chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a hostage special agent. While tracking the terrorists, mutated dinosaurs appear and the mission changes into simple survival. The dinosaurs use their skilled sense of smell and ability to swim to hunt down the SEALs and terrorists.
After losing several men to the raptors and killing some of the terrorists, the SEALs manage to rescue the female agent, Jamie, captured by the terrorists. She and the remaining SEALs discover a crash site of a Chinese airplane. Around the site are broken containers that had contained nuclear waste. The team figures the spilled waste caused the local animals to mutate into dinosaurs. The dinosaurs kill all the terrorists and SEALs except Azir, Jamie and the SEAL's leader. After encountering more mutant raptors, the last three SEALs and Jamie find refuge in a cave, which turns out to be the nest of the dinosaurs. In the end, Azir is killed by a mutated Carnotaurus and the island is destroyed as a result of volcanic activity. The last scene is of three raptors escaping the carnage, swimming after the rescue helicopter.
Cast
[edit]- Lorenzo Lamas as Hacket
- Steven Bauer as Azir
- Hayley DuMond as Jamie Cole
- Michael Cory Davis as Marcus
- Peter Jason as Captain
- Hristo Shopov as Quinn
- Atanas Srebrev as Simon
- Ivo Tonchev as Rico
- Michail Elenov as Kalif
- Yulian Vergov as Rashid
- Pavil Gavrilov as Yusef
- Velislav Pavlov as Hassan
- Dejan Angelov as Diaz
Sequel
[edit]Raptor Island was followed by the loosely related 2007 sequel Planet Raptor. Planet Raptor is set in the year 2066, when Earth's only occupants are raptors and marines. Planet Raptor is directed by Gary Jones and was filmed entirely in Romania.
Home media
[edit]Raptor Island was released on DVD on November 14, 2006 by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Internet mobisodes
[edit]Mobisodes can be found on YouTube in twenty parts.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Shaheen, Jack G. (2012), Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11, Interlink Books, p. 46, ISBN 978-1623710200.
External links
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- 2004 television films
- 2004 films
- Films about dinosaurs
- 2004 science fiction films
- Syfy original films
- American science fiction action films
- 2004 action thriller films
- Films set on islands
- Films shot in Bulgaria
- American action television films
- American thriller television films
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s American films
- American thriller television film stubs
- 2000s science fiction film stubs