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Raptor Island
DVD cover
Written byStanley Isaacs
Dean Widenmann
Directed byStanley Isaacs
StarringLorenzo Lamas
Steven Bauer
Hayley DuMond
Music byPeter Bernstein
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
CinematographyDavid Worth
EditorChristopher Roth
Running time89 min.
Original release
NetworkSci Fi Channel
ReleaseAugust 21, 2004

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

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 except Azir, who murders a SEAL, stealing his armor and machine gun. 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 eaten 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

Sequel

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

Raptor Island was released on DVD on November 14, 2006 by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Internet mobisodes

Mobisodes can be found on YouTube in twenty parts.

References

  1. ^ Shaheen, Jack G. (2012), Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11, Interlink Books, p. 46, ISBN 1623710200.

Raptor Island at IMDb