Carnosaur 3: Primal Species 1996
Directed by Jonathan Winfrey · 85 mins · 1,656 views
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I am currently staying in an Airbnb. They have a DVD player, a teeny tiny TV and a selection of maybe 15 DVDs. Of the discs available this film got my attention. Something to do with the Dinosaur on the cover appealed to me. On further reading I discovered that it’s the 3rd in a series of creature features. The OG was released the same year as Jurassic Park…so…I have only high hopes for this one! Maybe I’ll catch those other films another time. I don’t think I lost much in terms of prior knowledge. The plot is as you’d expect, a little ropey. As are the effects. It’s sort of the Aliens rip-off concept that’s kinda been done to death. But it’s not without a little charm. I’ve seen worse. Certainly worth 90s minutes of a late evening in rainy Northumberland.
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The third entry in the Carnosaur series retains the Aliens rip off tone of the second film, though at least this time it isn’t an exact microbudget carbon copy. We focus on a shipment of dinosaurs unwittingly stolen by a bunch of terrorists who thought it was uranium. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? Anyway, we then focus on a bunch of army guys that have to go in to sort out the situation after being given a load of exposition about how the Carnosaurs can regenerate cells. Much of the movie consists of the army guys bantering in cheaply built sets, though at least some of the banter is amusing. The special effects are ridiculous as is…
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I can’t believe I actually watched the Carnosaur trilogy in one day and lived to tell the tale. This movie is poorly made, poorly acted, and has the worst effects of the series.
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A Jurassic list Oh Corman… As lil sliver of late 90s comedic Corman shlock it has some semblance of entertainment value but all the charm of the previous entry is almost entirely lost with this one. Whereas Carno 2 was more than happy to indulge us in some low budget dino goodness this almost feels embarrassed that their reusing all the propers they’ve been using since ‘93 and as such anytime they appear on screen the camera op begins to have a seizure, thrashing the camera around so you can’t see jack shit. I’d be more than forgiving of this if the rest of the film had any ounce of charm but I guess the last of that was used…
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Everybody Walk The Dinosaur! #7 You just had to squeeze one more Carnosaur film out didn’t you Corman? Couldn’t have left well enough alone, we just needed a Carnosaur 3. I hope you’re happy. This sucks ass. It’s a cheaply put together product made purely to try and get just a smidgeon more profit out of this series. It looks cheap, it feels cheap, it’s so lifeless. The Dino effects are about on par with the second, but the cameraman spazzes out anytime they’re on screen making it hard to appreciate them. The gore is weak this time. What we get is nothing new or that impressive. It was just boring. You guys have no idea how hard it was to…
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The weakest in the trilogy. It’s basically a rehash of 2, this time recreating the aliens scenes that they missed out in the last entry. There’s a big drop in quality in every department. Ridiculous plot. Gore & practical effects are good. The amazing dinosaur puppets return, they’re so cool. The cast is a bit weak, Rick Dean absolutely steals the show. He’s hilarious as usual. The film is really sexist during some scenes which was just unnecessary, its pretty relentless at times. Score sounds very similar to Predator during the final act which made me laugh. If you’re a fan of the other Carnosaur films then you’ll enjoy this. While its a step down, it continues to be mindless fun from start to finish. Impossible to not be entertained.
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Shouldn’t there be six or seven Carnosaurs by now? Terrorists knocking over a military convoy unleash velociraptors at a California seaport. Spec-ops called in to contain through firepower are stifled by a scientist demanding a live specimen. Sound familiar? Not the only shade of Cameron and a bit McTiernan. A baited net, proximity sensors, ambush inside pipe-strewn interiors, and one pissed mother’s nest all recall their ’80s classics. Of course not in the same stratosphere and even shaky for a z-grader. Its dino attacks are edited defensively to mask John Carl Buechler’s hamstrung effects. Always flashes of puppets and man-in-suits at awkward angles crammed into a few seconds. Unsatisfying if bloody and breezy for its eighty minutes. Comedian Michael McDonald, who was working with producer Roger Corman at the time, appears briefly as a cop. Watched via New Concorde’s DVD.
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So it starts with a bunch of soldiers on a training exercise and they all get owned but a bunch of paramilitaries (?) who are trying to steal some uranium but walk into a refrigerated trailer full of dinosaurs. And proceed to bitch about the lack of uranium. They also get killed by the dinos. Flash forward we got poor man’s Barbara Crampton who’s a doctor studying the Carnosaurs and giving the new bitchy soldiers advice, and these soldiers like to complain, one of their biggest complaints is women in the military and taking orders from women. Then one of the dinos is “killed” only to have it completely heal while Dr Crampton-lookalike is explaining that they have a healing…
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“You ain’t draggin’ me around anymore! Ya know why? You’re dead. You shit! Son of a bitch!” **fires four rounds into cheap rubber suit velociraptor** Ah, Carnosaur III… Three? Three?! I’ve seen three of these blasted buggers, now? Fuck me. There’ll always be someone to bitch about franchise films significantly dropping in quality, and to those who bitch, they really shouldn’t, not until they’ve sat through a Corman-financed series of DTV films where the hamstrung effects get even more hamstrung, the wild B-movie thespians get even more wild, and there’s stunt performers in deteriorating rubber dino suits running away at a toddler’s pace despite the leading lady of science stating these dinos are the fastest fuckers on earth, second only…
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Carnosaur 3 is a waste of time. It’s more interested in giving us unfunny and dated comedy than it is in showing us the goofy dinosaur shit that we tuned in for. The few times we actually see the dinosaurs are plagued by blurry cinematography that often makes it hard to even see them. Rick Dean from Carnosaur 2 is back and playing essentially the same obnoxious character again, and he’s the only actor that I remember anything about. There really isn’t a lot to say about this one. It’s crap that fails to justify its existence. I may have fell asleep a couple of times while watching this, and I don’t think I missed anything of value.
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This is a huge step down from the first 2, but I still dig it for that sweet 90’s DTV aesthetic even if the aesthetic here is absolutely not the best the 90’s had to offer. This time, army grunts are fighting the dinos on a boat so maybe they’re navy grunts? I dunno. I just know that they sound most of their time screaming at each other and calling each other incompetent (in not as nice words) and then some dinosaur action happens every so often that lasts a few seconds. The dinos here are much darker and gooier than the previous two. It’s like they looked worse so the director just decide to cover them in tar and turn…
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Used to rent this one a lot as a kid so for years it was the only Carnosaur movie I had seen. It’s pretty bad but I love how the camera never stops moving, there’s so surprising attempts at style here. Love that they cast Rick Dean from the second movie as a different character just so they could reuse footage from his death scene at the end.
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Ddiabel cine 7 月 9, 2026
Counter strike hecho con cocaina y dinosaurios de hule que imponen más que los de Jurassic world
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“Angriff aus dem Dunkeln” Selbst bei einer Billig-Reihe musste hier noch an der Sparschrauber gedreht werden. Die Dinos sieht man man nur noch frameweise durch Wackelkameras oder Verzerrlinse, wie sie eine Gruppe Soldaten dezimieren. An sich ein nettes C-Movie, das aber als B-Movie mehr Spaß gemacht hätte.
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C’est toujours aussi mauvais et en plus ça devient de plus en plus pénible au fur et à mesure des films.
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fucking bootycheeks shit
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Rick Dean is a major part of why I watch this movie, and I think that’s as good a reason as any.
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TERROR WILL NEVER BE EXTINCT… If there’s one level of praise to give Roger Corman’s dinosaur producing …at least he was able to push out his trilogy hardly after The Lost World’s filming started? Only sacrificed by the cinematographical consistency of the third time altered Carnosaur POV effects and making the concept of genetically recreating just Raptors and T-Rexes practically public domain for research, still don’t know HOW a T-Rex can hide out for so long in a warehouse let…
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Once more I find myself unwittingly watching a sequel without having seen the earlier entries. In the UK this movie is just known as Primal Species, and I mistakenly thought it was the film adaptation of horror novel Carnosaur, not the third film in the subsequent series. Admittedly I’ve seen worse low budget dinosaur movies; at first it does an okay job hiding the comparatively cut price FX with quick editing, shakey camera and funky POV shots. However, there’s no hiding how bad the cast and the script are, and it quickly gets tedious, even with only 75 minutes of running time.
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It’s another meh movie in the franchise it’s not very enjoyable also the people are very stupid
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“Jeopardize the safety of the creatures? How the hell am I supposed to capture one of these things without firepower? What if something goes wrong? What if something breaks down? Excuse me, sir, but I really don’t think any one of these soldiers have been trained in hand-to-hand combat with a dinosaur!”
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CChadman 5 月 23, 2026
I can’t believe I rewatched this. God, I even had it logged. Still, I had no actual memory of it. What a boring shitfest. Not recommended
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Plot: Terrorists hijack a military convey thinking they are getting their hands on Uranium. Instead they unknowingly stole laboratory specimens; specifically cloned dinosaurs who naturally kill them and escape. A special forces team is then sent in to retrieve them. I told you I’d get around to the Carnosaur movies like I said in my Scorpius Gigantus review. And just like I said in Scorpius the two are nearly identical in terms of plot, although Scorpius is clearly the film…
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I lost my mind when the carnosaur bit the elevator cable in an attempt to kill our heroes.
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Undeniably the weakest of the initial three films (though I’m sure the following semi-sequels will shine a positive light on this) and lacking in most of the storytelling and craft qualities that many expect from the average movie. However, it has come to my attention over the years that there is a lobe of my brain that is destined to remain eight years old forever, and this film has murderous dinosaurs running amok. As such, I can only penalize it…
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Why can’t the jurassic park sequels be more like this i mean this is funny stuff if this went to theaters everyone would probably be laughing their asses off and enjoying the crazy kills
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For some reason this was the only Carnosaur movies I was able to find in widescreen and in 4K. The previous two were in 420p and were not in widescreen. I was really disappointed because this movie had a lot of potential but just fell short and it was also really anticlimactic. Characters were kind of meh and there was a really interesting idea that was sorta brought up that never really went anywhere and that was this sympathetic view…
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Total snoozefest with generic deadmeats. Rick Dean returns from part 2 as a new character with less charm. This movie is grossly sexist in a weird way, and they throw the f-slur around in one scene that’s sorely out of place. But at least MadTV’s Michael McDonald returns in a new expanded role to make me laugh! This one is a big skip.
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Okay this one was fucking abysmal. And why was every line of dialogue overdubbed? I mean, it made it hilarious, but this is undoubtedly the worst of the series by far.
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Совсем уж убогий триквел, снятый исключительно на складах и в котельных, причем максимально дрожащей камерой, чтобы нельзя было разглядеть убожество резиновых ящеров. Примечательно разве что тем, что рано умерший актер Рик Дин, игравший во второй части спецназовца Монка, здесь играет так же отчаянно хохмящего спецназовца Полчека. Он мне запомнился ещё по роли психа, взявшего в заложники посетителей стрипклуба.
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My favourite part was when they got stuck under empty cardboard boxes.
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I’m being told that there’s 2 more sequels in this loosely-held-together trilogy so when I can track those down I might watch them, but this ends the Carnosaur journey and though the first two were somewhat palatable, this one was just trash. Starts out with some ninjas, a quip about the residents of CA, and then a lot of nothing. The effects somehow got worse and the plot is near non-existent other than find dinos, shoot dinos. Farewell to the Carnosaur series. Perhaps we’ll meet again.
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POV you’re a raptor in an Aliens rip off pretty bad but at least kinda funny
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2026 Podcast Macabre challenge: From 1996 A steep decline from the previous entries which weren’t exactly beacons of quality themselves.
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These are the type of movies I love finding at thrift stores. The cheap looking party city raptor costumes make it 10x better.
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os mesmos defeitos do 2 (não tem mulher botando ovo nem galinhas) só que pior
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I guess I should watch the first 2 now.
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You know what? This was kinda fun, despite arguably being the cream of a bad crop in my opinion
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Weakest of the 3. Rick Dean returns which is a highlight. Gore and dinosaurs puppets/suits again are cool, but yeah it’s just lacking the same cheesy charm as the others.
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Ewwwww. Everything about this movie goes downhill from an already low standard to begin with from the previous two and it just completely prevents you from having fun with the few okay elements that you can cling to. I think the tone is just too all over the place compared to the first two that while it’s all dumb, they still played it straight where here it’s just trying to lean into the comedy too much and the camera work…
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“What the hell was that?” “It was like a lizard on steroids!” I thought the terrorist leader looked like a video game character but also somewhat familiar. In 360p he looked a bit like Jeffrey Combs. Turns out it’s just Cyril J. O’Reilly, whom you’ve definitely never heard of. But I have. In 1989 he starred in Dance of the Damned which was about a vampire propositioning a stripper to die by being his next meal. It was actually alright…
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Scooby Doo qui rencontre Alien et Jurassic Park. Le morceau de viande comme appat. Attention, il fait noir devant des bay vitré. chu capable de chauffer des ti-bateaux -le wannabe john cena. Quote : des gonses dans leur semaine. mysoginie/5. Costume “d’indien” pour village people. Costume “d’indien” pour village people. RIP de la toune de prédateur. Polcheck, misogyne et homophobe (Merci pour tout Polcheck). Masculiniste, mansplainer et inutile dans le fond. Les arabes découpent le monde. Pas l’temps pour la…
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Love the “best of the best” military fartknockers that farted there way the movie with shitty one liners and terrible jokes/stereotypes….after a gang of super dumb terrorists steal the wrong truck filled with dinosaurs and even more stupider sheriffs with a racist chief become Dino chow…..I wouldn’t trust anyone of these idiots to take my order at McDonald’s…..drink alcohol….maybe it’ll help
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La trilogia (almeno quella ufficiale) si chiude completando il processo di militarizzazione iniziato col secondo capitolo che però comporta il dazio di un appiattimento generale. Truppone di soldati farcito di personaggi anonimi e privo di volti noti, si limitano a sparacchiare e – quanto meo – fare da carne da macello. Manco a dirlo il meglio resta la quota esploitativa legata ai dinosauri che però passano per un trattamento al ribasso, dal minutaggio più contenuto a qualche momento di confusione visiva di troppo.
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Le film est incroyable, le scénario est au fraise, les costumes de dinosaures sont tout gonflés.. c’est parfait.
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After aping ‘Aliens’ for the second installment, it was time to modernize the dinos in 1996. It is very obvious from which Italian-American director who was rising fast in popularity in the 90’s all the “quippy” dialogue was ripped from. There really is a lack of characters you can root for, and I found myself just wishing they would shut their mouths a lot. Then again you see the lizards a good amount and a lot of the gore is…
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They turned up the action in this one but everything else is way way down. I’m just happy The American Dinosaur Association was there to make sure no dinos were harmed.
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How did you find a way to force a 4th movie😭
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This third CARNOSAUR is the one I remember most from childhood, and this rewatch was solid. Kinda feels like a blend between PREDATOR and ALIENS with a platoon of specialists who bring tons of guns to fight a buncha loose Carnosaurs, but also need to get a specimen for science purposes. It’s paced well, the cast is fine and they keep the action up. The score was exciting, too (and even rips-off Silversti’s PREDATOR theme). Additionally, the cinematography made me…
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I appreciate the porn guitar arm wrestling music.
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A proper carnosnore. A cardboard box factory, costume-shop solider flick sprinkled with some dino action. Not nearly enough dino action, mind, but there is a bit hidden in here. To Remember: The one without construction equipment, Monk > Polchek Quotes: Hey Serg, I need to take a wiz. This is the army, we don’t make stops for calls of nature. You’re not riding in my jeep with that haircut, son. What can I say? Squirrel cops. I ask for uranium and…
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This one really wanted to be funny
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I’ve watched all three Carnosaur films in less than 24 hours now, and I can definitively say that both sequels are superior to the original. That’s mostly an indictment of the poor quality of the first movie, but it’s still nice too see that Roger Corman has the capacity to improve. The third installment plays mostly like a rehash of the second. Corman and Winfrey seem to have recognized what made the second movie more enjoyable than the first, because…
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Ninja Terrorist Leather Mafia Boss vs. U.S.A.’s Marine Corp vs. Your Local Constable’s Office vs. The Dinocalypse! Step right up, pick your fighter and place your bets! Of course the homophobic, misogynistic boys in the room don’t understand the asexual man-eaters, but I do, baby, I do. You got my full support. Take ’em all down, protocol. ✊️😤 “What the hell’s going on here?!” “We heard gunshots and then we caught this guy running down the street like a maniac.” ” … What you got him gagged for?” 2.5/5
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It was so boring I fell asleep halfway through, maybe because I ate 3 delicious meat sandwiches. It looks the director needed some cash and called his friends over to film a movie with some dinosaur costumes he’d been saving since the last film.
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🦖 Carnosaur 3 🦖 ➡️ Le film dure 1h25, mais j’en ai ressenti 3. Les costumes sont indéfendables. La musique est un plagiat de Predator. Pas de décors, aucun travail de photo, le casting est à la hauteur des dialogues : vides. La VF n’est pas trop mal, l’action est visible malgré l’obscurité (pour cacher le manque de budget), pas d’incohérences flagrantes d’un plan à l’autre. Étonnamment, dans l’interview du producteur dans les bonus, il ne parle jamais de ce film 😅
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библейская история
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This is definitely the movie I remember watching as a kid but I’m still surprised by how much I didn’t remember. Once again you don’t have to see any of the previous entries to understand this movie. I’m happy I was able to find a bootleg copy and relive some childhood memories. #8
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Hooptober 12 / Triassic Tuesdays Almost exactly like it’s predecessor but with way more corny jokes and unlikable characters. At least the kills keep this fairly fun.
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The dinosaur puppets look ok… when they’re in the dark… and not moving too much… and the shot doesn’t last more than a second
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THIS WAS SO FUNNY! MAFIA MAN VS DINO HUNTERS VS DINOS
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Why did I watch this?
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Carnosaur 3: Primal Species scrapes the bottom of the dino barrel with a one-star performance that’s barely watchable even for fans of bad movies. The acting is wooden to the point of parody, the plot is so dull it feels like a punishment, and every dinosaur attack is a visual assault thanks to relentless shaky cam, motion blur, and bizarre negative filters that make it nearly impossible to tell what’s going on. The only thing resembling a redeeming quality is the return of the stiff, rubbery dinosaur puppets—cheap-looking, sure, but at least they’re visible. Even die-hard Carnosaur completionists will struggle to justify sitting through this mess.
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Ending the marathon with a whimper but we’ll be back once Primitive War is out. These Carnosaur movies just kept getting worse and worse but for whats worth it wasn’t a sharp decline and they still maintain some decent practical effects esp for gore stuff
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simultaneously the best and worst £1 i’ve spent in a charity shop a god awful movie. wasn’t aware it was part of a trilogy. has simply made me want to watch Carnosaur 1 and 2 now to see how utterly awful they may also be 1 star because i’ve seen worse dinosaur films..
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“You ain’t draggin’ me around anymore! Ya know why? You’re dead. You shit! Son of a bitch!” **fires four rounds into cheap rubber suit velociraptor** Ah, Carnosaur III… Three? Three?! I’ve seen three of these blasted buggers, now? Fuck me. There’ll always be someone to bitch about franchise films significantly dropping in quality, and to those who bitch, they really shouldn’t, not until they’ve sat through a Corman-financed series of DTV films where the hamstrung effects get even more hamstrung,…
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Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996) is the cinematic equivalent of ordering “steak” and being handed a microwaved hot dog. The plot is technically about a team of military commandos who accidentally stumble onto a shipment of genetically engineered dinosaurs that were supposed to be part of some shady arms deal. But the execution is so thin that you could summarize the whole story with: “Soldiers go somewhere. Dinosaurs happen.” On paper, there’s potential for so-bad-it’s-good fun: rubber dinosaur suits, clunky…
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absolutely terrible film. 1 star because i managed to laugh at how bad it was 2 times
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Et si c’était mieux que jurrasik World…
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“Le Vélociraptor est l’espèce la plus rapide sur Terre”, le raptor durant le film “cours” comme une fille à 1km/h et encore, je suis gentil…
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BBirdBoy_Machine 7 月 27, 2025
Morale : toujours lire son horoscope avant d’aller chasser du dino, toujours
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No way they made a 3rd one, unfortunately, this one doesn’t emulate Alien 3 but retreads some similar themes to Aliens and Carnosaur 2
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On continue dans les visionnages estivalo-préhistoriques avec cette magnifique daube en carton pâte qui suçote Aliens mais avec des acteurs dans des costumes de dinosaure. Les répliques des personnages sont aléatoires et ce pauvre colonel doit faire des micro-AVC en permanence tellement sa bouche fait la grimace tout le film. Le seul plaisir réside dans les attaques des théropodes ninja en caoutchouc qui sont vraiment des “petites futées” (t’as la réf ?! Hein ?!?). Aucune putain d’idée de comment un…
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This was a pretty rough series to get through, not gonna lie.
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“Faites place aux Downosaures !” Rien que pour le personnage de Polcheck qui est malaisant à souhait et insupportable, et un budget au strict minimum (je pense que les repas sont les coûts les plus élevés de la production), ce nanar vaut le coup ! Et la fin dans le bateau est le summum de la médiocrité, alors que la grosse partie dans l’entrepôt était déjà d’un niveau incroyablement bas !
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Indeed… forgettable
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There should be a special rating on Letterboxd for movies so bad they’re good cause this one was great. Still can’t stop laughing
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“j’ai senti mes testicules remonter faire la bise à mes amygdales.” Que dire de plus ? Non mais sérieusement c’était rigolo mais ne vous fatiguez pas
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6.7 out of 10 “The T-Rex was genetically designed to be asexually. Born with eggs already fertilized, which allows her to reproduce indefinitely.” I’m digging this sequel a little bit more than the last, but I think I have this just a nip down from the original itself. It will be a close toss up between number one and this third installment upon rewatch. 🦖 “It’s best not to underestimate the carnosaurs intelligence as they all exhibit some human DNA.”…
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Lliloa 7 月 19, 2025
the box said if you put aliens and jurassic park in a blender then this is what you get and ive never read a more eloquent yet accurate roast of a review
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Noticeably a massive downgrade from the previous two. Honestly, the worst part is how much I hate every character in this. Some fun dinosaur scenes but they don’t go down as easy when you have to slog through so much else in the movie.
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“I asked for uranium and you gave me reptiles!” Somehow the dreck that was Carnosaur 2 made enough money on VHS that they came out with another a year later. This movie is immediately more interesting than its counterpart (largely because some of it was shot in the daylight!) with a quickly edited opening about a team of assassins that take out military convoy, only to find that their prize is…a bunch of random hungry dinosaurs which quickly eat them.…
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They keep getting worse, but at least they are short! They definitely lean into the camp here, which is kind of nice sometimes. But while this is generally bad, it is still loads better than Wonder Woman starring Gal Gadot.
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Bottom of the barrel shit. Crazy how few really good dinosaur movies there are besides the big one
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MARATHON DINOSAURE Bon, arrivé au troisième film Carnosaur, faut pas s’attendre à trouver du sang frais. On a droit à un grand bol de vide : scénario répétitif, personnages insipides, répliques aléatoires et montage aux fraises. Au moins, ils ont gardé les dinos en caoutchouc et ça, ça fait plaisir !
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Worst lighting out of any of these, but that’s not my problem: Justina Vail nearly beat Rick Dean in an arm wrasslin’ contest & it should’ve happened. Tapped that man out like Bob Backland using that chicken wing submission. And besides the patented “cut & run” bad editing this series is known for, Dean was funny as hell here.
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A Jurassic list Oh Corman… As lil sliver of late 90s comedic Corman shlock it has some semblance of entertainment value but all the charm of the previous entry is almost entirely lost with this one. Whereas Carno 2 was more than happy to indulge us in some low budget dino goodness this almost feels embarrassed that their reusing all the propers they’ve been using since ‘93 and as such anytime they appear on screen the camera op begins to…
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Why do they keep changing the T. rex’s roar man TIL that the changes to Crichton’s Lost World novel aren’t as drastic as they could’ve been.
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Every other cut in this movie is done the same way they edit Danny Glover swinging around his huge gun in Predator 2 when he’s in the cemetery.
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“It’s like some kind of Friday the 13th nightmare!” Kind of doubles down on the Aliens-esque military characters and plot that I didn’t love from the previous entry, and the dinosaurs are looking bad again, but at least the direction is decently well directed.
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I might say this is my fav Carnosaur movie. It’s not technically as good as 2, but the bad one liners, frequent action, and cheap looking dinos make it entertaining trash.
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Самая не скучная часть. Кадры с неоном красным и синим всё ещё стиль. Велосипедозавры когда в кино?
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They got all the stuff from the second one and just reused for this installment that feels like Counter Strike or a Commando movie mixed with fake rubber suits. Thankfully this was the last official one but wish it was as exploitative like the first one but on par with the second one. Average, slow, but only worth it to see a T-Rex animatronic explode like a giant chunky balloon…
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No I don’t think I’m better than you for having seen Carnosaur 3 when you haven’t, some people are just blessed.
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FFrancisco Lacerda 4 月 23, 2025
DVD This one has plenty of original dinosaur action going on, the only issue is that it’s peppered with snoozy moments. This concludes the Easter CARNOSAURATHON. 🦖🥚
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Synchro von 1996, 77 Minuten Im letzten Teil der von Corman produzierten Dino-Schlachtplatte dringt eine Spezialeinheit in ein Fabrikgelände ein, wohin ein LKW entführt wurde, dessen Frachtgut gefrässige Reptilen waren, die nun frei rumlaufen und jeden killen der sie jagt. Guter Horror-Trash von der schlichten Sorte, dessen Story sich ständig wiederholt, dessen Darsteller fast alle unsympathisch sind, dessen Actionszenen und Kreaturen dennoch für nötige Kurzweil sorgen.
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F
Although not much has changed from the second chapter, this film has a good dose of action and dinosaurs, too bad it doesn’t really make sense since it’s nothing new compared to the previous films.
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W
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B
one of the most sauceless movies ever sadly 😔
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J
L’attaque des caoutchoucosaures 🦖
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A
Ricardo, antes de me julgares, a vida é minha. Se eu quero gastar o meu precioso tempo a ver Carnosauros 3: Espécie Primal, eu vou ver Carnosauros 3: Espécie Primal! Sim, parece que custou um aperto de mão e um café, mas é divertido sempre que os dinossauros aparecem. No final, eles metem c4 na boca do trex e a cabeça dele explode, como é que achas que eu podia não gostar disto?? Armwrestling scene; Polcheck; Marine’s guy gets head eaten scene;
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A
They blew up a t-rex’s head. Good stuff.
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T
Monk is now a dumb donkey. Whole movie is a dumb donkey. This goes the loud, fast, and dumb route of trying to amp up a big step down of a retread of 2. Adds a ton of b action movie padding that is just really shoddy and makes the absence of poorly lit chomping dinos exasperating.
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enjoyment: 69% rawRating: 68.595% finalRating: 5% grade: J – : Junk rank: 699/726
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P
Another Carnosaur movie? Well this one wasn’t half bad at least. There was some fun dinosaur action and some goofy villains and military people’s but this one was just slightly forgettable. The raptors were pretty funny here and the guy who thought he was buying uranium and got dinosaurs wasn’t even mad, but who would be? 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
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L
A really fun mid budget Roger Corman creature feature, weird janky rubber suited dinosaurs and editing and lighting that hurt my eyes. A delightful time in that mid budget B movie way.
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P
Looks like a Friday the 13th nightmare!!! Aside from the seldom cool gore FX we get this might be one of the most deeply unserious third entry in a series I’ve yet to see
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A much better film than the 2nd. Still not as good as the first, but manages a lot of random car explosions and incredible acting.
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A
Looking back at my review of Carnosaur 2, and I have to say I was way too hard on it. That one is at least a competent Aliens rip-off. This is just a total mess of different armed groups going to the same tiny warehouse and getting chomped by velociraptors and a super stealthy T-Rex. I do love how they show even more of the Dino’s this time and how rubbery and grotesque they look by this point. It all ends on a boat and sadly doesn’t have a T-Rex vs. Heavy machinery finale like the other ones.
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As referências a “Alien o Resgate” continuam, mas dessa vez é um filme muito mais genérico e cheio de personagens desinteressantes.
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people keep blaming The Bourne series for ruining action films with their usage of shaky cam, when in reality they should blame Carnosaur 3
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G
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Shouldn’t there be six or seven Carnosaurs by now? Terrorists knocking over a military convoy unleash velociraptors at a California seaport. Spec-ops called in to contain through firepower are stifled by a scientist demanding a live specimen. Sound familiar? Not the only shade of Cameron and a bit McTiernan. A baited net, proximity sensors, ambush inside pipe-strewn interiors, and one pissed mother’s nest all recall their ’80s classics. Of course not in the same stratosphere and even shaky for a…
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Horror x 52 2025 Challenge – Prompt #26: Physical Media These movies are so stupid, but I love the Carnosaurs. I get super happy whenever one is on screen. They are just so goofy and funny, especially when they run. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen as much as I would like in part 3. There’s still some fun and dinosaur carnage to be had though, so I think this one’s worth a watch.
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B
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D
Wow. It’s hard for the third of movie of series to do something new. Carnosaur 3 borrows from Pedator 2, so you tell me any other movie that’s done that. The movie is craptastic and really low budget, but its less than 90 minutes and I had had fun and what more could you want.
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carno-sweep. Even for its grandness the threequel seems to really embrace misogyny. truly a tragedy for the generations of carno-heads to come. The dinos were great be it not ventilation dwellers this time. And the gore but kills not so.
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J
Imagine if the dinosaurs were escaped insane asylum patients in dinosaur costumes. 😂
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the dialogue is trash, the ADR is bad, the camera work is occasionally good. this is like a Joel Silver movie if Joel Silver had been hit in the head a whole bunch. Carnosaur 3: Primal Species walked so Future War could, uh, also walk🤷🦖
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I’d never thought I’d hear someone say my soldiers are not trained for hand to hand combat with a dinosaur 🤣
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B
I like it, but a downgrade from the previous entries Still has the ridiculousness, but less gory effects. Carnosaur 3 is good.
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The best of the Carnosaur series. Imagine Sci-Fi channel pre-CGI and add Roger Corman factory vibes. Worth it to see a raptor punched in the face. Suck it Jurassic Park.
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Rarely has a movie gone over a cliff this hard. All the budget clearly got blown on the opening scene with the ambush of the military convoy; the remainder turns into total incoherence, including the near-extermination of most of the characters and an entirely new cast showing up just stood there in a corridor saying “Hello sir, we were sent as reinforcements”. Likewise, the carnosaur itself reverts from an OK-when-briefly-glimpsed effect to something barely better than someone running around in one of those cheap inflatable T-Rex suits.
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Carnokino is back on the menu. In some ways Carnosaur 3 is better than 2, it has an original, if not pretty generic, plot and isn’t just trying to rip-off Aliens and has more on screen dino action (with the funny looking suits for 2 returning), though whoever decided that most of the kills needed to be shot in black and white or in slowmo needed to be fired. The movies attempt at witty banter between the soldiers is pretty…
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Riding on the high that Jurassic Park created, the makers of Carnosaur sought to exploit people’s love of dinosaurs with a low budget series, and this installment is no different. Except in this one, it’s like someone said “hey, what if we took the concepts from Jurassic Park, and then added in a bunch of misogyny, military going after “terrorists” (think Team America but not satirizing it) and then have them all stuck on a boat with not one, not…
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T
Sure it’s not as good as 1 or 2 but dang it I still love it. They got more inventive this time around with the story since they couldn’t copy Aliens.
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Nearly turned this off when they killed the hot sassy terrorist guy thats the thing that hooked me into watching this
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🎃 Terrible Terror 🎃 – #8/31 Another instance where I had inadvertently skipped over previous instalments in a series. This film is known in the UK (or at least my copy) as just Primal Species. I’m not not sure how much it would have helped if I saw the first two films in this series, especially because it was fairly obvious early on just how cheap and irreverent this film is. As expected, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996) is simply…
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G
Just bad honestly, the worst of the trilogy so far, I don’t have much to say about it, not fun to watch at all
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C
This is…low-key the best one so far? Don’t get me wrong, it’s still low budget shlock, but it has more self awareness than the other two and I laughed quite a few times. It’s definitely not beating the Aliens clone accusations though, this one takes that idea established in the last movie and runs away with it, straight into a raptor’s mouth.
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F
Kinda refreshing that this entry only borrows 50% of the plot of Aliens. I love these dumb, rubbery dino flicks. I think they only had one raptor suit this time which they keep reusing for every attack scene and a barely functional T. rex? Anyways Corman was the best at squeezing out genre turds that tastes like buttery garlic. Still waiting for Vinegar Syndrome to drop a 4K boxset of the trilogy!
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C
Laientheater mit Gummisauriern.
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G
It can be entertaining, but best recommended view with friends to roast how terrible it is, but there is that lost charm with B films that you don’t see anymore post 20th century.
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R
Carnosaur 3 is a waste of time. It’s more interested in giving us unfunny and dated comedy than it is in showing us the goofy dinosaur shit that we tuned in for. The few times we actually see the dinosaurs are plagued by blurry cinematography that often makes it hard to even see them. Rick Dean from Carnosaur 2 is back and playing essentially the same obnoxious character again, and he’s the only actor that I remember anything about. There…
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Watched on DVD.
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A
None of these movies are interconnected at all, and that’s a good thing. They’re all vastly different, and this one is no exception. This leans more towards the B-movie action genre. The acting fluctuates between terrible and over the top. The budget is far smaller than the previous entries, but more animatronic and practical effects would have made it stellar.
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T
The previous was bad but at least it was somewhat enjoyable here we are back to where we started but it’s somehow even worse. This is a cheaply put together film the gore effects are all right but the cameraman seems to sleep every 5 minutes so it’s hard to really enjoy them. This film is disastrously Incompetent it’s easily the worst film in this collection of films technically there are more films in this franchise raptor and eden but…
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Dinosaur Week 2024 First Time Watches Watched via YouTube Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, released in 1996, is the third film in the Carnosaur series, once again produced by Roger Corman. Carnosaur 3 was the first Carnosaur film released in the UK, but was just called Primal Species. This was a little bit better then the first film, but not by much. This definitely had a lower budget then the first two, but it didn’t confuse me like the first, and…
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i like when the dinosaur 🙂
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I have stared at this for a while, thinking, what do I write? What words does Carnosaur 3: Primal Species conjure in my mind? And mostly it’s just been the word “boring”. It’s not the worst thing I’ve seen, at the start there are some neat explosions, so that’s cool. I think Rick Dean, who was one of the better things about the last one, is also one of the better things here. It’s just nice when actors inject a…
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Cheap 90s movie. Men in rubbish rubbery dino costumes attacking soldiers. Great stuff 👏
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G
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J
A rare cinematic anomaly. Back to back sequels to a franchise with the same actor (Rick Dean) playing a completely different character in each one. There’s actually TWO repeat actors in these. The other one is the guy who played Stuart on MADtv.
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Trash. Maybe I would have given it a better rating if I wasn’t looking at magic cards on my cell phone, but I highly doubt it.
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S
Great kills lots of blood a great straight to DVD sequel
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G
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R
The occasional smirk-inducing one-liners and accidental moments of decent cinematography are the only things saving this film from being an insult to the medium entirely. The film looks terrible, trudges through a nonsensical plot with awful characters, and features some of the worst creature effects I’ve ever seen. Despite the crews’ best efforts to conceal the dinosaurs in darkness, fog, and shaky cam there was no hiding from the reality that Primal Species is just plain terrible.
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C
The most forgettable of the “Carnosaur” films. The first two were just cheaply-made copies of better action movies. But this one isn’t even copying anything better.
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S
No mesmo nível do segundo,mas dessa vez traz situações ainda mais bizarras e um elenco totalmente desprezivo.O gore aqui é bem mais intenso que os anteriores,mas nada que melhore a situação.
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Not as good as previous 2 films but it’s still some mindless fun. Rick Dean steals the show, he’s absolutely hilarious. The brilliant dinosaur puppets return. Similar vibes to Aliens at times, just like Carnosaur 2. It often feels like a cheaper retelling of 2. Just an absolute cheesefest from start to finish. Biggest complaint is that it’s overly sexist. Recommend watching if you’re looking for a fun dinosaur b movie, or a fan of the other entries!
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Bought this from a shady video store in 2002, got nightmares about dinosaurs eating people in the truck for the rest of my life, especially that gnarly t-Rex roar, honest to G*d, that is the most horrific and awesome roar I have heard in my life next to Jurassic Park I’s. They should make a Dino crisis 1 movie that’s like this too (I played that game as a child, which was my generation’s Five Nights at Freddy’s) 10/10
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M
As is it tradition, I did not watch the previous 2 movies before this one
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C
Not a bad third entry, but not great either.
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K
Everybody Walk The Dinosaur! #7 You just had to squeeze one more Carnosaur film out didn’t you Corman? Couldn’t have left well enough alone, we just needed a Carnosaur 3. I hope you’re happy. This sucks ass. It’s a cheaply put together product made purely to try and get just a smidgeon more profit out of this series. It looks cheap, it feels cheap, it’s so lifeless. The Dino effects are about on par with the second, but the cameraman spazzes…
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I love this shit, I don’t care. Not only that… I’m making the bold statement that it’s objectively good. Sure, the Dino’s never look “real”, but they always look fun. This isn’t Jurassic Park (though I’d watch this over almost every sequel to that), but it never tries to be. Yeah the characters definitely do not seem like a real military force, but uh… idk how to tell you this: Movies aren’t supposed to be real. Nor do they have…
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Menudo montón de mierda.
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BBränna Mellanstad 1 月 1, 2021
DATE IS INCORRECT – will edit to the correct date in 2016-2022
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Rating: 2/5 Watching Carnosaur 3: Primal Species felt like a cheap direct-to-video action-horror sequel that shifts even further away from horror atmosphere and more into low-budget military creature chaos. The story follows terrorists accidentally unleashing stolen dinosaurs in a city, leading to armed confrontations and attempts to contain the creatures before more destruction occurs. The film focuses mostly on shootouts, pursuit sequences, and dinosaur attacks, with very little suspense or character depth. What stands out is how stripped-down it feels…
- Synopsis
- International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
- Director
- Jonathan Winfrey
- Writer
- Scott Sandin
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 85 mins
- Germany21 Nov 1996
- USA12 Nov 1996
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