Jane Tiptree is at the heart of what makes Carnosaur a horror film, and it’s part of a long tradition, beginning with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), of showing humans meddling with nature, thus profoundly transgressing the status quo and the dictates of law (natural, divine, and human). (It doesn’t.) So what makes Carnosaur a horror film? Besides gore, in which this film is awash! While he says he suspects that Jurassic Park will be a better movie with better dinosaurs (It is!), he questions whether the soon-to-be blockbuster will have “any humans as interesting” as Jane Tiptree.
Tiptree “one of the craziest characters we’ve ever seen in a movie” (and he meant that in a good way). While Ebert gave the film (despite Ladd’s performance) a thumbs-down, Siskel gave it a (marginal) thumbs-up, calling Dr. You might be forgiven for thinking that some of the finer points of Tiptree’s scheme are a little illogical-and my advice would be, well, to enjoy and not overthink it!ĭiane Ladd as the mad scientist steals the show, as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert agreed in their review of the film. Tiptree’s plan, it turns out, is to wipe out the human race for their sins, creating a new and more worthy species (genetically-modified dinosaurs) to continue life on earth. Jane Tiptree, a woman whom one male character calls “the fairy godmother of military biotech.” Tiptree has been sequestered away, working to create a hybrid race of dinosaurs to whose eggs women give birth right before they die. While not as good a film as Jurassic Park, Carnosaur is vastly more interesting, especially for horror fans.Ĭarnosaur is a crazy film-and while it’s currently not easy to find, it’s worth the effort to try to get your hands on it. Carnosaur was released on May 21, 1993, just four weeks before Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park-and it bears some resemblance to its big-budget competitor. Carnosaur, on the other hand, a low-budget Roger Corman production, is unequivocally a horror film. In, I argued that Disney / Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur (2015) is not only not horror but represents an explicitly anti-horror project. Dinosaur movies are typically categorized as horror films, but not all of them are-and so I thought I’d use two intriguing-in-their-own-right dinosaur films as part of my ongoing exploration of what makes a horror film.
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