Raptor Island

*Raptor Island*
Raptor Island
	DVD cover
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

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

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

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

^ Shaheen, Jack G. (2012), Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11, Interlink Books, p. 46, ISBN 978-1623710200.

External links

Raptor Island at IMDb

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[Shaheen2012-1] Shaheen, Jack G. (2012), Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11, Interlink Books, p. 46, ISBN 978-1623710200.

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