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| Directed by | Dan Bishop, Will Raee (2nd Unit) |
| Written by | Dan Bishop Shlomo May-Zur |
| Produced by | Stephan Galfas Mosh Moe Grunberg Shlomo May-Zur |
| Starring | Jana Mashonee Lorenzo Lamas Cody Vaughn Lexy Hulme Donny Boaz Cole Brown Marcus M. Mauldin Rowdy Arroyo Kimberly Matula Declan Joyce Jack Gould Carrie Newell Inges Brigman Al Burke |
| Cinematography | Clint Childers |
| Edited by | Dory Lubliner Christopher Roth Ryan Williams |
| Music by | Evan Frankfort |
Production company | Nu Imagination |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,500,000 (estimated) |
Raptor Ranch (also known asThe Dinosaur Experiment[1]) is a 2012science fictionhorrorcomedy film written and directed by Dan Bishop. Produced by Stephan Galfas, Mosh Moe Grunberg and Shlomo May-Zur, it starsJana Mashonee andLorenzo Lamas.
A modern-dayTexas community is overrun by vicious prehistoricraptors and a group of people try to survive the raptor onslaught at acattle ranch.[2]
In Fossil Ridge, Texas, a reclusive, Dr. Cane experimenting withbirdDNA, managed to create several species ofcarnivorous dinosaurs. One of them gets loose and causes a string of killings, drawing the attention of the police and theFBI who send two agents to investigate.
Abbi Whitecloud, a waitress and aspiring singer whose mother was one of the casualties, is forced to work for her demanding boss, Eddie Wayne to pay off a debt. Entering Fossil Ridge are college buddies Sheldon, Lucas, and "Manbeast", who run out of gas, and touring band Little Willie and the Willettes, who suffer engine trouble. Abbi agrees to take Sheldon and Manbeast to the rancher's property forgasoline. They are accompanied by Willie's drummer, Kolin. The rancher suffers a heart attack and Manbeast is devoured after accidentally releasing the rest of the dinosaurs.
Abbi, Sheldon, and Kolin return to Abbi's house to find her boss there, who is subsequently eaten by aT-rex. It then trashes Abbi's house while going after her and her friends. As they escape, they are chased by a pair of Megalosaurs, but Abbi is able to fend them off with a bow and arrows. They return to the gas station to find Lucas as the only survivor; Willie and Willie's band member, Josie has been killed by raptors. After attempting to escape in Willie's broken down tour bus, they are trapped by the dinosaurs and hide in a store. Kolin finds a book containing the dinosaurs' origins. Lucas is eaten by the T-rex in an attempt to fight it. A few hours later, the others escape the store and make it to a factory while the dinosaurs converge and fight one another, with theMegalosaurus emerging victorious.
The Megalosaurus tracks them to a processing plant and in the ensuing chase, Kolin and Sheldon are crushed to death by the rampaging reptile. Abbi lures the dinosaur to a different part of the factory containing flammables, pours gasoline onto the floor and ignites it, incinerating the beast. She is then taken into custody by the FBI agents, who release her and cover up the incident by attributing it to attacks by "killeremus" or "thechupacabra".
One year later, Abbi finally realizes her dream as a cabaret singer and is performing in an undisclosed nightclub. As her show wraps up, a surviving raptor appears and pounces at the screen.
Filmed on location inSt. Petersburg, Russia,Leonard andCeleste, Texas, and inLos Angeles, California.