Raptor (film)
Raptor is a 2001 American direct-to-video horror film directed by Jim Wynorski, produced by Roger Corman, and starring Eric Roberts, Melissa Brasselle, and Corbin Bernsen. It re-uses dinosaur footage from the Corman-produced "Carnosaur" film series, edited together with original footage shot by Wynorski. "Raptor" was produced by Corman's company New Concorde, which had worked on the "Carnosaur" films. Plot. When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a  dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde. Reception. "Psychotronic Video" wrote that the dinosaur effects "are as painfully awful" as the "Carnosaur" films. Riley Black, writing for "Smithsonian" in 2011, criticized the film's recycled footage for its lack of continuity.