An evil scientist implants the brain of murdered high-school student Michael into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high-school tormentors, and reunites with his sweethear... Read allAn evil scientist implants the brain of murdered high-school student Michael into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high-school tormentors, and reunites with his sweetheart Tammy.An evil scientist implants the brain of murdered high-school student Michael into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high-school tormentors, and reunites with his sweetheart Tammy.
George 'Buck' Flower
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- TriviaWriter/director Stewart Raffill said in an interview that the idea for this film only happened because they had access to a full size T-Rex animatronic. A guy came to him who owned theatres in South America and he said he had the T-Rex that was going to a park in Texas. The eyes worked. The arms moved. The head moved. He told Rafill he wanted to use it to make a movie. Rafill asked what the story was and the guy said there wasn't one yet, but they had to start filming within the month because he only had the T-Rex for two weeks. So Rafill wrote the story in a week and worked on the script as they filmed. He even said he was constantly asking the cast and crew if they have anything better they could add.
- GoofsAlthough Denise Richards' character is named Tammy in the film, the beginning and end credits list her as "Tanny". That is the name used in the original title, "Tanny and the Teenage T-Rex", as given in the uncut version released on 4K and Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome.
- Alternate versionsIn 2017, a 35mm print of an alternate, pre-censorship cut of the film was discovered, under the title Tanny and the Teenage T-Rex. This version features the long-rumored scenes of gore and extreme violence that were sloppily edited from the film in order to attain a PG-13 rating. Scenes include various moments of excessive bloodshed and a graphic brain transplant, as well as a great deal more profanity. In total it runs six minutes longer than the cut that appeared on VHS in 1994. Vinegar Syndrome scanned and restored the film at 4K resolution, and gave it a limited theatrical re-release, and Blu-Ray/Ultra HD release in the fall of 2019.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Standing Ovation (2010)
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Written and Performed by Jaded Heart
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One of the greatest "how did they pitch this?" movies I've ever seen. I, somehow, avoided the PG-13 cut all these years and only recently witnessed the new uncut Vinegar Syndrome cut and I can't even imagine how they trimmed down this fairly gory movie into a PG-13. It's filled to the brim with Troma/early Peter Jackson style gore and the tone of the film is very similar as well.
Denise Richards seems to have a reputation as a bad actress by some, but after seeing this, I can't understand it at all, because she commits so hard to the ludicrous premise of her boyfriend's brain being transfered into a mechanical dinosaur that you just want to give her an award of some kind for all her effort. Did I mention that her boyfriend pre-brain into mechanical dinosaur is Paul Walker?
Weekend at Bernie's Terry Kiser shows up as the evil scientist who stole Walker's brain in the first place and John Franklin from Children of the Corn is his assistant and computer wiz.
Tammy and the T-Rex surprises at every turn, makes you laugh, and even makes you root for the relationship between a beautiful high schooler and a mechanical t-rex. If that's not art, I'm not sure what is.
Denise Richards seems to have a reputation as a bad actress by some, but after seeing this, I can't understand it at all, because she commits so hard to the ludicrous premise of her boyfriend's brain being transfered into a mechanical dinosaur that you just want to give her an award of some kind for all her effort. Did I mention that her boyfriend pre-brain into mechanical dinosaur is Paul Walker?
Weekend at Bernie's Terry Kiser shows up as the evil scientist who stole Walker's brain in the first place and John Franklin from Children of the Corn is his assistant and computer wiz.
Tammy and the T-Rex surprises at every turn, makes you laugh, and even makes you root for the relationship between a beautiful high schooler and a mechanical t-rex. If that's not art, I'm not sure what is.
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- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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