Komodo - The Living Terror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Komodo - The Living Terror |
| Original title | Komodo |
| Country of production | Australia , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Lantieri |
| script |
Hans Bauer Craig Mitchell |
| production |
Alan Ritchie Tony Ludwig |
| music | John Debney |
| camera | David Burr |
| cut | Michael Fallavollita |
| occupation | |
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Komodo - The Living Terror (alternatively Komodo - Die Dracheninsel or Komodo ) is an American film by Michael Lantieri from 1999. The production is so far Lantieri's only directorial work.
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A hippie releases a box of unidentified reptile eggs on Emerald Island off the coast of South Carolina . 19 years later, 15-year-old Patrick Connally is traveling with his parents to the said island, where the family owns a cottage . One night there he witnessed "beasts" tearing his parents apart.
Since then, the psychiatrist Victoria has been taking care of the physically unstable Patrick. To help Patrick, she wants to travel to that island with him again. Victoria, Patrick and his aunt Annie (who doesn't think Victoria's plan is a good idea) cross over to the island with the help of the ferryman and Patrick's friend Martin Gris. The group wants to spend the night in the house in which Patrick's parents died. But then there is an attack on the group by a Komodo dragon , as a result of which any help comes too late for Annie. Victoria and Patrick, however, are initially able to flee. On their escape, they first meet Martin Gris. He had gone to help them and was seriously injured by the monitor lizard himself. They later come across Oates and his partner Denby. Oates works for Bracken, the boss of an oil company. Both have traveled to the island to kill the monitor lizards on behalf of Bracken, but they do not tell the others at first. During this encounter, Patrick suddenly disappears. The group soon discovered that the whole island was now populated by the monitor lizards. Oates tries to organize help for the others, but this is prevented by his client Bracken, who wants to keep the disaster on Emerald Island a secret.
The group sets off and finds shelter in one of Oates and Denby's hiding places. Once there, Gris succumbs to his injuries. Victoria happens to overhear a conversation between Oates and Bracken. Oates then explains to her that the animals are Komodo dragons whose natural food sources have been destroyed so that they are now hunting people. Shortly afterwards, Denby is bitten in the throat by a Komodo dragon. He still manages to kill the Komodo dragon, but dies a little later in the arms of Oates. He later tells Victoria the whole truth: Oates was innocently suspected of murdering his wife. Because the police held on to him as a suspect despite Oates' innocence, it was easy for Bracken to blackmail him: Bracken promised Oates that he would help him escape if he in return kills the Komodo dragons on Emerald Island.
Victoria and Oates go in search of Patrick and find him in an old sewage treatment plant. There they have to take on a few Komodo dragons before they can get to Patrick. It turns out that Patrick blames himself for the death of his parents. Victoria can convince him of the opposite. Then they are attacked by a Komodo dragon, whereupon Oates apparently sacrifices himself by igniting leaking oil with a lit cigar. In anger, Victoria kills the Komodo dragon, which initially survived the oil fire. Oates also survived the fire. After Bracken came to the island in a helicopter, Oates took the helicopter. He leaves Bracken and his men behind to save Patrick and Victoria from a Komodo dragon. All three manage to escape from the island and Patrick has recovered.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film for this horror film: "An animal horror film that is as self-confident as it is ignorant in the tradition of B-Pictures and has nothing else in mind than to deliver horror trash cultivated with solid trick technology." In contrast to this, the The magazine Cinema criticized it : "This clumsy feast, with simply tricked 'monsters', the absurd story about a lousy oil company and the annoying psycho cheese are wrong to say the least."
Web links
- Komodo - The Living Terror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Komodo - The Living Terror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/komodo,1329641,ApplicationMovie.html