| Carnosaur 2 | |
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| Directed by | Louis Morneau |
| Written by | Michael Palmer |
| Produced by | Mike Elliott |
| Starring | John Savage Cliff DeYoung Rick Dean Ryan Thomas Johnson Arabella Holzbog Don Stroud |
| Cinematography | John Aronson |
| Edited by | Roderick Davis |
| Music by | Ed Tomney |
| Distributed by | New Horizons |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Carnosaur 2 is a 1995 action horror film directed by Louis Morneau, and the sequel to the 1993 film Carnosaur. It is the second installment in the Carnosaur film series. It stars John Savage, Cliff DeYoung, Rick Dean, Ryan Thomas Johnson, Arabella Holzbog and Don Stroud. The film is about a team of technicians who go to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to investigate problems concerning power and communications. They discover that the facility has been overrun by cloned dinosaurs. The film's plot shares many similarities with the 1986 film Aliens.
Before its predecessor had completed production, Carnosaur 2 was already being planned by executive producer Roger Corman. Effects artist John Buechler returned for the sequel, which re-used his dinosaur models from the original Carnosaur. Filming took place during an 18-day shoot, including a week of filming at a power plant near Castaic Lake in California. Carnosaur 2 was released direct-to-video on February 15, 1995. It received mixed reviews; criticism was aimed at its special effects, although the cast was generally praised. The film was followed by a sequel, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, in 1996.