The Fossil in Our Stars
Get out of the way - Tammy and her boyfriend are on the loose! She's Denise Richards. He's a 12-foot-tall animatronic dinosaur. Love finds a way... through brain surgery.
This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik clear the balcony to make way for Tammy and the T-Rex! A 1994 teen romance mashed up with horror comedy where brains are transplanted, graves are robbed, accents are butchered, and a pair of crazy dinosaur arms steal the show!
Directed by Stewart Raffill and starring a pre-Wild Things Denise Richards alongside a pre-Fast & Furious Paul Walker, this bonkers cult oddity asks the question:
What if your boyfriend died…
and came back as a mechanical T-Rex…
and you were totally fine with that?
The absolutely unhinged mad scientist energy of Terry Kiser as Dr. Wachenstein
That animatronic T-Rex which was borrowed on short time!
Early-90s mall-core fashion and peak high school melodrama
The tonal whiplash between teen romance and full-on dismemberment
The R-rated "Gore Cut" rediscovery that made this movie a midnight legend
The most committed charades scene in cinematic history
Is it Jurassic Park? Is it Romeo and Juliet for the 90's?
Is it one of the strangest things we've ever covered?
Absolutely.
If you make it through this episode without asking, "Wait… why is this happening?", you might already be part dinosaur
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