Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) on Netflix
Tammy's boyfriend Michael Brock is chased into an animal park by her ex-boyfriend Billy and his gang. A lion mauls him. A mad scientist needs a human brain for his robotic Tyrannosaurus.
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Plot summary
Tammy is a cheerleader at her high school, where her new boyfriend, Michael Brock, comes to watch her practice after his football session. Her friend Byron Black approves of him, but Billy, her jealous ex-boyfriend, turns up with his gang and starts a fight with Michael that the police break up. That night Michael sneaks out to meet her, and Billy and his thugs catch him, tossing him into a park where lions and jaguars roam. Michael is mauled and lies comatose in a hospital, watched over by his drunk uncle. In a dark warehouse, Dr. Gunther Wachenstein and his assistant Helga examine a robotic Tyrannosaurus and discuss giving it a living human brain.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
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- Stewart Raffill wrote the script in a week after a South American theater owner offered him an animatronic T-Rex that was due to be shipped to a Texas park; the man had no story but needed filming to start within the month.
- The film was shot as an R-rated comedy horror, but its gore scenes were removed from the initial American release to appeal to a broader audience; in countries such as Italy it was released with those scenes intact.
- A large fire broke out during the shoot, and director Stewart Raffill said that smoke from it can be seen in some shots of the finished film.
