The VelociPastor (2018) on Netflix
NR20181h 15mActionAdventureComedy
After his parents die in a car fire, priest Doug Jones travels to China, where ninjas search for an artifact that turns people into the Dragon Warrior. Infected, he becomes a dinosaur.
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- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb5.1/1012,114 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
Doug Jones is a Roman-Catholic priest whose parents die in a car fire, and he travels to China on a spiritual journey. There he crosses paths with ninjas hunting an artifact that turns a person into the Dragon Warrior, and it infects him. Nightmares follow, and late one night he goes into the forest and changes into a dinosaur, rescuing Carol, who works as a prostitute, from a thug. He wakes naked in her bed with no memory of the night before and at first believes they had sex; Carol tells him what happened and suggests he use his new power to fight crime. Not persuaded, he returns to the church for confession.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The VelociPastor (2018)
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- Brendan Steere got the idea in 2010 while at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, when his phone autocorrected "Velociraptor" to "Veloci Pastor", which became the film's title.
- Steere's class project of fake exploitation trailers drew around 45,000 views, against roughly 45 views for each of his earlier YouTube videos, and that response led to the feature film.
- After two failed crowdfunding attempts between 2011 and 2016, first on Kickstarter and then on Seed&Spark, the film was funded by a private investor known to the mother of one of Steere's friends.
- The feature was shot for a budget of $36,000, and Steere has said he was influenced by director Guillermo del Toro.
