Curse of the Komodo

Curse of the Komodo
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Directed by	Jim Wynorski
Written by	Steve Latshaw
Produced by	Sam A. Hasass Alison Semenza
Starring	Tim Abell Melissa Brasselle William Langlois Gail Harris Paul Logan Glori-Anne Gilbert Ted Monte Cam Newlin Jay Richardson J.P. Davis Richard Gabai
Release date	2004 (2004)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States

Curse of the Komodo is a 2004 American

An experiment on an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean results in the enlargement of a group of komodo dragons. However, the dragons break free, and kill most of the scientists, the only survivor being Rebecca Phipps, whose father Nathan is part of the program on land. Later, a military team is dispatched to kill the dragons, although all are killed except soldiers Hanson and Jason Blake, who hide in Rebecca's private house with an electric gate. Nathan and his colleague and girlfriend Dawn Porter are soon sent to rescue the survivors.

On an island in

Later that night, Reece, who had come in contact with the komodo's saliva earlier, slowly becomes infected. The komodo returns and the men desperately attempt to fight it off. An infected Reece walks outside and is eaten by the komodo, which heads back into the jungle. The next day, Nathan becomes fed up with Foster's negotiations, and convinces the group to make a break for the helicopter, which Jack reveals was never damaged. During the trip to the helicopter, Tiffany and Hanson were killed and Nathan becomes infected, slowly turning into a zombie. The group soon reaches the helicopter, although encounter the komodo. Nathan sacrifices himself by distracting the komodo long enough to allow Jack, Dawn, Drake, and Rebecca to reach the helicopter.

On land, Foster initiates a bombing of the entire island in order to eliminate witnesses of the experiment's creations. The survivors are about to take off, although Drake goes back for a bag containing the casino money, which he had left behind. The bombing soon occurs, forcing Jack, Dawn and Rebecca to take off, leaving Drake on the island. Upon learning that three survivors have escaped the island, Foster commits suicide. On the island, Drake is revealed to have survived the bombing, also is soon eaten by a group of komodo offspring.

Cast

• Tim Abell as Jack
• Gail Harris as Dawn Porter
• Melissa Brasselle as Tiffany
• Paul Logan as Drake
• Jay Richardson as Foster
• Cam Newlin as Reece
• Glori-Anne Gilbert as Rebecca Phipps
• Ted Monte as Hanson
• William Langlois as Nathan Phipps
• J.P. Davis
  as Jason Blake
• Arthur Roberts as Detective
• Richard Gabai as Jeffries
• Daryl Haney as Finton
• Scott Fresina as Hotel Guest
• Buck Flower as The Cashier
• Robert Donavan as Hotel Manager
• Rob Sanchez as Security Guard
• Benjamin Sacks as Military Liaison

Production

The film had its origins when Wynorski was shooting the film Treasure Hunt in Hawaii. He says he "took three of the actors to a secluded waterfall location on their day off and shot what would become the first segment of Curse. Later, when I returned to Los Angeles, Steve Latshaw wrote the entire script based on segment I had already shot on location. It all turned out rather fun; so much so that they asked me to do a sequel. I said I would do it provided they sent myself and the entire cast to Hawaii to film it...which they did."^[2]

Reception

Critical reception was mostly negative.^[3][4][5]

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