Tammy and the T-Rex. Stewart Raffill, 1993.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #300, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: Implication of shooting animals.
Details:
1) A lion is mauling a man, and a game warden intervenes by shooting the lion, 21:49-21:52. We do NOT see the lion shot. We see the game warden lift and rifle, then hear gun fire during a cut to the next scene.
2) While searching for the dinosaur in a small barn (hmmm), the evil scientist is startled by a chicken and shoots his tranquilizer gun at the bird, 1:22:02. This is a very confusing scene visually because in the space of half a second we see the flying chicken and what appears to be a splatter of blood against the wall; but the bright red plume actually is the feathered stabilizer of the tranquilizer dart, which did NOT hit the bird.
3) Soon after this the T-Rex is “killed” in a hail of police gun fire. Dialogue immediately afterward comedically explains that this makes no sense, as the dinosaur is mechanical and would not, could not, slowly be brought down and collapse on the floor . . .
The potential depictions of violence to animals in this film all resolve to be non-issues. But sticking to the objective of this project, could an unexpecting viewer be upset or taken by surprise by the apparently-shot chicken? Yes.
This Vinegar Syndrome release is the first time Tammy and the T-Rex has been available uncut with its substantial violent gory deaths intact. VS also includes the heavily-edited “family” version that was a video store staple in the 1990s.