Prehysteria! (film series)

Prehysteria is a series of three familyoriented, nonhorror, monster movie films made in the early to mid1990s about the adventures of five miniature baby dinosaurs named after famous pop musicians. The dinosaurs were Elvis, a male Tyrannosaurus Rex, Paula, a female Brachiosaurus, Jagger, a male Stegosaurus, Hammer, a male Chasmosaurus, and Madonna, a female Pteranodon. The films were made by Moonbeam Entertainment, the familyoriented subbrand of Bmovie producer Charles Bands Full Moon Entertainment. Richard Band, Michael Bishop, and Fuzzbee Morse composed the music for the movies.

The first film in the series that was released in 1993, Prehysteria tells the story of Rico Sarno, a museum curator, who enters a forbidden temple in South America, and discovers a nest of five eggs. He steals them and brings them back to his museum. Frank Taylor Brett Cullen, a farmer, sells fossils to Rico and in a mix up, the Taylors dog takes a cooler, which has the eggs. The kids, Monica Samantha Mills and Jerry Austin OBrien discover the dinosaurs when they hatch and try to keep it a secret, until their father finds out. Vicki Colleen Morris, a woman who works for Rico, sees the dinosaurs, she tells the Taylors not to give them back to Rico because he will expose them. Rico finds out the Taylors have them and hires two robbers to help him get the dinosaurs back.Prehysteriawas the sequel to the first film and was released in 1994. Mr. Cranston is a friend of the Taylors and he watches the mini dinosaurs while they are on vacation. The five miniature dinosaurs break out of the Taylors farm and accidentally get shipped into a crate of raisins. The crate is found in a box car by Naomi Jennifer Harte, a girl whose father works at the train station and a rich kid named Brendan Wellington Kevin Connors who is hiding in the box car because he is being chased by bullies who are about to attack him. When the two discover the raisin crate, they get into an argument on who should keep the dinosaurs, Brendan claiming that he saw them first and Naomi claimed them on the fact that its her box car. Brendan pays a worker for the crate knowing that the dinosaurs are inside. Brendan is unhappy because he has no friends and is desperate for attention because his father doesnt spend much time with him. Naomi and Brendan later become friends and the miniature dinosaurs help the boy get the attention he needs, and try to save him from his abusive Mistress Miss Winters who is allergic to animals. When she finds out about Brendan having pets not knowing they are dinosaurs she hire

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