Following a nasty breakup, a woman and her friend go on a hiking weekend in a particularly dreary patch of English countryside. They’re almost immediately attacked by shit-cgi pteranodons. Worried sick, her sister tracks her to where her sibling’s backpacking adventure was going down and drags four friends/acquaintances with her (among them Chrissie Wunna, who I keep seeing in these shit UK monster flicks… so I’m a fan). They arrive at the local inn and the prison-hunky innkeeper doesn’t offer much info aside from his claim that the girls left days ago and he hasn’t heard from them since. Diedre goes to the police with her concerns but gets brushed off again. Hmmmmmm. Seems like the locals may be conspiring. Frustrated, Diedre convinces her friends/acquaintances to stay the night and look for her sister in the morning. The dinos pick off some of the gals, the constable helps to keep things secret (he’s not above murdering) and there’s some bullshit about the shopkeeper and the cop being the “keepers of the wyvern”. There’s plenty of footage featuring flying dinosaurs and more than a couple laughably bad attacks by the titular beasties but every bit of it is so below par you may wonder if you accidentally popped some Quaaludes before ya sat down to watch. The gaggle of gals range from unlikable to forgettable and I’m biased towards Ms. Wunna so she may have been just as awful as our hero for all I know. It could have been fun but it seemed like nobody really gave a shit about how much the viewer would enjoy themselves. At least it had the balls to show off its creatures, no matter how inept they may be.
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