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Pterodactyl
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Approx. run time	89 min.
Genre	Television movie
Written by	Mark Sevi
Directed by	Mark L. Lester
Produced by	Dana Dubovsky Mark L. Lester
Starring	Cameron Daddo Coolio Amy Sloan George Calil
Music by	John Dickson
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
Original channel	Sci Fi Channel
Release date	August 27, 2005

Pterodactyl is a 2005 film that premiered on the Sci Fi Channel. The film is directed by Mark L. Lester.

Plot

A team of American scientists and students of science (lead by Cameron Daddo) are exploring the nature phenomena in the Turkish/Armenian border, meanwhile a group of American soldiers (lead by Coolio) are on a dangerous mission to capture a terrorist-leader.

But a far more deadly threat than terrorists are hidden in the woods, they are creatures feeding off of human flesh, flying dinosaurs known as Pterodactyls and these two very different camps have to join forces in order to escape this terror.

Cast

• Cameron Daddo as Prof. Michael Lovecraft
• Coolio as Capt. Bergen
• Amy Sloan as Kate Heinlein
• George Calil as Serling
• Steve Braun as Willis Bradbury
• Mircea Monroe as Angie Lem
• Jessica Ferrarone as Zelazny
• Todd Kramer as Clarke

Many of the characters are named after famous science-fiction and fantasy writers - Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Clarke (Sir Arthur C. Clarke), Donaldson (Steven Donaldson), Heinlein (Robert A. Heinlein), Herbert (Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert), Lem (Stanislaw Lem), Lovecraft (H.P. Lovecraft), Serling (Rod Serling), Yolen (Jane Yolen) and Zelazny (Roger Zelazny).

External links

• Pterodactyl at the Internet Movie Database
• Pterodactyl at Allmovie