History Film / TyrannosClaw

In prehistoric-era Korea (approximately around the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeulmun_pottery_period Jeulmun pottery period]]) exists a Dark Tribe of cavemen who worships their god, a fearsome, man-eating ''Tyrannosaurs rex'', which they regularly sacrifice prisoners to as food for appeasement. When a young cave maiden managed to escape with a tribal warrior who went rogue, they manage to befriend a second, far more benevolent nomadic tribe, but the Dark tribe starts coming after the main characters.

In prehistoric-era Korea (approximately around the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeulmun_pottery_period Jeulmun pottery period]]) exists a Dark Tribe of cavemen who worships their God, a fearsome, man-eating T-Rex, which they regularly sacrifice prisoners as food for appeasement. When a young cave maiden managed to escape with a tribal warrior who went rogue, they manage to befriend a second, far more benevolent nomadic tribe, but the Dark tribe starts coming after the main characters.

Besides cavemen hacking people to bits, there's also dinosaurs of assorted varieties from the above-mentioned T-Rex, to a nest of pterosaurs and a friendly mother Triceratops, all of them portrayed by animatronics that 1994 Korea can afford. Yeah, imagine ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' (in fact this movie was released a year ''after'' the first ''Jurassic Park'' film, and back then was accused as a cash-in) made with a fraction of the budget. And somehow, it's still entertaining, though in a cheesier way than intended.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The mother triceratops, a GentleGiant who is content with playing with the humans until [[spoiler:the Dark Tribe minions kills the young cave-boy and tries threatening the baby triceratops]]. Cue the mother triceratops going on a rampage and graphically mauling more than one human enemy to death, with bloody results.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The bumbling caveman (played by the director, Shim Hyung-rae) who's introduced as the movie's FatComicRelief, stumbles everywhere he goes, and a massive ButtMonkey subjected to most of the movie's slapstick moments, including getting captured alive by the Dark Tribe, [[spoiler:is the one character who kills the Dark Tribe's Shaman, putting an end to their threat. He then rallies the Dark Tribe's remnants to fight against the T-Rex, before defeating the dinosaur himself]].
* BigBad: The Dark Tribe's shaman and leader who orders his minions to abduct prisoners for sacrificial rituals. The main dinosaur, a T-Rex, might also count, although it spends most of the film confined within it's cave.
* BuriedAlive: The unconscious female lead nearly suffers this fate late into the film, if not for the bumbling caveman - after learning how to use a bow and arrow - ambushing the Dark Tribe minions about to pile dirt on her.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite what the poster above implies, at no point do you see any brontosauruses in this film.
* DavidVersusGoliath: [[spoiler:The bumbling caveman fights the T-Rex, ''alone''. And wins]].

* DecoyProtagonist: Audiences are led to believe the Dark Tribe warrior who defected his clan is the main character, but as the film goes on an increasing amount of focus is given to the nomad tribe's sidekick, the bumbling caveman. In fact, [[spoiler:the supposed "hero" of the film is absent in the final act - it's the bumbling sidekick who saves the day by killing the BigBad]].
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The T-Rex is defeated when the bumbling caveman hurls a burning torch down it's throat, and as it thrashes around the dinosaur falls off a cliff]]. Subverted in the final scene [[spoiler:when the "dead" T-Rex opens its eyes]].
* ExtremeOmnivore: The benevolent nomad tribe usually feasts on insects, with their introduction scene showing them grabbing cockroaches off the floor and stuffing their mouths with it.
* EyeAwaken: The T-Rex is introduced as a gigantic opening eye, staring at the sacrifice the Dark Tribe is offering him (and by extension, the audience). [[spoiler:In the film's final scene, another comes from the T-Rex's "corpse", indicating that the monster is NotQuiteDead]].

* HumanSacrifice: The Dark Tribe indulges in these activities, feeding captives and prisoners to the T-Rex living in a cave within their territory where they see as their "God".

* HatedByAll: [[spoiler:The Dark Tribe shaman, despite his authority among his subjects, turns out to be despised by all his underlings. After the bumbling caveman kills the shaman, his tribe promptly cheers, and some of them even [[DesecrateTheDead take turns kicking his body for good measure]]!]]
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: The only benevolent animals who ''doesn't'' attack everything on sight in this film are the pachycephalosaurus (who attacks cavemen in self-defense, it's sole onscreen kill being an AccidentalMurder) and the triceratops with her baby, who eats grass out the hand of the female lead.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: While it's not said aloud (given the film's absence of dialogue), [[spoiler:after kiling the Dark Tribe Shaman, the bumbling caveman then shows the rest of the Dark Tribe, who's been living in fear of the T-Rex most of their lives and worshipping it as an angry God, there's no need to fear it because the T-Rex is afraid of fire, by hurling a flaming torch on said dinosaur. The Dark Tribe then retaliates and fights back using torches of their own]].

* PeekabooCorpse: When the escaped warrior and the maiden hides in a cave, they were spooked by a decomposing human corpse tucked in a corner. And realize there are several other bodies nearby. Turns out they're in the lair of a giant prehistoric rodent.

* ShoutOut: A rather blatant one to ''Film/JurassicPark'' released just a year earlier. Like Grant luring the T-Rex to come towards him using a flare, [[spoiler:the bumbling caveman uses a burning torch with similar results]]. Although instead of luring the T-Rex into a corner, this one has [[spoiler:the T-Rex being lured near a cliff]].

* TemperCeratops: Subverted with the mother triceratops, who mauls several Dark Tribe mooks to death because [[spoiler:they killed an innocent young boy and tries threatening her baby]]. Even then [[spoiler:she doesn't really put up much of a fight, a few spears thrushed into her side from the Dark Tribe is enough to kill her]].
* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: A ''T. rex'' worshiped by the Dark Tribe as their "God" drives the tribe into abducting prisoners for its sacrificial rituals. Late into the film the same ''T. rex'' goes on a destructive rampage and tries to devour all the main characters.

* TookALevelInBadass: The bumbling caveman, who goes from a silly FatComicRelief to learning how to use a bow and arrow, fighting the hostile Dark Tribe, [[spoiler:killing the Dark Tribe shaman and taking down the T-Rex]].
* UseYourHead: A pachycephalosaurus shows up in this film, and like classical depictions of said dinosaur it headbutts everything it sees. It even kills a caveman by headbutting too hard.
* WouldHitAGirl: The Dark Tribe's shaman is ready to sacrifice the film's female lead to the T-Rex. And in another scene, a nameless, unrelated female captive caught escaping was sentenced to UnwillingSuspension by the wrists, the shaman gleefully beats and flogs the tied-up, helpless woman himself until she passes out presumably to death.

* PteroSoarer: A pterosaur appears as one of the film's major threats, including [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey kidnapping the female lead from the skies]] and later trying to feed the main characters to her nest of baby pterosaurs.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: A T-Rex worshipped by the Dark Tribe as their "God", whose existence drives the tribe into abducting prisoners for it's sacrificial rituals. Late into the film the same T-Rex goes on a destructive rampage and tries to devour all the main characters.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The mother triceratops, a GentleGiant who is content with playing with the humans until [[spoiler:the Dark Tribe minions kills the young cave-boy and tries threatening the baby triceratops]]. Cue the mother triceratops going on a rampage and graphically mauling more than one human enemy to death, with graphic results.

* CoversALwaysLie: Despite what the poster above implies, at no point do you see any brontosauruses in this film.

* KingOfTheDInosaurs: A T-Rex worshipped by the Dark Tribe as their "God", whose existence drives the tribe into abducting prisoners for it's sacrificial rituals. Late into the film the same T-Rex goes on a destructive rampage and tries to devour all the main characters.

* DeathOfAChild: Besides the [[spoiler:cave-boy]] mentioned above, the main characters gets menaced by a pterasaur who tries feeding them to her young. They managed to kill the pterasaur, and afterwards [[spoiler:the bumbling caveman beats the baby pterosaurs to their deaths]].