Crap Film Club presents "Tammy and the T-Rex"

Tammy and the T-Rex, also known as "Tanny and the Teenage T-Rex", is a 1994 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Stewart Raffill. The film, which stars Denise Richards and Paul Walker, centres on a high school cheerleader named Tammy whose new boyfriend, Michael, might be the love of her life. But Tammy’s jealous ex, Billy, won’t stand for anyone coming between him and ‘his’ girl, so he and his friends kidnap Michael, leaving him to be mauled by a lion in a local wildlife reserve. Comatose and at death’s door, Michael’s body is stolen from the hospital by mad scientist Dr. Wachenstein, who extracts his brain and implants it into a giant robotic T-Rex. Horrified by his predicament and new dinosaur body, Michael escapes from the doctor’s lab and begins brutally killing his former bullies. Meanwhile Tammy and her best friend Byron start searching for a suitable human corpse in which to re-transplant Michael’s brain...

Raffill says he was approached by a man who had an animatronic T-Rex. "The eyes worked. The arms moved. The head moved. He had it for two weeks before it was going to be shipped to Texas and he came to me and said, “We can make a movie with it!” I said, “What’s the story?” and he said, “I don’t have a story, but we have to start filming within the month!” and so I wrote the story in a week. I was just trying to do a film for people that like wacky movies. In other words, you laugh at the experience that I was facing which is, what the hell are you meant to do with this material? I was sticking all this shit in it, just to make it work. I’m also the biggest plagiarist, I’m constantly asking the cast and crew if they have anything better that they can add."

Originally filmed as an R-rated comedy horror, its gore scenes were removed from its initial American release in order to appeal to a family audience. In 2019, Vinegar Syndrome restored and theatrically released the uncut version. So come and enjoy ‘testicular standoffs’, interspecies romance, comedy cops, and Denise Richards and Paul Walker in early roles giving it 110% despite a premise which is, frankly, insane and could easily have squashed their careers like a rampaging T-Rex. Many B-movies have a great concept but falter when it comes to the actual execution...well, "Tammy" delivers all the way - in fact, you could say it's dino-mite! So join us for another mammoth evening of crap film fun!

"Tammy and The T-Rex might just be your new midnight movie obsession" - Slashfilm

"Hands down, my favorite boy-meets-girl, boy-has-brain-transplanted-into-robot-dinosaur screen story." - Letterboxd

"Most certainly deserves a spot in the movies that are “so bad they are good” catalogue." - The Hollywood News

"Tammy and The T-Rex is the dictionary definition of a bad movie, it's also a relentless entertaining one" - ScreenRant

"Plenty of guts, gore, and goofiness with a generous slathering B-movie shenanigans...even more bonkers than I could have imagined!" - Syfy