The following contains spoilers forJurassic World.
In the former, we experience the terror of a mother whose young son is kidnapped by aliens.
The velociraptors stalking the terrified Hammond kids through a shiny kitchen.
And heres Muldoon in his safari suit, eyes wide with fear.
The movies spliced-together Indominus Rex is a creature dreamed up by a corporation chasing profits.
You wanted a bigger, scarier dinosaur?
Then here it is.
Branches of Starbucks Ben & Jerrys are ransacked.
An early scene where Chris Pratts dinosaur wrangler tiptoes into the Indominus Rex enclosure is but one early example.
The scene shows up when the pteranadons escape from their enclosure and descend on the parks shopping district.
Visitors scatter left and right, some of them far too late to avoid the flying creatures snapping jaws.
The most unfortunate victim is Zara (Katie McGrath, of Merlin fame).
And if memory serves, its staring at a mobile phone that proves to be Zaras undoing.
Now, we know from an earlier scene roughly whats going to happen next.
The movie doesnt disappoint.
Then the pteranadons comes splashing back down into the water to retrieve their fallen prey.
We see Zara, screaming, hoisted back into the air before being dropped back into the sea.
So shes picked up again and then dropped.
We knew that the mosasaur would make a reappearance at some point.
But wed failed to predict that Zara would become the rope in a monstrous game of tug o war.
I tell ya, when you think back to the moments in Stevens films that we love the most…
I mean, the beginning ofJawsis just horrifying, what happens to that poor girl, Trevorrow said.
you’re able to imagine it happening to you.
Being dunked in and out of water we just waterboard this poor girl its awful…
This, perhaps, is the secret behind the kinds of scenes Spielberg perfected in his movies.
Jurassic Worldfollows in that rich tradition of family horror.
Look, the director says with a chuckle; youre the one that came to a dinosaur island.
What did you expect?
