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Dire Wolf: Directed by Fred Olen Ray. With Maxwell Caulfield, Steven Lee Allen, Dawn Ann Billings, Vince Cefalu. A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community.
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The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus / iː ˈ n ɒ s aɪ. ɒ n ˈ d aɪ r ə s /) is an extinct canine. The dire wolf lived in the Americas (with a possible single record also known from East Asia) during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–9,500 years ago). The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had ...
RELEASED IN 2009 and directed by Fred Olen Ray, "Dire Wolf" (also known as "Dinowolf") chronicles events in rural Southern California when a genetically modified creature that's half-dire wolf and half-human escapes a government-funded research facility and goes on a gory rampage.
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Dire Wolf was one of the largest ancestral canines to have ever walk the Earth. It lived approximately 240,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago what is also known as the Rancholabrean North American Land Mammal Age. It was first discovered in the mid-nineteenth century and was named by Joseph Leidy in 1858.
Dire Wolves were living comfortably in North America when Grey Wolves crossed the Siberian Land Bridge into North America. And while there is no evidence that these two species of animals were mortal enemies, it is probably likely that both of them competed for the same prey.
However, Dire Wolves not only had to compete with Gray Wolves, but they also had to compete with Sabre-tooth Tiger. A thousand of Dire Wolf and Sabre-tooth Tiger fossils have been found in The La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles. Not only did they share the same habitat and possibly hunt the same prey, it is also likely that they hunted each other!
Some of the most interesting facts about the Dire Wolf is its size and weight statistics. Dire Wolves were approximately 5 feet long and weighed around 150 pounds. That would have made them about 25 percent bigger than Gray Wolves. Which is approximately how much bigger they would have been as compared to the largest modern dogs.
Another interesting fact about the Dire Wolf is they had a bite-force that could not only slice through flesh but most likely could break bones so it could get to the marrow inside them. Which is a pretty impressive feat considering Dire Wolves loved to eat horses.
As was the case with a lot of animals which lived around the cusp of the Last Ice Age, the Dire Wolf went extinct about 11,000 years ago. And there were probably a number of reasons for why it did. The first reason is that humans probably hunted animals they depended on for food into extinction. The second reason is that humans also probably hunted...
Dire Wolf. 2009 · 1 hr 28 min. R. Horror · Action · Sci-Fi. When a half-human half-wolf creature wreaks havoc on a mountain village, it’s up to a pair of government agents and a sheriff to stop the madness.
- Fred Olen Ray
- January 1, 2009
- 87 min
Aug 5, 2011 · Human DNA mixed with prehistoric DIRE WOLF skeleton results in a terrifying Hybrid monster. Fun man-in-suit monster movie by Cult film director Fred Olen Ray...
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A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community. It's up to the easygoing Sheriff Parker, eager game warden Jim, and a couple of government agents to stop the beast before things get too out of hand.
