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Released
1999 · FILM

Komodo

“Welcome to the bottom of the food chain.”

Directed by
Michael Lantieri
Written by
Hans Bauer, Craig Mitchell
Runtime
89 min
AdventureHorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

In the 1970s, Komodo dragon eggs were dumped on an island off North Carolina; the hatchlings survived and, twenty years later, had taken control of the island. Young Patrick lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, though he did not witness their deaths, leaving him traumatized. Accompanied by his therapist Victoria, he returns to confront his fears.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael FallavollitaShot by David BurrScored by John DebneyDesigned by George Liddle

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$207K

Budget$10.3M
Worldwide gross$207K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Komodo - Die Dracheninselde
  • Komodo - The Living Terrorde

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