‘Jurassic Park,’ The Homemade Movie: Two Friends Made A Kids Remake

In the summer of 1993, New Jersey friends David Chakrin and Michael Raisch began filming their own version of Jurassic Park, using the movie-licensed action figures, G.I. Joes and a rubber Tyrannosaurus rex, as some of their props. In honor of the release of Jurassic World, Chakrin and Raisch have shared an edit of their home-made movie online, 22 years after they filmed it.

90s KID REMAKE OF ‘JURASSIC PARK’

Steven Spielberg‘s Jurassic Park, left Chakrin, and Raisch, like many children, fascinated and completely obsessed with the dinosaur action movie. To film the movie, Chakrin, then 11, and Raisch, 13, used a Zenith camcorder and a fax machine to send script pages back and forth. The final cut of the movie was 26-minutes long and it took them six months to make it. They called it, “The Retelling of Jurassic Park.”

“It’s so bad, it’s good,” Charkrin, now 33, told NewJersey.com. The young filmmakers made three versions of the movie— one of them even included their family members. The YouTube version of the film is only six-minutes long and they renamed it Jurassic Park: The 1990’s Kid Remake.

“Dave was the planner and I was the creative,” Raisch, now 32, said. The Jurassic Park remake was filmed in between Charkrin and Raisch’s houses, and even though they were only kids at the time, their short remake of the popular movie features different sets, awesome props, and a pretty good script.

Watch the 90s kids version of Jurassic Park below: