It stars John Savage, Cliff DeYoung, Rick Dean, Ryan Thomas Johnson, Arabella Holzbog and Don Stroud.

The film is about a team of technicians who go to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to investigate problems concerning power and communications.

At a desert facility called the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, an orphaned teenage hacker boy named Jesse is caught trying to steal dynamite.

When communications from the facility cease, a repair team of civilian technicians are called in to investigate, as the site had been experiencing power issues.

The investigators find the place deserted; three go to the control room to try to reboot the computer system, while the other three form a search party.

The team realizes that the issues with the communications equipment cannot be resolved from the control room, concluding that they must venture down into the facility to find the cause of the problem.

Jesse, listening to their radio chatter, realizes what happened and flees the room just before a Velociraptor[1] appears and kills Moses.

Demanding further answers from McQuade, he tells the team that the lower levels of the facility are a repository for atomic waste, including dozens of warheads.

Radiation is now leaking from a containment unit, damaged by the dinosaurs, and a repository failure will occur in less than two hours, potentially setting off the warheads.

Jesse devises a plan to crash the computers to send the site into emergency mode, which should get an evacuation squad to rescue them.

Once the plan is put into place, the group begins making their way back to the surface, using dynamite rigged with tripwires to hold off the dinosaurs while getting to the elevator.

Jesse makes his way to the surface and finds the evacuation team waiting, but they refuse to retrieve Reed due to the facility's imminent explosion.

[1] Effects artist John Carl Buechler said that because Carnosaur was the most successful film ever made by Corman and his company New Horizons, they had to make a sequel.

[1] Buechler and Magical Media Industries returned to create the special effects for Carnosaur 2, which re-used the same dinosaur models from the first film, saving the production team money.

Yet it also sports a fine cast, including two-time Oscar nominee John Savage, and is galvanized by the scrappy resourcefulness and unpretentious spirit that low-budget filmmaking allows".

[9] The New York Daily News considered Carnosaur 2 an improvement over the original film, and praised the cast, especially Savage and Stroud.

[12] Brian J. Dillard of AllMovie rated it one star out of five and criticized the dinosaur effects, while stating: "The best that can be said of Carnosaur 2 is that it gives good gore".

[4] In 2013, critic Mike Mayo wrote that the acting was above average, and that Morneau "keeps things moving quickly enough that the plot lapses and less-than-stellar special effects aren't fatal".