Geek Syndicate Issue 8 | Page 104

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Tyrannosaurus Azteca (aka Aztec Rex)
Image © The Assylum, 2007

FILM REVIEW

Writer: Richard Manning
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Starring: Ian Ziering, Dichen
Lachman & Marc Antonio

Two years before his famous
encounter with Montezuma,
Cortes is sent on a scouting mission to shores south
of Mexico where he and his
band of Conquistadores discover a small tribe of Aztecs
who sacrifice their own people
to satisfy the hunger of the
“Thunder Lizard” living in the
jungle.
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