screenshots / Aztec Rex (aka: Tyrannosaurus Azteca) / 2007 Rigel Entertainment

Set on the coast of Mexico in 1521, this fantasy adventure concerns a group of conquistadores who encounter an Aztec tribe that is making human sacrifices to a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Starring Ian Ziering (cast as Cortés), who may be known to some for his role as Fin Shepard in the Sharknado TV-movie franchise.

In the role of the warrior Xocozin, actor Kalani Queypo previously appeared in the 2005 films The End of the Spear and The New World.

Kalani Queypo was also cast as the Native Indian Chacrow in the 2017-2019 British television series Jamestown.

Director Brian Trenchard-Smith credits include 12 season one episodes of the Wolf Larson Tarzan TV series. (S1.E1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23)

Australian actor William Snow (as Mendoza) co-starred for 3 seasons on the 1999-2002 television series The Lost World as Lord John Roxton.

Actress Dichen Lachman (Ayacoatl) would be cast years later in another dinosaur movie: Jurassic World: Dominion (2022).

Filmed at the Kualoa Ranch nature reserve on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

The film premiered on the SyFy Channel May 10, 2008.