Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — Exclusive Indoraptor Image

The T-rex. The Velociraptor. The Spinosaurus. The Indominus rex. Jurassic films have a high bar when it comes to bringing mighty prehistoric predators and medically-modified monsters to the big screen. But if any filmmaker is up to the task of delivering more full-blown dino-scares, it’s The Orphanage director J.A. Bayona. And for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Bayona and the Jurassic team have cooked up something new: the Indoraptor.

In a continuation of the first Jurassic World’s genetic meddling, this upgraded raptor is about to prove — once again, why won’t they learn? — that life, uh, finds a way of going psycho when you poke it around too much. Take a closer look at the Indoraptor with this exclusive image from the forthcoming issue of Empire, out this week.

“He’s been in a cell his whole life and mistreated, so he’s slightly mentally unhinged, with a nervous twitch on his claw,” VFX supervisor David Vickery told Empire about the Indoraptor. “One of the main references we used was a black-and-white photo of a shellshocked soldier from World War I, with these utterly haunted eyes.”

Read all about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — and plenty more big-screen blockbusters — in the Summer Movie Blowout issue of Empire, which hits the shelves this Thursday 17 May. The Indoraptor will be stalking its way into UK cinemas when Fallen Kingdom arrives on 6 June.