Vince Raven (Alice Cooper) is a rock musician shooting a
music video in his childhood home. Packs of wild dogs begin attacking people in
the area. When the caretaker of Vince’s old home goes missing, the crew begin
to suspect a killer is lurking in the woods nearby. Vince reveals that his
father had lycanthropy and was viciously murdered by the locals who blamed him
for many deaths. Now it seems there is new monster and everyone begins to
suspect Vince is following in his father’s pawsteps.
For starters, Monster
Dog is directed by the man who brought us Troll 2 (1990). So, I was not expecting much quality... and I was right. This film is
much better than Troll 2, but it does
lack that movie’s odd charm. The plot does not make much sense upon first
viewing (or the second). The dog attacks are performed by some barely trained
animals who don’t seem to care much for chewing on people. Alice Cooper’s voice
is dubbed through the entire film by someone else entirely. There’s more fog in
this movie than in The Fog (1980). The
most surprising thing in the film is a gun fight that seems to come out of
nowhere.The titular monster dog looks neat, but it’s an obvious stiff looking
prop. There is a hefty amount of gore and some of it very well done. Monster
Dog is filled with goofy nonsense but it’s far too lazily paced to be much
fun. Even Alice looks disinterested.
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