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A Film By Clyde Anderson Well, let me start off by being totally honest with you...this is a horror film...with the horror being that it was actually made. I mean, let's face it, this film is freakin' awful. But, it does feature Alice Cooper and that's gotta count for something, right? That's the only reason I made the effort...and, believe me, it was an effort...to track this one down on VHS, which I've had for a year or two now. So, when this arrived in my mailbox on DVD, I was thrilled...and I'm probably one of only a few people who would actually get excited about this. Alice Cooper is Vincent Raven, a rock star who's heading back home to film a rock video. Through the course of the film we learn that Vincent's father was a werewolf who killed a lot of people before he himself was killed by an angry mob. The angry mob turns out to be four bad ass dudes who think they're in a western. We know this because they show up to kill Vincent because they believe he's a werewolf as well. Turns out, it's some crazy old man who's the werewolf and he's the one who kills all the minor characters in the movie. Once everybody else in the movie is dead, this crazy old man bites Vincent, which turns him into a werewolf...until his lovely co-star, Victoria Vera, blows him away with a shotgun at his request and, of course, she's the only one who survives the entire movie. Can I say cheese now? Oh, yeah...it's cheese. The only good thing about this movie is the fact that Alice Cooper's in it and he does two tunes, both of which were included on his box set. It moves forward at a rather slow pace. You wait for something to happen and when it does, it's nothing special. But, it does have a moment or two that, at least in my opinion, makes it worth watching. You get to see Alice Cooper runnin' around with a shotgun, blowin' the western wanna-be's away. There's a cool scene with Alice Cooper standin' in the middle of a pack of dogs. Victoria Vera is nice to look at...might have made it made more interesting if we got to see her boobs. We do get a brief glimpse of a woman in her panties, nothing to write home about though. "Monster Dog" is one of those movies that's so bad, it's good. It was released in 1984 as "Leviathan," which seems to be a really stupid title to begin with and the only special features on this release are some trailers for some movies that look worse than this one...although there are some boobies to see in some of those trailers. Doesn't really matter though. I'm just glad to finally have this one on DVD. Now, if only we could get "Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park" released on DVD as well, the world would be a much better place. |