Monster Dog
Monster Dog
R | 01 December 1984 (USA)
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Victor Raven, a famous rock star, returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Believing his presence is responsible for the return of a monstrous hound that killed folks when he was kid, the locals decide to do something violent about it.

Reviews
Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
shawnblackman An Italian 80's horror film starring Alice Cooper. I think he offered to do this on the pretense that it was only going to be distributed somewhere overseas. Oops. This one has Cooper going to an old mansion to shoot a rock video. There is two songs of his that he performs in faux videos that I don't think he released on anything else so if you are a fan check it out.The town is rampant with wild dogs all attacking everyone where we later learn they are being controlled by a werewolf. The violence is mild in this one.The film is corny as hell but fun to watch. Alice Cooper doesn't do too bad of a job.
shawnallbritten Amid the forgotten stacks of old eighties movies and television shows comes this, regrettably overlooked gem that came out of nowhere and returned to the ether almost as quickly. Alice Cooper stars as a harried, overworked rock star (what else) who inherits a rambling old mansion and a curse to go along with it. The music is what sets this film apart from others from this era, when films like The Terminator overshadowed everything in the horror field. 84 was a good year for horror movies. Cooper returns to his birthplace to record a new music video, after being gone for over twenty years. The film looks horribly dated, and is only available to view on Tubitv, which inundates its films with innumerable commercials, but the movie is uncut and fun to watch nonetheless. I remember seeing it when I was fourteen, with my good friend Vern. We watched it in the darkness of his basement, along with Slugs and Amityville Horror 2. A must watch for any fan of Alice Cooper and for rock films in general. There is lots of music involved, including some forgotten gems from the Alan Parsons Project as spooky background tunes. The film is atmospheric and frightening at times, other times campy and goofy, but always good and well worth a view or two. I place it high among my old favorites.
Tanuccoon Starring Alice Cooper as a rock star (I mean, really? How's he going to pull that one off? >_>) returning to his home town, Monster Dog is something of a werewolf whodunnit without much of a whodunnit part. Since most of the attacks are credited to wild dogs whom we see throughout the movie (supposedly controlled by a werewolf because, well, werewolf mythology is anything you want it to be) the film builds up the idea that there may not even be a werewolf... or, at least, a werewolf that doesn't look like one.Because the movie doesn't have enough bizarre plot threads, you have an old (bloody) doomsayer running around as well as an angry mob who killed Alice Cooper's dad because they thought he was a werewolf. The mob, which consists of four angry rednecks, are the closest thing the film has to antagonists. Most of the time you're left wondering when that werewolf will show.And because Alice Cooper is a rock star playing a rock star, you have an obligatory terrible music video (entitled "Identity Crisis" which could either be clever foreshadowing or, more likely, they just thought it sounded cool...) which plays in the beginning (and is reused at the ending because, well, Alice Cooper) as well as some scenes of shooting another rock video. For extra laughs, Cooper's character is named Vince Raven. I'm not joking. Seriously, it's a name so badly contrived that you'd more expect it in the laziest of fanfics.All things considered, it's a decidedly average film. It moves at an okay pace (except for a far too long obvious dream sequence). The redneck gang was pretty entertaining even if they weren't played up enough. Pretty much everything in the film seemed to rush by, probably because they tried to do far too much.
MonoxideChildNJ As long as you know to expect a BAD movie this will turn out to be pretty GOOD for it's time! Big shame that Alice's voice was dubbed over...hurt the film a lot, but if you can get through all that there is a scene worth waiting for near the end where Alice is blowing away people with his trusty BOOMSTICK!If you aren't an Alice Cooper fan, then find something else to watch, leave it at that.If you are an Alice fan and like older cheesy, campy horror then check it out!...also be sure to check out Prince of Darkness featuring ALICE COOPER!