Schlock
Schlock
PG | 01 March 1973 (USA)
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A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.

Reviews
Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
zuugle Everyone who wants or has to educate himself will not get around this film. It doesn't matter whether it's about bananas or the erotic aura of big breasts, the movie never uses cheap humoristic clichés.The illustrated story is to be seen as the basis of all that is funny and desirable about the human race, that should imitate us first of all an artificial intelligent. Now I could write watch this movie and your life will improve in quality of life, but I'm honest most people are just too forgetful to have some of the great philosophical insights in the long run.It can also be assumed that the people who rate this movie worse than 10 stars either have to be stupid complete idiots or their sense of humoristic activities has been extracted from them beforehand. So I remain respectfully, her T.T. from the German Ministry of Popular Humor
enigmann This movie did something to me, something subversive. (I can't remember what, exactly, but it was really something.) It was like lighting a bottle rocket, which whooshed up into the air and exploded my sense of humor into a million tiny bits of laughter. To this day, I cannot even THINK of this movie without laughing out loud. Even now, lo these many decades later, just watching the trailer still sends me into full-on crack-up. Looking back, I can clearly see how this film served as a kind of weird initiation that ultimately pointed me in the direction of The Church of the SubGenius™. Praise Bob! (and John Landis also...)Can anybody stop it?
Mikelito So this is a shoe-string budget ($ 60.000) movie... It happens to be a brilliant movie for people who have kept alive the child in themselves. John Landis has a talent for making comedies.There are a number of fantastically executed gags in this one. Very deadpan. The body language of "Schlock" is absolutely hilarious.If you're only interested in today's slick, over-produced comedies as well as romantic movies in which Hanks/Stiller/Grant get their girl or if you need CGI, car chases, shootouts and explosions to entertain yourself then stay away from this.The bottom line and "theory" of this movie is symbolized in all the excerpts from "Blob" with a certain Steve McQueen. Here is a guy who evidently took himself serious and played some tough guys in his days.YET: Steve McQueen was in "Blob"... CONCLUSION: Don't take yourself so serious, people. Whether it's comedy or drama or action: it doesn't take 200 mio. dollars to be entertained.
jweimar-1 Great movie for those who like slap stick stupid movies. i.e. Benny Hill, Airplane, etc...... It has moments you'll never forget. I liked seeing it because it gives me the history on John Landis when I watch his films. See you next Wednesday!