GL84 Returning to his ancestral home, a rock star and his band attempting to shoot a new music video in his old family home finds the locals' superstition about werewolves might be real and struggles to protect them from a rampaging beast in the area.This here wasn't all that bad and really had some rather enjoyable elements about it. One of the better features here is the fact that this one manages to get quite a lot of work out of actually implying he is the beast or not, which gives this one the majority of its positive points. By throwing out the family legacy early on and tying him into his father's fate as being a werewolf they all tracked down and killed, it starts off the underlying thread of whether he's truly become one as well which is furthered nicely with their own experiences around the house which makes for a great continuation here with the dream sequences and the story about what happened to him as a child that really sells this nicely. Likewise, the continual encounters with the bleeding and dazed villager bring along plenty of rather exciting confrontations here that are also quite important at pulling the thread of whether or not he's actually the creature of legend feared by the town, and there's a great bit of tension added as well with his constant appearances. That really changes in the finale as there's the supreme fun of the locals appearing to track him down at the castle, the charmingly cheesy hostage situation and the resulting shootouts in the upper halls of the castle-like house make for a grand time before it finally puts the werewolf center-stage with an astounding series of interactions with the others as it controls the neighborhood dogs to attack one minute and be calm the next, charging into the fight itself and managing plenty of great stalking set-pieces and finally utilizing the final rush to get away from the house that really ends this one on a positive note here. Coupled with the strong werewolf look and some pretty gruesome kills, there's enough here to hold this one off against the flaws to be rather enjoyable. The main flaw here tends to be the way this one feels so overtly from its time period that it does become distracting more than anything, mainly in the fact that the backing lighting here gives so many scenes a luminous blue light that's more akin to a music video from that decade than any kind of realistic situation would allow. It looks cheesy, destroys the atmosphere the present action is trying to establish and is featured so often it becomes overkill when it really didn't need it. As well, there's also the quick running time here that allows this one to race through quite quickly and really could've been expanded just a touch as the early attacks by the beast really could've been given a little more here to really expand the action much more throughout here in this section while also giving this a little bit more of a running time. While the great werewolf look does come at the expense of realism as it's quite obviously a prop-head only created for the inserts of it in the scenes, it's not as detrimental as the other flaws here that are a little more obviously flaws that bring this down.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language.

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.

lost-in-limbo Reputation alone this should be a stinker, even with the presence of rock singer Alice Cooper and the video case artwork being quite striking. Anyhow I went in expecting just that, and sure enough it's low-barrel straight-to-video schlock, which I actually didn't mind. This shoestring Spanish werewolf horror production feels like nothing more than a Cooper vehicle, especially with the time spent on him in some music video clips ( for two previously unreleased songs entitled, "Identity Crisis" and "See Me In The Mirror."). Yep that's right; he plays a popular musician (Hell at least he's true to character!) who returns back home to shoot a music video clip, but the town is plagued by murders caused by stray dogs, or something much worse. The concept isn't too bad, but the leaden script and muddled story dispatches any chance of demonstrating some quality with cheesy daftness, padded stretches and senselessly prolonged plot inclusions. Instead on relishing in suspense, and build up (despite some minor tension and sudden twist near the end) director Claudio Fragasso goes for nightmarish moodiness, as a smoky, darkly lit atmosphere of fog, and light filtering engraves itself into the forebodingly isolated location. There's no better place to stage these things than in rundown, shadowy mansions. Although it works, the direction comes off clunky, and uneven. An eerie, stinging music score splices up well with the on-screen atmosphere, while the soundtrack is an unshakable winner. Now the special effects… yeah they're hokey. However there's a terrific head explosion and plenty of blood splatter, but when it came to the beast's make-up. It's shonky. Even the dogs in picture look bewildered when the werewolf finally makes its grand appearance. The transformation sequence is wickedly cheap, but amusing. The acting is downright disposable and flaky, but Cooper's comfortably sound turn holds your interest and the ravishing Victoria Vera is tolerable.

Tom Richards I am a huge Alice Cooper fan. I go to at least one gig on each of his UK tours, and he is the best live act I have ever seen. I own around twenty of his albums on CD. I also generally like bad movies, horror movies, and bad horror movies. In fact, I enjoy nearly every film I ever watch, regardless of genre or quality.I did not enjoy Monster Dog. Not even a little bit. It was excruciating.This is, quite simply, the worst film I have ever seen. Not so bad it's good; just so bad. So very, very bad. Not one single person involved with it was even remotely competent in any way. The dialogue sucks, the acting sucks (to the point where they frequently don't even have good cue pick-up), the pacing sucks (partly because of the aforementioned lack of cue pick- up), the cinematography sucks, the effects suck, and there aren't even any hot women. It is excruciatingly boring. There are two Alice numbers on the soundtrack, one of which is half- decent. Download them and save yourself the hassle, because they are the only reason to watch this picture.