MONSTER DOG

Some dancers decide to spend a weekend at a countryside villa belonging to a friend choreographer. Upon arriving at the location, they find the horribly mutilated body of the caretaker. The culprit is a kind of monster-dog that lives in the house. This is an American horror production filmed in Spain (near Madrid) but directed by the Italian Claudio Fragasso. It is a low-budget film, and this inevitably affects the film's quality: the special effects are shoddy (it's enough to say that the mechanical puppet of the monster-dog broke down already during the first scene!) but still demonstrate a certain "inventiveness" in the director's attempt to make up for the obvious technical limitations available; the actors don't help either, almost never up to the task (the only one to save himself is the protagonist, the "star" of horror-rock Alice Cooper). As if that weren't enough, "Monster Dog" was further "ruined" in the editing phase, as the production decided to re-edit the film by cutting several minutes and, needless to say, the strongest sequences were cut. For this reason too, Fragasso decided to sign the film once again with the pseudonym of Clyde Anderson.