Michael O'Keefe Musician Vincent Raven (Alice Cooper) loads up the gear and his band to travel to his boyhood home to film a music video. Along with the band is his girlfriend (Victoria Vera). Entering town, Vincent is met by a childhood friend, (Ricardo Palacious), who just happens to be the local sheriff. Vincent and his crew are warned of wild dogs running loose and killing area residents. The back story is that about twenty years earlier, Vincent's own father was killed by an angry mob. The towns people thought he was a...werewolf. The star knows different; meanwhile the townsfolk fear that Vincent is just like his old man.This is an Italian film, so voices have been over dubbed. The acting isn't much, but all considering, MONSTER DOG is a decent late night creature feature. Alice Cooper manages to sing two songs, "See Me In The Mirror" and "Identity Crisis", that were never released for fourteen years.Also in the cast: Fernando Conde, Pepita James, Carlos Santurio, Emilio Lender and Charly Bravo.

Neil Springmont Why would anybody OK this script for production? Why would anybody actually watch this movie in its entirety?Why am I writing a review for a movie that should be banned from ever being viewed? Because I'm a colossal loser. And so are those who enjoyed this piece of garbage.h

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.

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.