Schlock
Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi |
1973 |
1hr 20min
CAST: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Eliza Roberts, Joseph Piantadosi DIRECTOR: John Landis WEIRD ELEPHANT SERIES - ART HOUSE THEATER DAY
CAST: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Eliza Roberts, Joseph Piantadosi DIRECTOR: John Landis WEIRD ELEPHANT SERIES - ART HOUSE THEATER DAY
Southern California is being 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. Schlocky moves easily through a strangely stupid suburban society, the members of which don't seem to see him as a hairy menace. Young Mindy Binermen (Eliza Garrett), blind for the last three years, falls in love with him thinking he's a dog. When an operation to restore her eyesight proves successful, she discovers her pet is a lovesick gorilla being chased by the National Guard.
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A goofy, low-budget joy.Gerry Shamray, Your Movies
Goofily amusing early effort from a solid comedy director.Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com