Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Palaest recommended

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

meddlecore Corey Haim and his mom find a super intelligent dog that has escaped from a secret research facility. The dog is being hunted down by a genetically engineered sasquatch called Oxcom- who has a penchant for gouging people's eyes out.The trio are on the lam, while the men in beige from the NSO are trying to find them, so they can cover the whole fiasco up...mainly, that the Oxcom is responsible for several recent murders in town.The dog and Oxcom are telepathically linked, so they cannot hide from one another...and it is so vindictive...it will try and kill any and everyone the dog has come into contact with.So there's only one decision to be made: how to fight it.This is based on a Dean Koontz novel (that I haven't read), but I can imagine people being disappointed by it's mildly cheesy nature, if they were expecting more.The dog actor was lovable. But I was kind of hoping Corey Haim was going to sacrifice himself to save the rest of his family. Oh, well. At least he throat shanks that one dude. That's a nice consolation.The sasquatch/Oxcom thing was pretty bad...which is probably why they barely show it for more than a second at a time throughout the whole film.But it's still kind of entertaining, probably because of the dog. Yea. Definitely because of the dog.5 out of 10.

movieman_kev Lem (Michael Ironside) is tasked with finding an experimental dog that escaped from a government facility, not knowing that a teenager, Travis (the late Corey Haim) has since, reluctantly, 'adopted' the dog for his own. However, a second escapee, this one much less benevolent, is also on the loose.Hollywood has had a history of screwing up Dean Koontz's source material. The later more abysmal "Hidaway" would further prove that sad fact. So coming at this film as a bastardized adaptation of his novel would be like shooting fish in a barrel. As such, I won't and shall try to take this movie on its own merits (or more appropriately, lack there of) Starting with the main gripe against this movie, simple and trite dialog (specifically, the banter between Travis, his mom and the dog is cringe-worthy and borders sitcom-level awfulness) quite frankly, the only actor that even attempts to not embarrass himself in this movie is Ironside himself, yet sadly he finds that goal foiled at every turn. One could only imagine what would have been if the writers strike didn't adversely affect the quality of this movie. But what is is and what is, isn't good.

lost-in-limbo Preposterous, but quite a fun gory and relentless late 80s creature-feature, where the screenplay is loosely adapted off a Dean R Koontz's novel. Instead it turns out to be a horror vehicle for teen heart throb Corey Haim, especially the amount of the time his character has and it becomes somewhat of an annoying distraction. Along for the carnage is Michael Ironside, providing plenty of ticker to his villainous ham portrayal of a devious government agent. Also the cast features good showings by Barbara Williams, Duncan Frazer, Colleen Winton, Blu Mankuma, Dan Wilson and a minor part for a young Jason Priestly. The plot has an intriguing back-story (a canine experiment gone wrong), but simply it gets lost in its cheesy dialogues and fashionable need to have a healthy body count leaving it to be a generic monster on the loose threat on a small town community. So you just take it for face value. Sometimes its hard to keep a straight face, make light of its choppy attack scenes and certain plot devices are vaguely penned, but it's commendably directed in its systematic patterns that you just go along with its genetic madness. The costume of the creature is downright tacky (a mutated ape?), but for the majority of the running time we only get jumpy glimpses of it… be it the hands, legs and then of course there's monster POV shot and growling."We're in this together."

udar55 This failed adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel about a man befriending a super smart dog. Why do I say failed? Because they took the book's thirtysomething ex-Delta Force lead and made him Corey Haim. Yes, Corey Freakin' Haim. I'm sure Dean Koontz started rolling before he even gets close to being in a grave. Even sadder, the dog co-star acts circles around Haim. Seriously. Director Jon Hess makes a fine looking film (shot in British Columbia) and stages some nice attack sequences with some decent gore. But the monster design, something instrumental to these kind of flicks, is downright sad. Not as sad as Feldman, er, Haim being the lead, but sad enough that they have to keep it hidden in tight close ups or shadows. The always reliable Michael Ironside also gives a nice performance as the Government agent tracking the dog. Look for Jason Priestly as "Boy on bike" who gets offed.Corman made sure to get his money's worth out of his license of Koontz's novel as he made three sequels to this; they all basically remake the film with the second one being closer to the book than this one. As I said about RAWHEAD REX somewhere in this thread, I'm not a proponent of remakes but this is definitely a case where some filmmakers could make a movie 100% better from the source material.