Monster Dog

Monster Dog (1988)

Leviatán

The fear… the nightmare… the terror… they will never forget it!

Victor Raven, a famous rock star, returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Believing his presence is responsible for the return of a monstrous hound that killed folks when he was kid, the locals decide to do something violent about it.

Date of release
1988-08-16
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (43)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror
Director
Claudio Fragasso

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Madrid

Monster Dog is a 1984 Spanish horror film directed by Claudio Fragasso and starring Alice Cooper and Victoria Vera. Cooper plays a rock star who returns to his hometown, which has been plagued by wild dog attacks.

Production

Claudio Fragasso had been working as a screenwriter since the mid-1970s. In the 1980s, he often worked with Bruno Mattei as an uncredited co-director on women in prison films and gory horror movies. Dutch producer Eduard Salui saw Mattei and Fragasso's Rats: Night of Terror, and subsequently suggested to Fragasso that he make another horror feature involving animals, for the home video market.

Cooper is an American musician noted for his use of horror and macabre imagery. In an interview several months after the film's initial video release, he said that he had selected Monster Dog from numerous scripts submitted to him because "I didn't want to do a heavy-budget movie. If I do one of these I want to make sure it's sleazy. I want it to be really cheap." He added, laughing, "I got a lot of money for it.

Line producer Carlos Aured spoke positively of Cooper, who he said had only two requests: a supply of cold Coca-Cola, and a VCR in his room so he could watch old Westerns. During filming, Cooper took weekends off to play golf, according to Aured.

Monster Dog was filmed in five weeks. The movie was shot back-to back with another horror feature, The Falling, in Torrelodones, Spain. Fragasso said that numerous delays were caused by the special effects, which were all shot in the final week. The monster's head, a large puppet, broke in the first scene in which it was used, resulting in part of the script being rewritten to work around the prop's lack of functionality.

The film was shot MOS with each actor delivering lines in his/her native tongue with dialogue to be added later Cooper's character dialogue was re-recorded by Ted Rusoff.

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