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5.4/10
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A boy takes in a stray dog, later discovering that it is an ultra-intelligent runaway being stalked by a dangerous creature from the same genetic research lab.A boy takes in a stray dog, later discovering that it is an ultra-intelligent runaway being stalked by a dangerous creature from the same genetic research lab.A boy takes in a stray dog, later discovering that it is an ultra-intelligent runaway being stalked by a dangerous creature from the same genetic research lab.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Christopher Cary
- TV Newscaster
- (as Christopher Carey)
Lala Sloatman
- Tracey
- (as Lala)
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- TriviaPaul Haggis wrote the original screenplay. By the time the movie was greenlit, the Writer's Guild strike hit and Haggis refused to do any further writing on the movie. Production was passed to Canadian producer Damien Lee who rewrote the script. Haggis read the script and took his name off it - taking credit instead as "Bill Freed", his WGA pseudonym, and insisted Damien Lee take credit for his work.
- Alternate versionsDue to the film targeting a "not under 16" rating, the German VHS release by UFA Video is cut by four minutes to achieve such rating, almost all violent scenes are shortened to reduce the blood & gore. The uncut German version would later be released on DVD in 2004 by Kinowelt (now StudioCanal Germany) and is rated "not under 18".
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Cine-Masochist: WATCHERS (2014)
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Performed by Mike Reno
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Just watchable
I'm a great fan of Koontz, and thought this might be an adaptation worth watching. I admit that due to the complexity of most his books, with all its subtlety, it is difficult to make a perfect adaptation, but this movie just barely made as a mediocre production. In an effort to make the movie 'cute' instead of the full-fledged horror it should be, it concentrates so much on the dog and its antics, but leaves us to imagine the monster for the most part. Given that the monster is at least as smart and complex as the dog, to see it reduced to simply a killing machine was a waste. And I still prefer the book ending to the movie ending - at least it made more sense and left one feeling a bit sad at the monster's demise instead of gloating over it.
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- Mike-DD
- Aug 25, 2000
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $940,173
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $260,820
- Dec 4, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $940,173
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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