2/10
Ugh
19 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
You know what you never realize as a kid? As bad of a director as George Lucas can be, he's one of the few people able to reign in the hammy tendencies of Mark Hamill, who plays a detective in this one who has just lost his wife and son to a fire that was probably caused by a mutant because that's how it goes.

Lisa Wilcox, Alice from A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 and 5, plays the scientist who introduces him to a golden retriever, this time named Alex and being not as smart as he was the last time, only having an IQ of 140. This one also has a pit bull and the man who ruined Night Gallery in syndication, Gary Collins, so you know that my heart is on the side of the animals and not the humans. I'm also on the side of all murderous mutants, because as Emily Dickinson wrote, "The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care," and we've gone about proving this inscrutable wisdom true ever since."

Low Rawls - yes, the man who sang "You'll Never Find Another Love like Mine" - has a cameo as a coroner, so if you ever get asked, "What do Lucio Fulci and Lou Rawls have in common?" and a gun is at your temple, I have provided you with the knowledge that will save your life.

Director John Carl Buechler ran Corman's special effects team for some time before directing movies like Demonwarp, Cellar Dweller and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.
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