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Two creatures escape from a top secret laboratory. One is a dog with astonishing intelligence, the other a hybrid creature designed to be the perfect killing machine. It has been 'programmed' to 'seek and destroy' the dog, and any humans in its path. Read more

Starring Michael Ironside, Christopher Cary, Graeme Campbell, Dan O'Dowd
Director Jon Hess
Genres Horror

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Two creatures escape from a top secret laboratory. One is a dog with astonishing intelligence, the other a hybrid creature designed to be the perfect killing machine. It has been 'programmed' to 'seek and destroy' the dog, and any humans in its path.

Starring Michael Ironside, Christopher Cary, Graeme Campbell, Dan O'Dowd, Corey Haim
Director Jon Hess
Studio OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Horror
Language English
Released DVD: 26 Dec 2005
Production year: 1988
Format DVD

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  • 1 stars out of 5

    Horror novelist Dean R Koontz was extremely unhappy with this adaptation of his work, though he had plenty of warning with bargain-basement producers Roger Corman and Damian Lee attaching themselves to the project. All hope of redemption disappeared with Corey Haim cast as the teen hero who finds an extremely intelligent dog, not knowing that it is the result of a government experiment that also produced a pursuing sasquatch-like animal (or is it a guy in a gorilla suit?). Once again Michael Ironside, playing the usual government agent who comes in to try to cover things up, manages to give a stereotyped and poorly written character some menace and personality. Dark, murky and unexciting.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    What were they watching?

    I was disappointed that the gripping novel by Dean Koontz had been turned into another episode of Lassie.

    Jon Hess had missed the opportunity to make a taut and gripping thriller by casting Corey Haims as the boy next door/ love interest/ intrepid teenager who does not know which way to turn. I know that Michael Ironside can make a good baddie so his part in the lacklustre ending could have been sharpened up as well.

    Enid Blyton has written more gripping thrillers about Noddy in Toyland and the photography would have been average for a college project.

    What a pity about the waste of good actors and an excellant plot in this so called thriller that has less terror than an episode of 'Last of the Summer Wine'.

    Regretfully not really worth the money, but at least I did not buy it!

      • Charles Brickley from Andover, Hampshire England
      • Posted 18 Jul 2007 18:08

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  • Rated - 1 star

    DON'T WATCH

    ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz - too boring to review.

    But a question - What made normally charismatic actor Michael Ironside get involved in this garbage?

      • Peter from London, England
      • Posted 07 Feb 2006 15:56

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