Schlock (1973)
Directed by John Landis
Genres - Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction |
Sub-Genres - Horror Comedy, Parody/Spoof |
Release Date - Mar 1, 1973 (USA - Unknown), Mar 1, 1973 (USA) |
Run Time - 77 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Buzz McClain
Southern California is being terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd. Schlocky moves easily through a strangely stupid suburban society, the members of which don't seem to see him as a hairy menace. Young Mindy Binermen (Eliza Garrett), blind for the last three years, falls in love with him thinking he's a dog. When an operation to restore her eyesight proves successful, she discovers her pet is a lovesick gorilla being chased by the National Guard.
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love, blindness [physical], girl, handicap, killing, monster, prehistoric, rampage