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Schlock (1973)

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 5
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Release Date: Mar 1, 1973 Wide

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Movie Info

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

PG, 1 hr. 17 min.

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Directed By: John Landis

Written By: John Landis

In Theaters: Mar 1, 1973 Wide

On DVD: Oct 2, 2001

Cast

Forrest J Ackerman
Man in cinema
Eliza Garrett
Mindy Binerman
Saul Kahan
Sgt. Wino/Detective
Joseph Piantadosi
Prof. Shlibovitz
Richard Gillis
Jack H. Harris
John Landis
The Schlockthropus
Jonathan A. Flint
John Chambers
National Guard Captain
Charles Villiers
Cal
Eric Allison
Joe Puzman
Enrica Blankey
Mrs. Binerman
Joh Landis
Eliza Roberts
Tom Alvich

Critic Reviews for Schlock

All Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (2) | DVD (9)

A goofy, low-budget joy.

July 6, 2003 Comment

Gerry Shamray

Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

Goofily amusing early effort from a solid comedy director.

July 25, 2002 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

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A monkey type monster falls inlove with a blind girl who in return thinks he is just a big dog of cause this monkey has been terrorizing the neighborhood and once he kidnaps the girl things finally go to far cause now the army is finally after him and aims to bring this bad monkey down. One of the earlier films of John

July 10, 2010

ken j

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Super low-budget directorial debut for John Landis. Some will think it one of the worst movies ever made, others will find it very quirky and funny. I'm in the latter camp. It also has one of the earliest sp fx make ups by the great make up artist Rick Baker. The Schlock boogie is one of the funniest movie scenes from the 70's.

August 13, 2011