Schlock

Schlock

1973 · 80 min · EN · PG · 5.8 (49 votes)
Dir. John Landis · Starring John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Eliza Roberts, Tom Alvich, Walter Levine · Music David Gibson

The first musical monster movie in years.

ComedyHorrorScience Fiction

A quiet suburb in Southern California is 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.

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A bizarre, low-budget creature feature that blends unsettling horror with outright absurdity. It's a uniquely weird trip into suburban nightmares, driven by a primal, ape-like terror and a darkly comedic sense of the ridiculous.

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