Monster Dog – The Lord of dogs

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Monster Dog – The Lord of dogs It is a 1984 film, directed by Claudio Fragasso and starring Alice Cooper and Victoria Vera.

Rockstar Vincent Raven, together with his partner and with a group of dancers, goes to the dilapidated villa of his deceased parents to shoot a video clip. Once you arrive at your destination, she will have to deal with some mysterious killings and an ancient family curse. To make the already lively living room more unpleasant, even a gang of motorized thugs will arrive, who will force Vincent to improvise executioner to save his life and that of the beloved.

Rockstar Alice Cooper played the protagonist of the film.

Before directing Monster dog , Claudio Fragasso began as a screenwriter in the mid -seventies and in the eighties he often worked with Bruno Mattei in women in prison film out of the horror bleeding. [first] After co-Diretto films with Mattei without being accredited, he went to Spain to shoot personally Monster Dog – The Lord of dogs . [first] Fragasso was contacted by the Dutch producer Eduard Salui following the viewing of the film Rats – night of terror , also co-director with Mattei. [first] Salui suggested making a new animal -themed film to be distributed for the home video market, inviting Fragasso and his wife Rossella Drudi to write a script influenced by horror such as An American werewolf in London It is The howl . [first] Monster dog It was part of an agreement of two films with the executive manufacturer Carlos Aured, together with Alien Predators shot immediately after. [first]

For the leading role was chosen Alice Cooper, an American musician known for his relationship with the horror and the macabre imagination. [first] Cooper spoke of this experience in an interview with the newspaper The Georgia Straight In 1986, stating that he wanted to make a low -cost and squalid film, and that “they told me that he would never get out in cinemas, and I said, ‘Fantastic. Just one of those films that you can rent in the video library.’ And they said it would be what it would be, so I did it … they gave me a lot of money to do it [laughs]. I think I was the largest part of the budget. ” [2] In 2012 he said he took part in the film immediately after leaving rehabilitation for his alcoholism, to see if he was “able to work in a sober way”. [3] Carlos Aured spoke positively about the collaboration with Cooper, revealing that the musician made only two requests to the production: a supply of cold coca-Clato and a video recorder in his room to be able to watch old western films. [first] Aured also stated that Cooper took the weekend of filming to play golf. [first] The actress Victoria Vera reflected later that the film was “miserable and unpleasant, but I had a lot of fun together with Alice; she is a truly fabulous and fun person.” [4] Fragasso also remembered Cooper with affection, saying “I developed a good employment relationship with Cooper … [he] has a passion for horror films, and every night we would have watched them together as if we were children!” [4]

The film was shot in five weeks in Torrelodones, Spain. [first] Fragasso said that the special effects caused many delays during filming. [5] The shots with special effects were all shot in the last week, including the realization of a large puppet head for the monster dog which broke during the first scene in which it was used. [5] This forced the screenwriters to rewrite part of the script. [5]

Two songs in the film were composed of the Spanish Aragiator and Composer Teddy Bautista. [6] Fragasso said Eduard Salui mounted the film without his permission, stating that about 20 minutes of film had been cut and that “what circulated on VHS and DVD is not the film I shot”, underlining that all the scenes that He thought better were eliminated. [5] Fragasso and Drudi released several statements later, still reiterating that about 20 minutes had been cut to make the rhythm of the film faster. [5] [6] The film accredited four additional mounts. [6]

Despite the Internet Movie database and other sources of reference suggest that the film was released in Italy in December 1984, Monster Dog – The Lord of dogs It has never been presented for the Italian censorship visa. [4] [6] The film was distributed for the first time in Home Video in the United States by the Trans World Entertainment on June 15, 1986. [6] [7] In Spain it was distributed in theaters by Union Films S.A. On August 16, 1988. [first] [7] He collected an equivalent of 128,737.53 euros for a total of 53,438 paying spectators. [6]

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The two songs in the film starring Alice Cooper remained unpublished until 1999, when they appeared in the box The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper . [6] In 2012, a single vinyl single of the two limited edition songs of 100 copies was published. [6]

  1. ^ a b c d It is f g h i j Short, p. 131. .
  2. ^ ( IN ) Steve Newton, Alice Cooper Talks Heavy Metal, Sleazy Horror, and Getting Back in the Game with Constrictor , in The Georgia Straight , 7 November 1986. URL consulted on March 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ ( IN ) Henry Northmore, Interview: Alice Cooper , in The List , 17 October 2012. URL consulted on March 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ a b c Senn, p. 157 .
  5. ^ a b c d It is Short, p. 132. .
  6. ^ a b c d It is f g h Short, p. 133. .
  7. ^ a b Short, p. 130 .

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