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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  MONSTER DOG – Well, it's a Claudio Fragasso movie, so make of that what you will. In some ways, 'Monster Dog' is a thing of real bizarreness – it centres on Alice Cooper (who for a good half of the runtime looks like someone's dad), a familial werewolf curse, and a town full of runaway dogs which kill people now and then. Alice is back on his home turf to re-shoot a rock video with some pals who all suffer from an extreme case of Euro-woodenness (I'm talking about the acting). His enthusiasm takes a dive when he finds out that he might be the son of a wolf-man, but, being a seasoned pro, he does the video thing and changes into his stage gear, which at least gives him an excuse to run around looking like a middle aged Alice Cooper impersonator for the rest of the film. A posse of dudes who look like they might be in a sort-of Spag Western turn up and do some shooting until the tragic end. 'Monster Dog' has all the ingredients necessary for essential late Italian trash badness, but it doesn't quite ripen into the classic bilge it might've been. There's a little too much lag in places, and the exploitative aspects aren't mined fully. Nevertheless, being a Fragasso film, it wears its lameness on its sleeve and delivers plenty of threadbare charm |
Alice was going thru a bad period when 'Monster Dog was made. He was drinking much too much, was not eating and had become dangerously thin. His family had checked him into a hospital, but before Doctors could treat his alcoholism, they had to stablise his physical condition - he is critically malnourished and close to death. He was diagnosed with Cirrhosis of the liver, and was in hospital for two and a half weeks, drying out, and he realised that he had to stop drinking and went cold turkey. A few months later, his wife Cheryl had moved out of the family home, and had filed for divorce. Alice had 'lost interest, and was considering retiring from the music business and one of the motivations behind him doing the 'Monster Dog' project was to regain a zest for life, and to get him back into a working mode