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4.7/10   1,061 votes
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Director:
Jon Hess
Writers (WGA):
Dean R. Koontz (novel)
Bill Freed (screenplay) ...
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Contact:
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Release Date:
December 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Secret experiment, Unstoppable monster, Deadly mistake... more
Plot:
Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Before the Oscars, They Belonged to Us, Part 2
 (From Dread Central. 25 February 2009, 2:52 AM, PST)

User Comments:
The movie doesn't compare more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Ironside ... Lem Johnson
Christopher Cary ... T.V. Newscaster (as Christopher Carey)
Graeme Campbell ... Man on Boat
Dan O'Dowd ... First T.V. Reporter

Lala Sloatman ... Tracey (as Lala)
Corey Haim ... Travis Cornell
Dale Wilson ... Bill Keeshan
Blu Mankuma ... Cliff
Colleen Winton ... Deputy Porter

Duncan Fraser ... Sheriff Walt Gaines
Barbara Williams ... Nora Cornell
Lou Bollo ... Man by Stream

Jason Priestley ... Boy on Bike
Matt Hill ... Boy on Bike
Andrew Morkey ... Boy on Bike (as Andrew Markey)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min | Germany:87 min (DVD version)
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Paul Haggis wrote the original screenplay. By the time the movie was greenlighted, the Writer's Guild Strike hit and Haggis refused to do any further writing on the movie during the strike. Production was passed to Canadian producer Damien Lee who rewrote the script. Haggis read the script and took his name off it - taking credit instead as "Bill Freed", his WGA pseudonym, and insisted Damien Lee take credit for his work. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by Watchers III (1994) more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
The movie doesn't compare, 1 August 2003
Author: Eric from united states

I rented this movie because I thought (and still think) that the book was a masterpiece. The book is still on my top five novels ever list. So when I rented the film I expected it to fail in comparision. But not on this level. Travis is a Kid? I mean come ON. In the book the guy was ex-delta with plenty of tricks up his sleeve. In the movie he's a sixteen or so year old kid who seemed to be taught everything about traps and guns by the age of 10 when his dad died. I'm from the south and I don't know half the crap the kid was taught. Hell i was shooting guns at seven sure. 22s. BB guns. Not even a very entertaining movie. If you want to see a Dean Koontz book that made a good movie watch Phantoms.

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