Schlock

Mar 1, 1973

1h 20m

★ 5.6

The first musical monster movie in years.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Gazotskie Productions

Schlock Trailers

Cast

Schlock

John Landis

Detective Sgt. Wino

Saul Kahan

Ivan

Joseph Piantadosi

Mindy Binerman

Eliza Roberts

Torn Cop

Tom Alvich

Police Thief

Walter Levine

Mrs. Blinerman

Harriet Medin

Joe Putzman (as Eric Allison)

Eric Sinclair

Cal

Charles Villiers

Dying Man

Ralph Baker

National Guard Captain

John Chambers

Billy

Gene Fox

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