“The first musical monster movie in years.”
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.
John Landis
Schlock
Saul Kahan
Detective Sgt. Wino
Joseph Piantadosi
Ivan
Eliza Roberts
Mindy Binerman
Tom Alvich
Torn Cop
Walter Levine
Police Thief
Harriet Medin
Mrs. Blinerman
Eric Sinclair
Joe Putzman (as Eric Allison)
Charles Villiers
Cal
Ralph Baker
Dying Man
Schlock is a comedy, horror, science fiction film released in 1973 exploring themes of ape. Directed by John Landis, it stars John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi. 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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