Killer Dog aka Play Dead (1981)
You know a movies cheap when it has two published titles. And you know it's even better when the movie is filmed in 1981, but wasn't released till 1986...and by Troma, no less. Already this movie has three strikes against it.
Having said all that, this movie lives up to its curse. Hell, at 25 minutes in, there's a long shot of the microphone hanging from the ceiling during a horribly edited love scene. Long story short, Yvonne De Carlo of the Munsters fame stars as a jilted lover hell bent on revenge...with a dog. She trains the dog to go on a murder spree...a really dumb one. No, this isn't Cujo, and not really violent. All the deaths look like accidents, and there's an implied supernatural element via Satan, but it's never really forced. In the end, the dog kills pretty much everyone. In fact, he tries to kill Yvonne twice!
Ug, I need a better class of horror, but I think I've seen them already.
What a coincidence, I also watched a movie made in 1981 about a dog...of sorts.
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