A Boy and His Dog

• Genre: PostApoc
• Release Year: 1975
• Director: L.Q. Jones
• Writers: Harlan Ellison, L.Q. Jones
• Running Time: 90min
• Rating: R (nudity, violence)
• Reviewed by: Vradin on Thu 20 Sep 07

Offical Blurb:
Vic (a young Don Johnson) roams a postapocalyptic wasteland accompanied by his telepathic, ever-grumbling dog, eventually winding up in the clutches of a female-dominated underground society that wants his sperm. This low-budget cult film remains darkly humorous and unflinchingly brutal as its characters face difficult choices -- and the end of the world as they know it.

My Synopsis:
After the nuclear destruction of World War IV, Vic wanders the dust bowl that once was Phoenix, AR with his dog, Blood. Blood and Vic have a telepathic bond allowing them to talk to each other and allowing the dog to inform Vic of the results of Blood's other ability, to locate women with a sort of radar. Vic is a fairly sex crazed adolescent who urges Blood (with popcorn) to find him as many women as possible to satisfy his lust. This radar also allows Blood to sense the presence of other people/beings such as the Screamers. They don't go into depth about what the Screamers are but everyone is deathly afraid of them.

In their travels they come across Quilla June Holmes, a pretty young girl sent to the surface to entice back a man, Vic. The residents of The Underground, a society almost completely cut off from the surface who live by some very strange tenants, want to use Vic to repopulate their failing society. After Vic gets trapped in the Underground he is rescued by Quilla who has some ideas of her own as to Vic's purpose in The Underground.

What I liked:

Rating:

• Genre Feel: 3
• Acting: 2
• Effects: 3
• Production Quaility:: 3