Review of Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) by Lace — 02 May 2008

Less a movie per se, and more a study in just how many outfits someone can make from a tablecloth, and old couch, and some lamp shades. If people actually dressed like that in the '70s, I am so glad I never had to live through that era. But I digress...

Devil Dog is a mess. Sometimes, a ludicrous mess, but not often enough to make it worthwhile. The acting is purely high school-level, the characters are about as two-dimensional as tissue paper, and the directing/editing is like a step by step example of how NOT to make a good movie. Oh yes, and the actor playing the father looked like nothing so much as an older version of Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs." I kept expecting him to spout off a line about how taking care of a hellhound is a surprisingly clean business, apart from the dead bodies.

But yeah. In a nutshell, Devil Dog has a few MST-able moments, but nowhere near enough of them to make it a movie to be watched for that purpose. And in terms of the movie on its own merits, I've certainly seen worse, but it's by no means good. Devil Dog just sort of wallows in mediocrity.