

Schlock
1973-03-01 · 80 min · ★ 5.6
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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- Directors
- John Landis
- Production companies
- Gazotskie Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 60,000
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John LandisSchlock
Eliza RobertsMindy Binerman
Harriet MedinMrs. Blinerman
Eric SinclairJoe Putzman (as Eric Allison)
Forrest J. AckermanMan in cinema
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