Watchers

Horror novelist Dean R Koontz was extremely unhappy with this adaptation of his work, though he had plenty of warning with bargain-basement producers Roger Corman and Damian Lee attaching themselves to the project. All hope of redemption disappeared with Corey Haim cast as the teen hero who finds an extremely intelligent dog, not knowing that it is the result of a government experiment that also produced a pursuing sasquatch-like animal (or is it a guy in a gorilla suit?). Once again Michael Ironside, playing the usual government agent who comes in to try to cover things up, manages to give a stereotyped and poorly written character some menace and personality. Dark, murky and unexciting.