Man's Best Friend (1993)

Nomination Year: 2007

SYNOPSIS: If you mixed two parts Cujo with two parts Syngenor and one part Ally Sheedy, you might end up with Man's Best Friend. Intrepid reporter Ally sneaks into a genetics lab run by the evil Lance Henriksen to do a story on animal experimentation and ends up rescuing a dog, which she takes home and adopts. The dog bonds with her and is sweet and affectionate to her, while systematically killing everyone else in the movie when she's not looking. Actually, as horror movies go, this is a pretty good one. In fact, at one point Jenna was saying that it might be too good for the Smithees. Mere seconds later, Lance explains how the dog was spliced with chameleon DNA, which allows it to turn invisible ... which pretty much shot down that idea.

Greg Pearson

Smithee Award Nominations

"Alas, Poor Yorick"
Meaner--and More Vindictive--Than a Junkyard Dog Larry has captured the supersoldier dog, and has it tied up on a chain. He taunts it, threatening it with a blowtorch. It breaks free of its chain, and they have a rather brief fight. Larry burns the dog, but the dog gets the upper "hand" when Larry leaves himself vulnerable in his special place....	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
John Lafia	writer of Man's Best Friend; also directed three episodes of the Babylon 5 television show

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Ally Sheedy	<Not Yet in Database>	best known as one of the mid-1980s "Brat Pack"
Lance Henriksen	<Not Yet in Database>	Bishop in Alien(s), Frank Black on "Millennium," Ace Hanlon in The Quick and the Dead...he was in The Terminator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and in a lot of Bad Movies, too! (Like the Piranha, Pumpkinhead, and Black Ops debacles.)


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