Schlock | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | February 16, 2022
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It seems to be trying to live up to its namesake and misses most of its marks. But did enough to launch Landis into the film world.
| genre | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi |
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| synopsis | 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. |
| lead actors | John Landis | Saul Kahan | Joseph Piantadosi | Eliza Roberts | Tom Alvich | Walter Levine | Harriet Medin | Eric Sinclair | Charles Villiers | Ralph Baker | John Chambers | Gene Fox | Richard Gillis | Forrest J. Ackerman | Susan Weiser | Jonathan Flint | Donald F. Glut | Amy Schireson | Emile Hamaty | Phillip Levine | Shirley Levine | Mary Cortiz | Ivan Lepper | Mitchell Tadross | Carl Stone | Tonda Marton | Neil Forn | Dana Sue Collins | Harry Goins | Norman Crawford | Jackie Bonnhein | Robert E. Collins | Belinda Folsey | Ryan Folsey | Patty Holcomb | Ian Kranitz | George O'Hanlon Jr. | Billy Record | Edward Summer | Stuart Weiss | Kevin Collins |
| director | John Landis |