Schlock

"A monster comedy about an ape-man who goes bananas until he falls in love with a beautiful blind girl who thinks he's a dog..." -World Magazine

Meet Schlockthropus, a prehistoric apeman on a grisly suburban rampage of murder, mayhem, and banana peels. But when the mad missing link falls in love with a beautiful blind girl, he learns some cruel lessons about evolution, romance, and movie theater etiquette. Can a misunderstood monster find peace in an uncaring world or will beauty ultimately kill this beast? This is unstoppable horror at its hairiest. This is Schlock!


Filled with savage sight gags, wild parodies and goofy humor, this rarely-seen comedy marked the feature film debut of writer/director John Landis (The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf In London) who also stars in the title role, wearing a remarkable ape suit created by multiple Oscar® winning make-up designer Rick Baker (Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes, Men In Black, An American Werewolf In London).
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Southern California is being 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. Schlocky moves easily through a strangely stupid suburban society, the members of which don't seem to see him as a hairy menace. Young Mindy Binermen (Eliza Garrett), blind for the last three years, falls in love with him thinking he's a dog. When an operation to restore her eyesight proves successful, she discovers her pet is a lovesick gorilla being chased by the National Guard.