A Boy and His Dog

This Harlan Ellison adaptation makes for an interesting cult film: a post-apocalyptic tale, set in the year 2024, follows a young desert dweller named Vic (Don Johnson of future 'Miami Vice' and 'Nash Bridges' fame) and his faithful, if rather disdainful,... Full review

Damned if I know what gravitated LQ Jones to Harlan Ellison's novella of the title let alone to adapt it into a film. A veteran character actor, he's the one, for better or worse (for me the better), responsible for A... Full review

A Boy and His Dog is one of the most entertaining post-apocalyptic future movies ever made. You know why? Because it has no taste and in that, it has no inhibitions about the questions it asked about what will happen... Full review

This adaptation of Harlan Ellison's popular sci-fi novella is not your typical futuristic saga. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, but the film's tone is anything but serious. In fact, it is a curious black comedy, very funny,... Full review

After WW III Vic (Don Johnson) and his dog Blood (played by Tiger from "The Brady Bunch" TV show) travel around looking for women for Vic to rape and food for Blood. They talk telepathically--Vic hears Blood's voice in his... Full review

1975's "A Boy And His Dog" defies categorization, much like the outspoken author who penned its Nebula-winning source novella. Harlan Ellison has resisted the genre label for his entire 900+ short story career ("call me a 'science fiction' writer, and... Full review

I thought this movie was delightful in a very, very dark and offbeat way. Yes, a feel for evil runs throughout "A Boy and His Dog", but it is an anarchic, gleeful kind of evil. It goes way beyond taken... Full review

*** CONTAINS SPOILERS ***What a delightfully evil film! I fell that the film can be experienced on at least two levels: first (really, for males only) at a base level. It is simply fun to see a dashing rogue cavort... Full review

Vic and his telepathically talking sheep dog, Blood, travel post-apocalyptic Arizona. Besides scavenging for food and sex, this movie features old, terrible porn clips, evil Amish looking people with clown makeup and possibly the greatest pun in movie history. Blood... Full review

If you like B-movies... movies that are not in the same class with films like CITIZEN KANE, 2001, GODFATHER... and you like to just watch something that is not your typical story, then A BOY AND HIS DOG is for... Full review

The film is riddled with an unmistakably misogynistic bent, and can't be bothered to supply one single likable soul. His companion, a condescending canine named Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire), helps Vic sniff out hot desert poontang in exchange for food (or "comestibles," as the extraordinarily supercilious Blood might call them). ... Full Review

Q. Jones, one of Sam Pekinpah's favorite character actors, directed only one major film, and one has to wonder....Jones touts his own horn so successfully, the commentary track scarcely needs Champlin's criticism..... ... Full Review

Great movie. The Road Warrior " owes more than a little to this great film. This is a one of a kind movie that gets better with every viewing. A Boy and His Dog " deserves its Cult Classic status. It is a wonderfully funny performance. ... Full Review

But A Boy and His Dog lacks the density of a Peckinpah film--in spite of some clever ideas and a few well-wrought images, it seems too schematic.... ... Full Review

The folks at Lumivision have followed their Laserdisc release of the early seventies cult favorite A BOY AND HIS DOG ($30) with a special edition DVD release. Both the Laserdisc and the DVD use the same Letterboxed transfer which restores the film to its original 2.35:1 Techniscope aspect ratio. ... Full Review

Chihiro's Father: A new home and a new school? It is pretty scary. Chihiro: I think I can handle it. . Also fun was Blood's last line director L.Q. Jones wrote for A Boy and His Dog; A line that ... Full Article

Based on Harlan Ellison's novella, this covers familiar territory - vigorously and imaginatively - as feuding clans of scavengers prowl the desolate American landscape left by a nuclear holocaust. ... Full Article

America is a wasteland, filled with murderous rover-packs, radiation ridden mutants, and solos like Vic just trying to get by. Vic has an edge, though: his telepathic dog, Blood, who is able to smell out women and fight with equal... ... Full Article

MUMBAI: Imperia Entertainment, Inc., in conjunction with its sale of an equity interest in Muller Media, Inc., has acquired Muller's film and television library, by assignment of all copyrights owned by Muller to Imperia, in exchange for a royalty agreement. ... Full Article

This movie pissed off a lot of people when it was first released, and it will still piss them off today. The story of a post-apocalyptic world where water is scarce and women are scarcer, the movie version of Harlan... ... Full Article