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  • The Appeal Of This Film Lies In Watching Max Take Out Bad People on Random 'Man's Best Friend' Is A Charmingly Stupid '90s Horror Movi

    (#4) The Appeal Of This Film Lies In Watching Max Take Out Bad People

    Slasher films often get a bad rap for being "body count" movies where the villain takes out various unlikeable characters - and some horror movies definitely fit that mold. Man's Best Friend is one of them. While Max is certainly the monster, and Dr. Jarret is both co-protagonist and bad guy, almost all of Max's victims (with one or two exceptions) are characters we've been primed not to like.

    From a purse-snatching mugger to smug and unhelpful cops to an offensive junkyard owner, most people who encounter Max are jerks, either to him directly or to Lori. Even the postal worker, who probably gets worse than he deserves, seems to take some delight in macing Max. Meanwhile, Lori's boyfriend comes off as kind of whiny, even though he really doesn't do anything all that bad until after Max has already chewed through his brake lines.

  • Ally Sheedy’s Character Is A Textbook Example Of A Passive Protagonist on Random 'Man's Best Friend' Is A Charmingly Stupid '90s Horror Movi

    (#9) Ally Sheedy’s Character Is A Textbook Example Of A Passive Protagonist

    Although Ally Sheedy was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in Man's Best Friend (she lost to Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day), her character doesn't actually do much. In the film's opening moments, Lori shows a lot of initiative as she breaks into the lab and bullies her camera operator into filming some footage for the exposé that they're planning to film. Once Dr. Jarret catches them in the lab, however, and they flee with Max in tow, Sheedy's character takes a back seat to the motives of those around her.

    She takes Max home, seemingly without any concern that an animal rescued from a lab where unknown tests were being performed might be dangerous for more prosaic reasons than the threat of the animal being a genetically engineered predator. For example, he might have contagious diseases about which she knows nothing. Nevertheless, aside from forming an unbreakable bond with Max, Lori is pushed around by the actions of other characters until the film's final denouement.

    Even the relationship between Lori and Max, which makes up the heart of the film's emotional arc, feels perfunctory. Lori seems much more heartbroken by Max's demise than she is by Max attacking her live-in boyfriend.

  • There’s A Scene Of Forcible Dog-On-Dog Relations  on Random 'Man's Best Friend' Is A Charmingly Stupid '90s Horror Movi

    (#8) There’s A Scene Of Forcible Dog-On-Dog Relations 

    One of the things that makes Man's Best Friend such an oddity is its tone, which often feels disjointed, even for a movie from 1993. The juxtaposition of horror and humor worked for some people, such as Jake Dee who, writing for Arrow in the Head, praised the film's "waggish sense of dark humor."

    Nowhere is this odd and often inappropriate humor more apparent than in a played-for-laughs scene where Max pursues and ultimately mates with the neighbor's unwilling Collie - a scene that pays off in the end with a brood of puppies, one of which looks just like Max. In case you weren't sure whether it was supposed to be funny, the scene is set to Paul Anka's 1960 hit "Puppy Love."

  • Max Pees Acid For Unknown Reasons on Random 'Man's Best Friend' Is A Charmingly Stupid '90s Horror Movi

    (#10) Max Pees Acid For Unknown Reasons

    On top of all the other abilities he has as a result of his genetic manipulation, Max also appears to have acidic urine. We see this the first time when he lifts his leg on a fire hydrant and the metal subsequently smokes and sizzles. Later, he uses this technique against Lori's boyfriend Perry, who we are led to dislike even though his worst decisions occur after Max tries to knock him off by chewing through his brake lines.

    Which animal Max is supposed to have gotten this particular trait from is never discussed.

  • The Opening Credits Play Over An Intense Montage Of Old-Timey Dog Pictures  on Random 'Man's Best Friend' Is A Charmingly Stupid '90s Horror Movi

    (#2) The Opening Credits Play Over An Intense Montage Of Old-Timey Dog Pictures 

    Even before the film's cold open, we're treated to a montage of classical paintings featuring dogs - and sometimes other animals - that veer from normal to sinister as Joel Goldsmith's melodramatic score swells. Goldsmith later went on to compose the music for several of the Stargate TV series.

    By the time the credits end, however, the paintings have returned to "normal," and we close on an image of a little girl holding a puppy. This foreshadows not just the film's arc, but also its final scene.

  • It Plays Into The Anti-Animal Testing Movement That Gained Momentum In The '90s  on Random 'Man's Best Friend' Is A Charmingly Stupid '90s Horror Movi

    (#6) It Plays Into The Anti-Animal Testing Movement That Gained Momentum In The '90s 

    In the '90s, the debate over the pros and cons of animal testing was raging in America and around the world, and Man's Best Friend was far from the only horror movie to wade into the fray. In 1996, just three years after the film's release, various animal protection groups formed the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics, while in 1998, Britain banned the use of animal testing in the manufacture of cosmetic products and ingredients.

    In the film, Ally Sheedy plays a journalist who intends to exploit this groundswell of interest in animal rights by doing an exposé on the inhumane practices of a genetics laboratory. Man's Best Friend shows cruel vivisections performed on animals and puts most of the pro-animal testing arguments in the mouth of Lance Henriksen's character, a morally dubious scientist with delusions of grandeur.

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Man's Best Friend is an American horror comedy film, released in 1993. You may not have watched it or heard of it, because this movie is not very famous, it is really an old film. The official tagline was "Nature created him. Science perfected him. But no one can control him." The film's reception was negative, most people think it's a charmingly stupid movie.

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