15 Films So Bad They're Good

8. Monster Dog

Alice Cooper is no stranger to horror, but his first leading role is strictly for aficionados of strange cinema.

Directed by the incomparable Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2), Monster Dog delivers everything you’d expect from an Italian cheapie – bad acting, terrible dubbing and a nonsense plot. Cleverly cast against type as a rock star, Cooper returns to his hometown after a twenty-year hiatus, his arrival coinciding with a spate of grisly homicides.

This is too close to home for Coop, whose father was stricken with “a heart disease that transforms the patient into some kind of madman, a beast that goes howling at the moon” and went on his own rampage twenty years earlier. A torch-bearing mob eventually curtailed his lunar activities but, naturally enough, their ancestors don’t believe in coincidences and arrive at the singer’s house with their guns drawn, so picture their surprise when the real monster turns up to pick them off one by one.