What can I say! I love low budget gritty sci-fi. I think this movie would make a great double feature with Dark Star and Mad Max. Everyone is so mean and self interested. I really liked the portrayal of the screamers, with such a low budget I think it was very wise not to show them on screen. I sometimes prefer movies that imply things instead of explaining everything. Topeka is such a strange place too.

TERRIBLE production values and pacing, but a FANTASTIC performance from all involved. Bleak and hopeful at the same time.

Odd, odd, odd. A film of two halves with what seems like a lot of unexplained detail. Not as bad as it promises to be from the opening 20 minutes but still, a few neat ideas aside, not worth much as a film. Haven't read the book.

Overrated post-apocalyptic futurism roughly midway between Zardoz and Mad Max. Maybe slightly above average for sci-fi, but that really isn't saying much. The moral of the movie seems to be dog > woman but maybe it's just me.

pieces of it can be rather boring and it has fairly bad production value, but it has a plot with great potential and a fantastic ending.

First of all, you gotta accept the telepathic dog, once you get past that premise you should have a good time. The banter between man and dog is quite hilarious at times. When the second goal of our heroes besides surviving is hunting babes, it proves amusing yet interesting. Underground people are very reminiscent of vault dwellers and any influence for Fallout is good enough for me. Best ending line ever, no exceptions.

Laughable attempt at post-apocalyptic dystopia. Probably the best setting for a budget as meager as this, but they still can't pull anything out of it.

It feels like an elaborate homage to A Clockwork Orange with enough dark humor in it to make it a pleasant movie-watching experience.

I think we all know, deep down, that Vic did right.

Some of the dialogue between the dog and the main character was interesting. I like the weird as hell premise, like talking to the dog, but the movie has terrible pacing that makes you go "huh?" But if you're in the mood for an odd post-apocalypse, this isn't bad. The two halves of the movie are quite different from one another, but honestly, the movie was more interesting to me in the first half (even if it was never actually great).

The first hour is relatively straightforward post-apocalyptic fare, but I wasn't prepared for the Zardoz-level weirdness that would follow. And how could a twisted bastard like me nót laugh at that dark ending? The unappealing characters, horrible soundtrack and cheap production values are tough to swallow though.

There's a lot of remakes out there that are just unnecessary, but this is a movie that desperately needs a remake. A shot for shot remake, because this has the best post apocalyptic plot ever. But the quality of the movie makes it almost unbearable. If you can trudge through the poor quality, poor sound, and slight slowness you'll be in for various great adventures leading up to the best ending in movie history in my opinion.

Creates a believable and bizarre world on a low budget but ends just as it's gotten interesting. I'll give it points for not having the dog's voice revealed to be all in Don Johnson's head, a twist I was convinced was coming.

Just read the short story, which is excellent. The movie... ugh.

Quite good (and faithful to the story)--except for that Benji dog. Even if that's how it was described by Ellison, they shoulda changed it (it just won't play on the screen).

pretty cool

Underappreciated film full of great dark humor.

It's weird for the sake of being weird, which I can respect. The ending is just fantastic.

On the edge of being a great movie.

This is so nice surprise... Movie is so cynic sometimes, have great dialogs.... Great little trash movie...

The movie takes a rather large turn maybe halfway through, and essentially contains two fully imagined worlds. Funny stuff.

Great film.

This is the best thin Don Johnson will ever do. A REALLY strange vision of the future, especially the people who live in the bomb shelter

A true love story in the most honest sense; perhaps the only one to ever make me cry. And you've gotta love Jason Robards in anything he does.

This film should have been right up my alley--gritty, 70's, sci-fi. But it is flawed, and I want to be very clear: Its problems are NOT its low budget. A well-written and directed film can overcome budget. Here the issue is distractions. Examples: the "Screamers" are a crucial plot point but are never explained; the Topekans wear very distracting clown paint, upstaging their murderous nature. Had the serious themes not been overshadowed by directorial bumbling, this could have been a classic.

This movie has one of the coolest premises ever: a horny boy and a telepathic dog are striving for survival in a post-apocalyptic world. What I found extremely fascinating in this movie was not the idiosyncratic plot or characters (which are really good), but the way this piece of cinema constantly changes. One minute you're looking at a PoMo western, the other - at a coming of age drama that turns into an Orwellian dystopia. Seriousness, playfulness, sex, sci-fi and irony - it's all there!

Has lots of flaws but I kinda liked the relationship between Vic and Blood. Also the ending is just brilliant.