This movie begins with an explosion of a laboratory in a remote part of the Pacific Northwest. As it turns out this government lab was conducting secret genetic experiments on animals and two of its creatures managed to escape. The first is a unique golden retriever which is extremely intelligent and can communicate to a certain degree with human beings. The second creature is a horrible monster which is equally intelligent but is emotionally deranged and kills everything in its path. And the one thing it wants to kill above everything else is the golden retriever. That being the case, it tracks the dog to a barn where a young woman named "Tracey" (Lala Sloatman) just happens to be working. Being the hostile creature it is, it immediately attacks her and then kills her father when he attempts to come to her aid. Fortunately for Tracey, however, is the fact that the police arrive just in time to scare it away. After that, because of her injuries, she is taken to a hospital for medical care. However, when her boyfriend "Travis Cornell" (Corey Haim) comes to see her he discovers that she has been taken to an undisclosed location by mysterious people who turn out to be NSO agents trying to keep a lid on everything--and they will stop at nothing to prevent any information from getting out. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a relatively standard sci-fi/horror film which was pretty much predictable from start to finish. That said, while it certainly wasn't a great movie by any means, I suppose it was worth the time spent and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.
