Man's Best Friend (1993) ***

John Lafia's Man's Best Friend (1993) is a goofy but immensely entertaining Cujo (1983) (review) meets The Terminator (1984) mashup. I hadn't seen the film since probably a year or two after it was released and I didn't remember it well until it all started to come back during the runtime. This was my first viewing with an audience and it was a ton of fun. 

Lafia (co-writer of 1988's Child's Play and director of 1990's Child's Play 2) lined up a lot of talent (with long lists of screen credits) in front of and behind the camera including stars Ally Sheedy and Lance Henriksen, cinematographer Mark Irwin (who loves horror and comedy, and horror comedies; seriously, look at his filmography), and makeup effects artist Kevin Yagher (who refined Freddy Krueger's makeup in 1985's A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (review), worked on the third (review) and fourth (review) NOES entries, and is the designer and executor of the Chucky doll). 

If you're in the mood for a movie where a genetically modified dog terrorizes neighborhood children, kills a mailman and buries the body, camouflages, grows long nails and climbs a tree, eats a cat whole, and pisses acid—it's all here.