Okay I wasn't expecting much but for a premise about a clean cut all American middle class family adopting a dog that is literally the son of Satan you can be forgiven for thinking this was going to be a story that is so tally mental it might have something going for it . Alongside the star billing of Richard Crenna there might have been some saving graces but this is a flat and disappointing TVM
The problem with DEVIL DOG is that it lacks any kind of bite . Graphic violence wouldn't be allowed to be broadcast but even so very little of anything much happens . The devil dog manages to hypnotise another dog in to doing that old party trick of pulling a table cloth off a table leaving the plates intact , hypnotizing a Mexican housemaid who like all Mexican housemaids is called Maria and hypnotizing the master of the house and that's nearly all the demonic spirit it unleashes on to the World . Honestly if they were getting menaced by Cliff Richard they'd probably be in more danger . In short even for a TVM this so called horror is fairly toothless
The problem with DEVIL DOG is that it lacks any kind of bite . Graphic violence wouldn't be allowed to be broadcast but even so very little of anything much happens . The devil dog manages to hypnotise another dog in to doing that old party trick of pulling a table cloth off a table leaving the plates intact , hypnotizing a Mexican housemaid who like all Mexican housemaids is called Maria and hypnotizing the master of the house and that's nearly all the demonic spirit it unleashes on to the World . Honestly if they were getting menaced by Cliff Richard they'd probably be in more danger . In short even for a TVM this so called horror is fairly toothless