"The Room" of Talking Animal Movies

February 12, 2023 5:24 PM

Normally the guys at Bloodbath TV (formerly Bloodbath & Beyond) riff on horror movies, but they've made an exception for an absolute baffler of a film called Love on a Leash. It's about a sassy talking dog named Alvin Flang who magically becomes a man each night, falls in love with a woman and spends half his time as her pet and half his time as her boyfriend. Things only get weirder from there.

The Bloodbath boys are a team of affable Canadian goofballs who like to talk about scary movies while they get sloshed. They're part Siskel and Ebert, part Bob and Doug MckEnzie. They've been at it or many years, and recent highlights include The Killing Tree (a movie about a killer Christmas tree), Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl (from the director of Chopping Mall) and the CGI atrocity Bigfoot vs. Megaladon. They're never better than when they've gotten hold of a real stinker of a film, and Love on a Leash may well be their worst yet.

posted by Ursula Hitler (13 comments total)

To be fair, a lot of boyfriends are dogs way more than half the time.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:42 PM on February 12, 2023 [7 favorites]

I'm not doubting that it's weird, but is it 'And Then' weird?

(The movie being talked about in the above link is the notoriously baffling Robot in the Family - see also the reactions of Red Letter Media and Gooseworx.
posted by BiggerJ at 5:44 PM on February 12, 2023 [1 favorite]

How Did This Get Made? also did an episode on Love on a Leash last fall.
posted by Inkslinger at 5:49 PM on February 12, 2023 [6 favorites]

Similar in premise to the Switch game Kitty Love, where the player is a character who spends their nights magically transformed into a cat who gets taken in by handsome single men, and then uses everything they learn in the mens' apartments to date them during the day, hoping for "true love's kiss" to break the spell.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:53 PM on February 12, 2023 [6 favorites]

So, half of Ladyhawke, then. (Which kind of defeats the whole point of Ladyhawke, but anyway.)
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:50 PM on February 12, 2023 [3 favorites]

Not, I suppose, to be confused with Unleashed, a rom-com where Kate's cat and dog first turn into men, then suitors?
posted by bartleby at 9:06 PM on February 12, 2023

Not, I suppose, like Smell the Glove, which demonstrates that instead, by having the man on the leash, there is indeed a fine line between 'clever' and 'stupid'?
posted by not_on_display at 11:47 PM on February 12, 2023 [2 favorites]

half his time as her pet and half his time as her boyfriend... wished every het male sub with that particular kink.
posted by Thella at 12:29 AM on February 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

It's about a sassy talking dog named Alvin Flang who magically becomes a man each night, falls in love with a woman and spends half his time as her pet and half his time as her boyfriend.

I look forward to the manga but I think I’ll skip the Doujin this time, thanks.
posted by Ryvar at 12:31 AM on February 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

To be fair, a lot of boyfriends are dogs way more than half the time.

if a lot of boyfriends were dogs a lot more of the time, tell me the world would be a worse place and I will call you a liar
posted by elkevelvet at 7:52 AM on February 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

There's some kind of sexist jokes up in here. Can we please not?
posted by Ursula Hitler at 12:52 PM on February 13, 2023

So, just ... Fluke part 2, then?
posted by lkc at 3:16 PM on February 13, 2023

This movie is amazing. As is A Talking Cat?!.
posted by pelvicsorcery at 5:28 PM on February 13, 2023 [1 favorite]