Okay it's been a few weeks and I decided it was time for another inane synopsis/summary
Today I watched A Boy and His Dog.
We open on a barren desert landscape in the year 2024. It is supposed to by 16 years after WW IV, which was supposed to have destroyed (most of) the world with nuclear bombs. The main characters are Vic and Blood. Blood is Vic's dog who happens to be able to communicate with Vic telepathically. They live in a world where there is very little food and very few women and tribes of scavengers roam the desert in search of underground caches of canned goods. These scavengers also have dogs of their own and everyone uses their dogs to pick up the scents of females so they can get laid. Vic and Blood go to an outdoor pornographic theater at night and Blood picks up on the scent of a woman. After tracking her down they go down into what used to be a hospital to find her. For some reason (that's never explained) the desert they live in exists above the remains of a city. While down there they are ambushed by some other scavengers who apparently also used their dogs to pick up the woman's scent. Vic starts to scream to scare off the scavengers because there are apparently radioactive zombies called Screamers who can kill you just by touching you. After the other scavengers run away Vic, Blood and the woman, who's name we find out is Quilla June, go inside an old boiler to hide from real Screamers. We never once see a Screamer or hear anything more about them.
After Vic makes sweet sweet love with Quilla June several times, she tries to convince him to come to live in a civilization that exists entirely underground (where she comes from). Blood tries to convince him not to but he goes anyway.
Once underground we find an entire civilization with many healthy inhabitants all wearing new clothes, eating fresh fruits and vegetables, playing in marching bands, and living a very wholesome, yet creepy, life of 50s idealism. There are just two problems (at first glance- with more to come), all the people are wearing clown makeup (the reason for which is never explained) AND even though their civilization is entirely underground and the only light that exists is spotty and artificial (basically casting the same type of light as street lights at night) their world has full sized trees, grassy lawns, and plenty of fresh produce...
As it turns out their underground lifestyle has left their men infertile so Quilla June was sent up to trick Vic into coming down so they could force him to get their women pregnant. The idea of being able to make sweet sweet copulation with so many willing women thrills Vic, and he accepts. Next we see poor Vic bound and gagged, tied to an operating table, with a device that seems to be pumping the boy butter right out of him. Poor Poor Vic. In the same room one of the leaders of the village, called "the committee", is performing weddings and giving each blushing bride a vile of Vic's freshly churned man plasma. Quilla June was promised she would be put on the committee for getting Vic, and when this promise is not fulfilled she decides to kidnap Vic. Dressed as a bride herself she rushes in and knocks out the committee member with a crowbar hidden in her bouquet and then rushes out of the building with Vic assisted by two of her friends. Instead of trying to escape, the trio decide that with Vic's virile manhood on their side that they can be the new rulers of the society. Wrong. The committee holds an emergency meeting and sentence them all to death. They send the town strong man to strangle the hooligans and he succeeds on Quilla June's two friends. When Vic tries to use a gun on the strong man he realizes that he's actually a robot. Quilla June and Vic run to escape back above but when they get out they find that Blood has been in a scuffle and is badly injured. Quilla June tries to plead with Vic that Blood is too beat up to go on and they should run away without him. VIc insists that Blood needs food and he'll be okay, but where to get it?
So- of course- Vic kills, cooks, and eats Quilla June. Blood and Vic walk away happy and healthy into the sunrise.
The end.
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