In 1969, he wrote a short story titled “A Boy and His Dog,” which tells the tale of a 15-year-old wasteland scavenger named Vic and his telepathic dog Blood. The story was also adapted into a 1975 film, which Fallout designer Jesse Heinig told The Escapist in 2009 “inspired Fallout on many levels” (including Dogmeat’s name, which was taken from a nickname Vic gives Blood in the film).
It also influenced “Love and Monsters” (2020)
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/lq-jones-on-a-boy-and-his-dog-the-rt-interview/
And Mad Max.
Oh, and the dog is the same dog that was “Tiger” on “The Brady Bunch”
I tried, I really did. It just made me uncomfortably bored. (Which from someone who’s rewatched every MST3K I could get my hands on a dozen or so times each, is saying something. :)
I love bad movies as well. This one was too far over the line for me, I just wasn’t interested in its specific brand of “meh”.
I rented this just to make my friends watch it, and they loved the ending.
But it definitely isn’t a good movie.