A "blind buy" I attained from the horror section of one of those fast- disappearing little video stores that makes their real money renting out adult videos from a small room behind a curtain...the only type of place you might chance to find a copy of CLAWS. To my dismay, I found that this is actually a tiresome coming-of-age drama/outback adventure about a boy left by his folks to solely oversee their rural farmhouse for a few days, and concurrently being gently ambushed by a single wildcat.
Certainly not recommended as a horror film(because it isn't), CLAWS works no better within its ascribed action/thriller classification. If you should happen to stumble upon this in the bottom shelf of some dusty mom-and- pop video store(and I doubt you will), shake-off whatever curiosity you may have about it.
3/10
