Watchers is a 1988 science fiction horror film directed by Jon Hess and starring Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Barbara Williams, and Lala Sloatman.

A mutated monster known as the OXCOM (Outside Experimental Combat Mammal) escapes and chases a golden retriever from the same lab, through the surrounding woods.

Meanwhile, Travis finds the dog in the back of his car and a military/police force is sweeping the area for the escapees.

Travis and his mother rush to the hospital, but Agent Johnson and his partner will not allow them to see her.

Agent Johnson stops by Travis' house to ask questions and the dog hides.

A family friend who is fixing the washing machine mentions that a man stopped by earlier asking if they owned a dog.

Agent Johnson fires at them, but he is stopped by his partner who balks at murdering a woman and two kids.

Johnson then reveals that he is the corporation's third experiment, a genetically engineered assassin with no conscience, and kills his partner.

Johnson, unfazed by the stab wound, claims that they will die anyway before being shot to death by Mrs Cornell.

Travis, his mother, Tracey and the dog regroup and leave in the beat-up truck as the farmhouse burns down.

[citation needed] It was released on VHS and LaserDisc by International Video Entertainment in 1989.

[citation needed] Artisan Entertainment released the film as a double feature with Watchers 2 on DVD in 2003.

[4] At the time, Watchers was the most expensive U.S. production to take advantage of Canadian Tax Shelter laws.