Marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula.
Dog Soldiers (2002)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:23
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis:
A squad of British soldiers is sent out on maneuvers into the wilds of Scotland. They thought the worst they had to worry about was missing the biggest football match of the decade, but what should...
A squad of British soldiers is sent out on maneuvers into the wilds of Scotland. They thought the worst they had to worry about was missing the biggest football match of the decade, but what should have been a routine military exercise turns into a nightmare for Sergeant Harry Wells (Sean Pertwee) and Riflemen Lawrence Cooper (Kevin Mckidd), Joe Kirkley (Chris Robson), Terry Milburn (Leslie Simpson), Phil Witherspoon (Darren Morfitt) and Corporal Bruce Campbell (Thomas Lockyer).
ething's out there ... and it's hungry. Very hungry. And hairy ... very hairy.
Stumbling into the encampment of Captain Richard Ryan (Liam Cunningham), on a mysterious Top Secret mission for the Special Operations Division, the squad finds him mortally injured and his crack unit torn to shreds.
Stunned by the blood-soaked aftermath and unable to get any sense from Ryan, the shocked men are led by local girl Megan (Emma Bleasby) to a deserted farmhouse deep in the forest for refuge.
Inside, the table is set for dinner and something meaty is bubbling on the stove, but no one is home. Strange noises outside grow closer and closer -- a strangely hairy family is coming home and they're hungry.
With no radio contact, no live ammunition and only each other to rely on, the soldiers must rely on brute force and cunning if they are to fight the werewolves battering down the doors and smashing through the windows.
Who will survive the terrifying threat?
And what will be left of those that do? -- official site
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer
Director: Neil Marshall
Director: Neil Marshall
Screenwriter: Neil Marshall
Reviews for Dog Soldiers
...one of the better horror comedies to hit video store shelves in a while.
Stock up on silver bullets for director Neil Marshall's intense freight train of a film.
I'm convinced I could keep a family of five blind, crippled, Amish people alive in this situation better than these British soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking.
Mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor.
If you like blood, guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though... you will likely enjoy this monster.
essentially an exceptionally well-written, well-edited, well-directed, well-acted, bald rip-off of Aliens.
'Stock up on silver bullets for director Neil Marshall's intense freight train of a film.'
One of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since The Evil Dead.
Truth to tell, if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films, there's nothing here you haven't seen before.
Dog Soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it, energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it.
Just about the best straight-up, old-school horror film of the last 15 years.
Sam Raimi may be done with the Evil Dead series, but there are plenty of acolytes around to pick up the slack, among them first-time helmer Neil Marshall.
There is a welcome lack of pretension about the film, which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure.
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