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The hardman sergeant (Sean Pertwee) is disembowelled early but gruesomely patched up with superglue, letting the sensitive Scot (Kevin McKidd) play hero. A pack of effectively glimpsed Howling-style bipedal werewolves make repeated attacks on the house, whittling the cast down with each invasion. The soldier characterisations are solid cliché, albeit of a British variety rarely seen in horror movies (a highlight of the use of Brit slang is the Geordie shouting "Come on if you think you're hard enough"). The monsters are okay, but writer-director Neil Marshall's strongest suit is his third, as editor, covering for the old-fashioned monster suit effects and making the suspense and action mechanics work.
On the DVD: Dog Soldiers is an excellent DVD package complete with two commentary tracks, a British one with Marshall and the cast and an American one with a couple of producers. Both are interesting and rarely overlap, and there's an amusing contradiction between the Brits who rush over script changes they didn't want to make and the Yanks who imposed a sub-plot they feel saved the picture. Also, a bunch of trailers that amusingly spoof a recent army recruitment ad, deleted scenes and outtakes with optional Marshall commentary, a standard making-of featurette, storyboards and Marshall's short film, Combat. --Kim Newman
Special Features
Producer's Commentary
Deleted scenes
"Making of" Dog Soldiers
Gag Reel
B Roll footage
Storyboards
Photo Gallery
Theatrical trailers
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of Hearing
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9)
Sound: 5.1
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
night of the werewolves?,
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This review is from: Dog Soldiers [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
ok then so here we have night of the living dead but with werewolves instead of zombies. is that a bad thing? hell no!!!! because this is a decidedly british horror film!!!! ie no budget but great actors and a fantastic script that never takes itself too seriously.
the direction is cracking and makes use of the claustrophobic elements of being trapped in a house overnight. the basic premise of the plot is that a bunch of squadies are used as bait for some werewolves and make a run for it!!! the performances are spot on all the way especially kevin mckidd and the moral side of the story and sean pertwee and the sgt. plus where else will you ever see a squadie have a fist fight with a werewolf and a werewolf getting hit in the face with a frying pan? you see!!! utter mentalism!!!! thank you soo very much neil marshall!!!! bring on his next film soon.....please!!!
34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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There's a bad moon rising.............,
By Rakesh Pancholi (Great Britain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dog Soldiers [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
I first went to see this movie one Friday afternoon - I was bored and wanted some entertainment - I wasn't disappointed !The tagline for the movie is '6 Men, Full moon, no chance !'. The plot is quite simple enough. A group of British soldiers are on a training mission in the Sottish Highlands. They happen across the remains of an SAS unit, whose captain is the only survivor. Whilst on the run from a pack of werewolves, they seek refuge in a deserted farmhouse. With no silver bullets or means of communication with the outside world, what follows is a game of survival - with the werewolves trying to get in and the soldiers trying to stay alive until daybreak. What makes this film stand out from the bog-standard werewolf movie in the British 'tongue-in-cheek' humour and dialogue. The best one-liners come from Sergeant Wells (hilariously played by Sean Pertwee) who, in one scene, manages to keep his sense of humour intact despite all his vain attempts to keep his guts from falling out of his superglued stomach, following a werewolf attack ! Fans of 'An American Werewolf in London' will love this film as it shares the same mix of horror and black comedy with some really good 'jump out of your seat' scenes. To sum it up, Dog Soldiers is a gory, scary and very funny Britflick, and proves you don't have to have a big budget to produce a great film
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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bleak post-'Nam classic....,
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews (No. 1 Hall OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Dog Soldiers [DVD] (DVD)
Made in 1978, 'Dog Soldiers' is an adaptation of Robert Stone's classic post-'Nam novel of the same name - though it is a film sometimes known under another title, 'Who'll Stop the Rain?'.Nick Nolte, escaping the potential typecasting of 'Rich Man, Poor Man' & generic-silliness like 'The Deep', made a consious move towards grittier material and bleaker roles. 'Dog Soldiers' would put Nolte on the course that lead to challenging material like 'Under Fire',Scorsese's episode of 'New York Stories','Afterglow' & 'Mother Night.' There is excellent support here in the form of Tuesday Weld (Once Upon a Time in America, Looking for Mr.Goodbar), Michael Moriarty & Anthony Zerbe. The film itself is a faithful adaptation of Stone's novel, which captures the bleak post-'Nam/Nixon zeitgeist - centring on a Vietnam Vet (Nolte) attempting to smuggle heroin back into the U.S. and descending into a situation that reminds me of Neil Young's bleak drug-murder song 'Tired Eyes' (from 'Tonight's the Night'). As such it's one of the downer films of the late 70s and anthithesis to the shiny-happy likes of such blockbusters as 'Stars Wars' & 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' One to file next to 'Blue Collar','Out of the Blue', 'Straight Time','Rolling Thunder' & 'New York, New York.' No happy endings... 'Dog Soldiers' is a welcome issue on DVD, a film that seems overlooked- as is the work of Robert Stone come to think of it! Finally, it should be noted that as one of the initial works of U.S. cinema that addressed the stigma of Vietnam, alongside 'Hearts & Minds'(1974),'Rolling Thunder'(1977),'The Deer Hunter' (1979) & 'Coming Home' (1978). A bleak cult classic then-
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