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Doghouse [DVD] [2009]
 
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Doghouse [DVD] [2009]

Danny Dyer , Stephen Graham , Jake West    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
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  • Actors: Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham, Noel Clarke, Terry Stone, Christina Cole
  • Directors: Jake West
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Hindi, English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 12 Oct 2009
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002EL4MIY
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,794 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Deleted Scenes, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Danny Dyer and Noel Clarke star in Jake West's outrageous UK horror-comedy film. When a bunch of lads descend upon a remote village to help a mate get over his divorce, little do they realise that the local womenfolk have been infected by a virus, turning them into rabid, man-hating cannibals! Doghouse, follows six men with mid-life anxiety as they set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it... ...Doghouse

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4.0 out of 5 stars Barmy 'killer women' action horror - fun and funny, 28 Aug 2010
This film is heavily influenced by it's two main elements - Jake West's bonkers manic/pervy/comic/violent style, and the attitude you expect from a good Danny Dyer flick - an 'all blokes together, birds and violence' blokey approach. I went in expecting a 'Severance' level of genius and as a result I was a bit disappointed, but after adjusting to the difference in tone I realised this is a film that you enjoy on its own terms. When Danny's 'Neil' and friends decide to escape from the city to help a friend get over his divorce, they plan to head for a village where the women vastly outnumber the men in order to party their woes away. Unfortunately the village has fallen foul of a mysterious plague, and the women are all - literally - maneaters. Naturally the lads end up trapped, and fighting for their lives and to discover what went on in the ravaged village.
It's a brilliantly fun idea, and instead of playing it for real horror, West plays it for campness and laughs. 'Sexy' zombie/vamp women drool blood and chase the panicked guys around, and West even has the comedy balls to have flocks of rabid women chasing a remote control car in one of the scripts funniest scenes. That's not to say he forgets the gore. West enjoys going over the top, and there are many scenes with claret and entrails flying left right and centre, usually in a 'so disgusting it's funny' manner. Moments when the men start to feel superior again are usually slapped down with well timed comic irony or a brilliantly judged gag, and very little of the humour is anything short of madcap and thoroughly enjoyable.
I didn't notice any great benefit from seeing this in Blu-Ray, but I imagine that it's at least noticeably better than on DVD as I remember the images being impressive and the sound having great impact despite the film's 'low to mid-budget' status.
Sometimes the plague-women makeup was a little too deliberately crazy-looking to the degree that it looked a bit fake, but that kind of thing seems to be due to West's deliberately excessive style, and it didn't harm the movie. Some of the set pieces and gore are also very well handled and painfully convincing.
This is very much a 'blokes on a lark' caper, and while the beginning reeks of misogynism, this seems to be a deliberate excess to contrast with the women getting their revenge and roundly kicking the blokes' backsides for the majority of the movie. It's very silly, very funny, and very gory. Just don't go in expecting a 'serious' horror movie, or you'll be very disappointed.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Funny, must see if you like comedy horror., 23 Oct 2011
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STEVEN "Part time gamer" (Glasgow, United Kingdom.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doghouse [DVD] [2009] (DVD)
Watched many times. Hope They bring out Doghouse 2 with same cast and more of the same, great film highly recommended.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A horrifically fun lampooning of the battle of the sexes, 10 Jun 2010
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Mr. R. Mcelwaine "Bobislost" (Clydebank, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doghouse [DVD] [2009] (DVD)
I'll state right from the word go what is glaringly obvious in that "Doghouse", the latest film from British horror movie director Jake West won't win any awards for being original or innovative. More to the point he may not curry favour with the feminist brigade as it might definitely be safe to say that when it is all said and done that It undoubtedly would be accused as being misogynistic. After all a movie where six male friends organise a lads night out in a remote English village to help a fellow pal and now divorcée get over their marriage ending, only to find them selves savagely set upon by the female population which have some genetically mutated in to man eating cannibals. You know It's hardly going to be a film that promotes better harmony and understanding between the two sexes. Coupled with the fact that one of the main protagonists played by ever rough and ready Danny Dyer as a cocky, bear swilling sexist misogynist who fancies himself as something of a ladies man. It doesn't take a genius to realise that West may be treading on thin ice were it not for the fact for all It's arguably contentious material it's a pretty infectious, tongue in cheek horror comedy that makes no bones about where It's intention lie.

Rather than demonise woman it serves to lampoon the ultimately futile, inanity of the war of the sexes. Neither the men nor the woman depicted in the movie are necessarily depicted in an entirely favourable light and while the majority of the woman seen have unwittingly been transformed in to flesh eating monstrosities they in fairness can't be faulted for their imposed blood lust. Ultimately and without giving too much away the blame for the virus that has genetically altered them is revealed to be partially if not entirely placed on feminine shoulders. While the six friends who organised the getaway trip's spouses/girlfriends with the exception of one who is gay(who's partner may as well be a woman) in their brief appearances are seen to be nothing more than moaning, winging harpes. Misogynistic you might think but can also can be indicative of their poor judgement and possible idiocy when they thought they had chosen their ideal respective mates.

But for all of this and the misfortune that befalls our heroes (or all be it anti-heroes if depending on how you want to look at it) at the hands or should I say claws of the genetically augmented females. And with male protagonists who also consist of a stereotypically obsessive comic book geek as well as Dyers Misogynist they're the hedonistic labels that are commonly placed on men rather than women. Although it's to screenwriter Dan Schaffer's credit (as well as the actors) that for all of the faults of the majority of the characters you find yourself genuinely caring about what happens to them.

Out of the cast only three are relatively well known with Stephen Graham, of course Danny Dyer and Noel Clarke (most renowned for playing Mickey Smith in BBC's "Doctor Who") while the rest of the male pack along with the rest of the ensemble are ultimately rather obscure names. Dyer's Neil is hardly a large step for Dyer as an actor who seems to have carved out a niche for playing cockney wide boys and reminiscent of his previous role as Steve in Brit Horror flick "Severance" finally never the less effortlessly manages to tickle your funny bone so much so that you can't help but falling in love with the sexist imbecile. Graham a wonderful Liverpudlian actor most recognised perhaps for his roles in "Snatch" and the BBC's gritty domestic drama "The Street" plays the recently divorced Vince and is arguably the outright leader of the group who brings the necessary down to earth level headed charm who inwardly convinces the audience that he's something of a ticking time bomb of emotions. While Noel Clarke while decent as Mikey seems to be playing a character not too far from his (similarly named) Mickey Smith personae in a certain British science fiction show. The rest of the cast offer solid support with little known Terry Stone cropping up as the obligatory Sgt. Gavin Wright who's ultimately a hackneyed walking talking plot device utilised to push forward the story's unoriginal but fun plot. With former "Emmerdale" star and pin up Adele Silva appearing very briefly as well as former "Classic Doctor Who" actress Mary Tamm as a local politician.

Comparisons of course are going to be lay-ed at the film's door with the more polished "Shaun of the Dead" and invites immediate comparisons although unlike the misfire that was 2008's flat offering "The Cottage" which served to send up the slasher movie genre. "Doghouse" get's by on it's charm along with it's kinetic pace and knowing well placed intelligent digs at both sexes. Flawed though it undoubtedly is and perhaps maybe even rough around the edges and not quite as sublime and clever as it would like to think it is, Schaffer's script is still witty and knowing enough so that the film is never the less enjoyable and aided by the overall solidness and enthusiastic performances. Wallowing in the whole comedic clichéd nonsense of it all. Although the film's final act does appear to begin to arguably get too heavy handed and begins to grate while the ultimate denouement is a tad weird, perhaps because Schaffer was left stuck with how to wrap it up and I'm guessing due to budgetary restrictions that West was forced to deal with it still makes for a slightly more polished and entertaining film than I might have envisioned. What other film could have latex bond-aged mutant females as well as the disgustingly over weight of flesh eaters which could be accused of degrading woman and manage to get away with it?

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