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Summary: A wonderful little gem.
Review: Okay... An American Werewolf in Paris was made for 22 Million... this was made for 3.8 Million. Watch the two in a given night and see which is better. I guarantee you that 99 out of 100 people will pick Dog Soldiers. Why? Because it incorporates all those little things that Hollywood seems to have forgotten about. i.e. telling a good story, creating believable and likable characters, and finally actually putting something in the scene for the actors to work with as opposed to that CGI garbage. The werewolves in this movie are imaginitive and terrifying. They're more than just big wolves. What we have hear are a pack of nasty, snarling bi-peds with a sweet tooth for viscera. God-damn, I can't say enough about this movie. Bah! Just go out and buy the damn thing!!
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Summary: Four & A Half Stars Really, Good "Sleeper" Flick...
Review: No mega-buck effects, no overpaid TV sit-com stars, no fast food chain commercials and decoder rings, but one heck of a decent action/thriller. Set in northern Wales and predominantly in Scotland, this werewolf film works. A little predictable, but very much worth the effort. Keeps one's attention focused on the screen for the duration - what more can you ask for. Watch this.
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Summary: Gritty, tense... a great werewolf movie!
Review: Dog Soldiers is a tense and atmospheric werewolf film that distinguishes itself with a strong cast and a lean but convincing story, based around a group of soldiers on a training mission in Scotland. They encounter the remains of and one survivor from a Special Forces team, and the fun begins...The film is not a big-budget, big-name affair. The acting is solid, the portrayal of the soldiers' unit convincing, with the customary swearing and belly-aching about missing the footie on TV. The tension ramps up, almost 'Deliverence' style, as the unit comes under attack and daylight sinks away. An encounter with a zoologist sees them holed up in a remote farmhouse, trying to survive the night through as the werewolves grow bolder. Without a large budget for digital effects the werewolves are less convincing close-up than some of the recent CGI efforts in this direction (for example, 'American Werewolf in Paris'); but although you get to see the creatures pretty clearly in the latter third of the film, you get the best sensation of the beasts in the darkness during the initial confrontation in the woods, when they are only briefly glimpsed - very scary, and, like 'Alien', all the more so for being mostly unseen. All in all, an excellent film and worth adding to any lycanthrope's collection :) - five stars for the gritty portrayal of a military team under attack and slowly disintegrating, minus one for the werewolf effects themselves, which would have benefitted handsomely from just a bit of extra cash and some CGI. Still, unreservedly recommended.
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Summary: Doggone!
Review: A clever slice of horror, DOG SOLDIERS is an adrenaline kick, fueled in large part by the incredible claustrophic feel of being trapped in an old farm house surrounded by relentless predators while salvation ticks away in the hands of a slow-moving clock! Certainly not the greatest horror movie committed to celluloid, DOG still has plenty of bark. With the notable exception of a relatively improbable plot twist in the film's last third, this flick presents a tightly woven story about soldiers fighting for their lives against a pack of werewolves (some beasts look more like oversized action figures than they do carnivores, but the pace of film makes good use of some flashy creatures). Bold, bloody, and brash, DOG is one wild nightmare come alive.
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Summary: EERIE VERY EERIE
Review: Werewolf movies are my favorite kind of horror flick.
I have seen every one of them and this is the most eereie yet.
Bad moon is tied with it but this movie still is amazing. The werewolfs aren't the best but they are the scariest. They look pretty darn real too. I would give this movie a A. I love the action in this movie and how it isn't afraid to show some blood. Wow about that to I mean you really have never seen so much blood in a werewolf movie. When you finish watching this you will be dying to see Dog Soldiers 2 Fresh Meat I promise that.
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Summary: Bark at the Moon.
Review: Dog Soldiers. You know when a horror flick has a character named Bruce Campbell, it has to be good. The plot is simple: British soldiers training in the Scottish Highlands find themselves stumbling into a confrontation with particularly unstoppable foes: huge, ugly, nasty werewolves. Dog Soldiers is a gloriously straight-up horror film that will do fans of Evil Dead and Night of the Living Dead proud. Sure, it ain't original, but at least it steals from the best. [Director] Neil Marshall masterfully handles a relentlessly staged series of chase scenes that explode with gore and terror. And what he lacks in budget, he more than makes up for it with smart, tight direction and hammy dialogue. Most of the faces in this film are unfamiliar, but Kevin McKidd from Transpotting comes along for the fun. There is nothing pretentious here, Dog Soldiers never tries to be more than it is. Thank the gods. Unfortunatley, horror is a genre hard pressed for respect; but thanks to cool little movies like Dog Soldiers, it doesn't always have to be on the bottom of the food chain.
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Summary: At Last, Another Good Werewolf Movie - Neil Got It Right!
Review: I recently saw this movie and now I'm driven to recommend it because of the simple fact that there aren't many good werewolf movies out there.
The creatures do look realistic and the cast is just great. You'll find yourself laughing throughout this film as some of dialogue is quite witty. The directing was well done and the atmosphere did felt creepy in this movie. My favorite scene was during an attack on the cornered solders and each of them quickly picks up a gun to defend themselves, unluckily or wisely the sergeant quickly reached for something which turns out to be a piece of stick, when he realizes what he has in his hand he shouted at the monster "fetch". Don't get the wrong impression, this is not a comedy, there are some really gory scenes and lots of good looking blood too, really thick with grime etc.. So fans of this stuff will certainly enjoy this movie. Oh, and for the fans I recently found information that the sequel is actually being filmed and may get US theatrical release. Title: Dog Solders: Fresh Meat Get this movie, its worth it. Here are some other werewolf movies I'd recommend as well: An American Werewolf in London, Bad Moon, Ginger Snaps, Howling, Wolfen, Project Metal Beast, An American Werewolf in Paris (Don't expect this to be as good as the London one, but its still entertaining and funny)
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Summary: One of the Best Ones
Review: I think its one of the best movies of this type in a long time. You just have to get use to the dialog in the movie some jokes people won't get. If you really like to jump and get scared in at a movie then this is the one to get. I wasn't disapointed at this movie and neither will you.
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Summary: hmmmmmm
Review: well, here we have a very cool title with a tight picture of werewolves on the cover. Okay lets go to the movie section of our review.
British trainees are participateing in a training mission for what else the army. Well a large bloody animal falls from the trees and they start a little suspicious. So, here they are running to a camp with 'suspicious' looking gagets and gore and a guy.
Well to break this movie down it is remenisent of Night of the Living Dead because they are held up in a house, BUT DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU. This is still a good story with some solid actors. But the diolouge is a bit cheesy some of it anyway. Plot-9.75
Sound-8
Speical fx- 7.75
overall-8.5
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Summary: Bark At The Moon!
Review: Imagine a cross between "Night Of The Living Dead", "The Howling", "Dawn Of The Dead", "Southern Comfort", and "Assault On Precinct 13", and you'll be fairly close to describing this movie. I am a huge fan of werewolf movies! This is my personal #1 of all time. Soldiers playing war games suddenly find themselves at the bottom of the food chain. It seems that werewolves are about, and they're very tough customers! Sean Pertwee and Kevin McKidd are downright believable (as are the entire cast) as macho fighting men who become prey for flesh eating beasties. The soldiers make their last stand in an old farm house. It's military might and skill vs. supernatural horror! Who will win? Who will even survive the night?? What terrible secret lies beneath it all? Destined to be a classic...
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