Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2774 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-02-17
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
An enjoyable low-concept monster movie, Dog Soldiers is basically Night of the Living Dead with werewolves. A platoon on a training exercise in Scotland, already fed up because they are missing a vital England-Germany match, come across the wounded survivor of a special ops team (Liam Cunningham) that has been attacked by monsters. There's a confused conspiracy angle, with a scheme to sacrifice the squaddies in order to capture a werewolf for military uses, but it's mostly a lost patrol picture with the soldiers besieged in a mysteriously abandoned house in the woods, complete with "pork" stew on the boil.

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
Director, Cast and Crew Commentary
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

Synopsis
Something evil lurks in the wilds of Scotland, and this unfortunate troop of soldiers are about to stumble upon it. A routine exercise takes an unexpected turn when the troop discovers ravaged corpses out in the woods. With dusk quickly turning to night, and an ominous full moon lighting up the sky, the men (including Sean Pertwee and Kevin McKidd) decide to hide out in an abandoned farmhouse. With their supplies and morale both in short supply, the soldiers become trapped in the house by a pack of hungry werewolves who seem hellbent on enjoying the men for dinner. Can anything stop these relentless lycanthropes

Customer Reviews

Entertaining
Enough shocks, and laughs in equal measure to keep the interest going with this film. Good British cast, and (intentionally) cheesy script and a touch if irony make this an entertaning movie. Not one of the best horror films, but slightly better than average in my opinion.

Come and have a go.....
If I was going to be stuck in the woods surrounded by hairy creatures determined to turn me into breakfast I'd want to be there with Spoon. Anybody who has the nerve to look the canine in the eye and tell it, effectively, that he hopes his demise makes the eater sick gets my vote. And who would have thought that a tube of Superglue could be so surprisingly effective when your stomach's hanging out? Not that that's the most pressing of poor Mr Pertwee's worries. This is great fun. I bought it purely for the great tag line on the cover and wasn't disappointed. Don't forget to pack your silver....

***** RUBBISH & COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME *****
Ok where do I start off with this movie, well I read all the reviews about this movie before renting it out and hoped it with be another decent british movie just like The Descent was I wrong or what! After watching the first 20 minutes of the movie I had to switch it off it is one dull boring movie with amateur performances, my 2 little nieces could do a better job of scaring me. As I am true horror fan I gave this movie a 1 star, if you havn't already watched it Rent THE HILLS HAVE EYES, That gets you into a true horror movie.