ABOUT PLOT

"If little Red Riding Hood should show up with a bazooka and a bad attitude I expect you too chin the bitch!"

Possibly the best werewolf film ever made........

Private Cooper (Kevin McKidd) fails his special forces induction for refusing to shoot the dog they have used to track him. Four weeks later in the Scottish Highlands , on an exercise with his regular platoon led by Sgt Wells (Sean Pertwee), he and his squad come across the devastated remains of a special forces camp commanded by the brutal Capt. Ryan (Liam Cunningham) who had led the team who failed Cooper's special forces induction.

It soon becomes clear that Cooper and his freinds were to be the sacrificial goats for Ryan and his men to capture something very big, very vicious and not vegetarian!

HORROR DEBUT

Marshall envisioned his debut feature, Dog Soldiers, as "a soldiers versus werewolves movie," and made it simply because he wanted to see a supernatural horror battleground hybrid, a genre blend no one else had produced or was producing.

MOVIE REFERENCES

In Dog Soldiers there are numerous references to Neil Marshall’s favourite horror and fantasy films. The most obvious being from the MATRIX ‘There is no spoon!’ Then there is the one from ALIENS where Kevin McKidd says, ‘Short, controlled bursts!’.The film is quite open about its references and viewers will notice references to everything from THE EVIL DEAD, PREDATOR, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, ZABRISKIE POINT and Walter Hill’s SOUTHERN COMFORT, which also detailed what happens when a group of soldiers on training manoeuvres that turns into an actual life or death fight for survival.

NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED

WARNING! GRAPHIC DISEMBOWLING, GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AGAINST SQUADDIES AND WEREWOLVES. WITH SALTY SQUADDIE LANGUAGE!

REVIEWS

"There is a welcome lack of pretension about the film, which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure." Mark Adams, Hollywood Reporter

"Dog Soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it, energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it." Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post Intelligencer

"On a low budget but with great imagination, crisp storytelling, sharp editing, clean photography and a rousing soundtrack!" Mark Thomas

"One of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since The Evil Dead."Mark Rahner, Seattle Times