Dog Soldiers

Vampires, zombies, serial killers… what about the werewolf? Well you are in luck, I am about to introduce you to the best werewolf movie I have ever seen, or that I remember at least. You see as many horror films as I do and it all becomes a bit blurry. Forget the crappy cover art and the “from the producers of…” line because everyone knows that a producer does squat except put enough money into a movie to get their name on it.

Something is afoot in Scotland, as shown by the mauled campers who have no point in being in the movie anyway so we move onto the part that does. We meet Private Cooper who I have a weird feeling I have seen in something else. Cooper is being hazed by the Special Forces and when he refuses to kill a dog, he is forced to run across campus in his skivvies, kidding, his Captain sends him back to the Army or something.

A few weeks later, Cooper and five other British Army men lead by Sergeant Wells played by Sean Pertwee, are dropped in the same area to perform a training mission. On their first night they come across a butchered cow and follow the trail of goop to find the camp that the Special Forces had set up, only it appears as though they got ripped a new one. They find a survivor in the same Captain that refused to let our friend Cooper, who still looks very familiar to me, join the Forces. Hindsight right? Well he babbles on about what jumped them and it doesn’t sound like they are very good at being Special Forces having gotten themselves all dead and everything.

Holy crap! Monsters! RUN! The living soldiers run for their lives, this way and that, one gets impaled on nature and Wells has his belly ripped open and his guts would fall out if he wasn’t holding them in. Yuck. When out of nowhere, a young woman who claims to be a zoologist appears and helps the survivors escape to her farm house. Building a base out of the house, the soldiers battle the onslaught of wolf creature throughout the night.

The effects are relatively very good for what the budget must have been, but the story, the action right amount of morbid humor, and the perfect amount of gore made for a monster movie that even my boyfriend remembered liking. It was a refreshing film after the countless Hollywood cookie cutter horrors that makes you appreciate how horror is interpreted outside our borders.