Straw Dogs review

Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 Straw Dogs is everything that the trailer suggests. Some viewers unfamiliar with the original will find Straw Dogs (2011) to be a socially conscious horror thriller. The film tries to hide behind satire and metaphor in much the same way as Hobo with a Shotgun did earlier this year. But because this Dogs wants to play to a wider audience, the film wears its R-rating lightly and follows formula when it ought to be trying on something different. It ends up hackneyed, unnecessary, and clichéd, improved only by the A-list acting talent and...  read more

Kate Bosworth to Join James Marsden in Straw Dogs Remake

Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller, Straw Dogs, left audiences rattled and the media in a frenzy when it was first released in 1971. Starring Dustin Hoffman, the film told the dark saga of an American mathematics teacher and his English wife who encounter violence and malicious neighbors when they move to the English countryside. Now, director Rod Lurie has begun work on a remake, recasting the story in the U.S....  read more