Dog Soldiers...

Quick movie review. Dog Soldiers (2002). Saw this film last night - British werewolf flick. Basic plot: Full moon. Small troop of solidiers doing some field training in the remote mountains of Scotland encounter a pack of werewolves. The troop stumbles upon a suspicious enviromentalist chick who happens to be in their neck of the woods and who takes them to a suspiciously empty farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. With limited ammo (which does nothing to the wolf pack onslaught), the heroes basically need to make it until dawn... Depite the goofiness of the werewolves (monstrously tall and rather rigid rubber costume), the film has enough flair and quirky humour/suspense blended in to make it a fun watch. It is almost identical to the action of Night of the Living Dead (heroes inside, monsters outside, until the monsters get inside in more ways than one) - but there's a whole Agatha Christie-esque blending of the plot, characters and mystery to keep this one from sinking. Just like in The Mousetrap, the little bits of humor never kill the suspense. And there are some very funny moments - like when one of the soldiers who finds himself facing a werewolf with nothing but a stick in his hands, just throws the stick and shouts "fetch". Another soldier just decides to start boxing with a wolf when his ammo runs out. And then there's the moment when a wounded soldier with his guts torn out is fighting with a normal dog who is trying to steal off with a piece of his intestine... And the Goldilocks undercurrent is just too good not to mention. Good stuff. There's a bunch of twists/turns to the plot, almost all predictable, but its still one I can highly recommend. And it would make the perfect WEGS Horror scenario, too...