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Post by someoldguy on Nov 12, 2019 9:50:33 GMT -5
Wolves, were and otherwise, are dealt with extensively on this site. I think every dog should have his day and so I am starting this thread on Bad Dogs in horror movies. Contributions welcome. I will start with a very bad dog named Max. Man’s Best Friend 1993 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9R5UcrrvIAnimal rights activist frees large dog from lab, unaware that he is a genetic experiment with abilities beyond the usual canine ones. The dog is played by a huge Tibetan Mastiff, which is scary and cute at the same time and unfamiliar enough to not know which to expect. Nice one, with Ally Sheedy breaking out of type.
Notable moments:
Max chases the mugger who stole the women’s purse and retrieves it. She is unaware that he killed the mugger and hid the body. Smart dog.
Max has extensible claws due to leopard genes and chases that cat up the tree (much to its surprise) and swallows it whole. Yes, you get to see this. In closeup.
Let’s face it. The mailman should have carried treats not pepper spray.
Max’s hyper senses detect the poison in the meat the boyfriend tries to kill the dog with. The look on Max’s face! If you ever see a very large dog look at you that way, RUN!
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 13, 2019 14:48:02 GMT -5
Zowie from Pet Sematary 2 (1992) Pet Sematary 2 has a lot of ill-advised resurrections in that Indian burial ground. But the one of interest for this thread is Zowie, the kid’s beloved pet who is shot by the stepfather for interrupting his sex session. (Out, out damned Spot!) A zombie Malamute mix is a lot worse than an undead cat, don’t you think? (I had a Malamute once long ago. Raised right they are just big teddy bears. But they are huge and powerful. Zombified? Wowie Zowie!) |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 15, 2019 20:50:43 GMT -5
The Breed is full of bad dogs. My opinionated comments below. Available free on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJWlMgIwZHoAnd pretty much worth it unless you have an hour and a half demanding to be filled with something, anything. A whole bunch of genetically engineered German Shepherd Dogs that have escaped a lab versus young college age guys and gals on a vacation-worthy but otherwise deserted island. The dogs are very smart and carry some kind of deadly disease. Despite that, the dogs never appear to be very scary, just dogs running, barking etc. as people run away from them. Hot young girls in scanty clothing is the main selling point, acting definitely optional. The attempts at filling out the characters to be more than cardboard just results in corrugated cardboard. There are some exciting parts but never really fully exploited. Not quite the 'so bad its good' category but not that far off either. If Wes Craven had been the director and not an 'Executive Producer' (which can mean as little as 'let them use his name') something better might have come out of this. There are some credibility destroying improbabilities. Example: One young lady (a very hot looking Michelle Rodriguez) was accidentally shot through the leg with an arrow not long before (oops!) yet manages to perform some amazing acrobatics. As might be expected, the movie has a 'it aint over' ending, all of what little creativity was around apparently having already been exhausted. The final 'surprise' scare jump seems to imply that everyone dies. Is that the best they could do?  Final take: The Breed has gone to the dogs. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 17, 2019 8:50:12 GMT -5
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell TV Movie from 1978 An evil dog god impregnates a female dog ala Rosemary’s Baby. Nice ritual scene with chanting worshippers, mystic symbols etc. But they tastefully close the barn doors on the act itself, this being TV after all. One of the puppies ends up with a ‘normal’ 1970s suburban family, where it then proceeds to take over their souls and turn them to evil, while killing potential enemies. This could easily have been a TV movie disaster but is kept well afloat by director Curtis Harrington with a good background in horror films, by seasoned actors Richard Crenna and Yvette Mimieux along with the ‘Witch Mountain kids’ Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann who also do a credible job. The dog, a German Shepherd imaginatively named Lucky, is played first by an adorable baby puppy then by a fully-grown GSD. It does its mind control and other magical stuff by sitting and staring, sometimes with glowing eyes. Not very physically scary except near the end when its true demonic form is revealed. Negligible gore and a little FX of 1970s TV grade. But not a bad story although a very bad dog. Free on Tubi tubitv.com/movies/462676/devil_dog_the_hound_of_hell |
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Post by ArcLight on Nov 17, 2019 14:05:01 GMT -5
I kinda remember going to see Dogs of Hell (tho it was Rottweiler 3D when I saw it) back when it came out in 1983. Made by Earl Owensby, who also did a werewolf movie called Wolfman back in 1979, who was a fellow North Carolinian and made a bunch of low-budget stuff in the late 70s/early 80s. I remember a TV interview where there was a statement something along the lines of his studio technically being the most profitable one of the time. Can't say I remember a ton about the movie but there was a guy with some Rottweilers in the lobby and they were sweethearts. Trailer: youtu.be/c4QhFQsoSRgAnd apparently the whole movie: youtu.be/XH7NWD9Ls3k |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 17, 2019 20:08:31 GMT -5
I watched it.  Dogs of Hell aka Rottweiler is IMO a really bad movie. To begin with, the original title is misleading. There is no supernatural involved. Rotties are trained as weapons by the military, trained to kill people on sight. And a whole bunch of them escape. Evil military scientist wants them back. Haven’t I seen this movie before? The acting sucks, the dialog sucks, the script sucks. Maybe it was partly because the YouTube video was captured from VHS but everything is so dark it is often hard to see what is happening. Sound quality was poor, probably because it came from VHS and Surprise! the subtitles were in Spanish. Not the fault of the movie of course. The dogs mostly just growl and run. In fact it is well into the movie before we actually see some dog action. Rarely do we see dogs and people onscreen at the same time and then only briefly. Mostly it is a dog runs or jumps and we then see 'gory' dead bodies. And whenever a dog gets shot, we see its head explode. Same explosion over and over. But never an exploded head dead dog. Bad dogs? To be sure. But bad movie too. BTW Rottweilers can be trained to be nice ‘sweetheart’ puppies for life. But their natural genetic predilection is to attack and that must be suppressed when they are very young. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 18, 2019 10:51:21 GMT -5
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 22, 2019 17:57:05 GMT -5
Dracula’s Dog aka Zoltan: Hound of Dracula OK this is a really bad movie. But if you forgive the bad acting and dialog and the zillion holes in the plot, it can be a lot of fun to watch. There are even some parts that are exciting. Some minor spoilers below. I am not going to try to mark them. Most of them happen in the first few minutes anyway. Zoltan was Dracula’s vampire dog in the long ago. (How did that happen? Man bites dog?) He gets resurrected when some fool pulls the stake out of his heart. (Yes, he was staked and put in a coffin in a tomb and buried with the rest of the Dracula family.) Zoltan and the day walker guardian travel to America (Why? Don’t ask. Major plot holes). The guardian had also been staked and buried in the tomb but good boy Zoltan pulled the stake out. It gets wackier. But I want to talk about the dog himself, not the movie. Zoltan is played by a dark colored or black Doberman Pinscher always photographed in the dark with some light effect that makes him seem to shine like moonlight. Eyes are glowing of course and the ears stick out sideways looking a little like bat wings. And naturally he has two really big vampire fangs. 2.bp.blogspot.com/-_8S4JhH4B_8/Um3VFapvhHI/AAAAAAAAbJ0/4j0TWO8SnZs/s1600/zoltan4.JPGHuman vampires sometimes make other humans into vampires. Zoltan makes other dogs into vampires. spaceratsfromouterspace.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/z3.pngA predictable but cute ‘it aint over’ ending. |
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 9, 2020 9:31:44 GMT -5
The most famous of bad dogs is none other than Cujo. I do not think I need to reiterate what the story is about. There are plenty of YouTube videos showing all the gruesome kills etc. It is not really Cujo's fault, he is sick. For me, the scene that comes the closest to portraying what is happening to Cujo, and comes closest to conveying the spirit of Stephen King's book, is this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-AkfFZwfIAs the book puts it, "the last sane act of his life". |
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 9, 2020 21:31:40 GMT -5
The Pack (2015) Bad dog s this time. A pack of wild dogs wreak havoc with sheep and people in Australia. Some deaths off screen at the beginning and some bloody deaths along the way one of which I approve of  The main story is about a family in an isolated farmhouse attacked by the pack. Pretty good frights and action. All of the family survive including the family dog for a change. I do not know the breed of dog used. There is never a clear enough shot in the light to be sure. Shepherd size and all black. Tail like a shepherd as well but a different face. But they are nicely threatening. |
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 11, 2020 14:15:58 GMT -5
Rottweiler (2004) Not only is the dog bad, the movie is bad as well. The Fugitive meets Cujo meets Terminator, with none of the good points of any of them. Endless, mostly boring chase with the protagonist often naked for no discernible reason. Ludicrous side story. But a fair amount of gore. The only credible acting is by villain Paul Naschy who manages not to turn into a werewolf in the entire movie.  Are we really supposed to believe that the guy spends almost the whole movie trying to get to his sister and then suddenly remembers she is dead? I love this reaction shot by the chicken when the cyborg Rottie breaks out of the cellar where it was trapped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSfvcbCeHw |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 11, 2020 9:38:37 GMT -5
Night of the Wild (2015) SyFy Asylum Need I say more? Meteor shower makes dogs into crazy killers. The dog attack scenes, even though involving no gore except fake blood, are the best part of this movie. And there are a LOT of them. Acting and dialog are stupid. Characters are all stupid and always make the wrong decisions. (Have you seen the Geico commercial about that?) This was on SyFy this morning. Netflix used to have it but no more. Prime wanted me to pay for it! For a movie with a 3.1 IMDb rating? And 37 anonymous 10/10 ratings to even get that high? C'est à rire |
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