Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Clearly Neil Marshall likes ensembles and he also likes monsters and I'm not sure he's ever really been able to better his version of the werewolf. He then goes on through a history of important werewolf films and how they bleed into and effect other films that aren’t even of that sub genre. This is a proper old school horror that not only takes inspiration from other werewolf films, but borrows heavily from the setup and symbolism of slasher flicks as well. The tortured soul, cursed to be a beast that they cannot control during the full moon, such as in An American Werewolf in London, and the carnivorous kind, wanting to use their gift to wreak havoc, such as those in The Howling.

It features an image with much more nuance, less bleached look and one with a more depth, crispness and texture. It's super rough around the edges and you can tell that Marshall and DoP Sam McCurdy are doing everything in their power to hide any of the imperfections, but the flaws are part and parcel of the DNA of what makes great horror films great. He showed them just enough to be satisfying, but not so much that it risks the illusion being shattered. We probably hadn't even seen a trailer or knew anything about the film except what was shown on the poster.But the gruesomeness really helps with the movie, because it makes it feel realistic; when you have soldiers fighting giant savage werewolves that kill indiscriminately, you would expect to have intestines flying everywhere. Yes, I've watched " Dog Soldiers" a number of times and own 3 copies of it ( DVD, Scream Blu, and Koch (German) MediaBook Blu). They’re candid about identifying a key story element that they insisted that Marshall add, over his objections, and they also note the link with Southern Comfort. I hadn’t revisited the film in a while, and it caught me by surprise how many great moments there are here. While both the 4K UHD and 1080 discs in this package sport some new supplements, they don't share all of the same content, as below.

It’s a fine example of how a talented director can take a clever concept and overcome the limitations of a minuscule budget, and it proves just how versatile that the werewolf genre really can be. Marshall cast professional dancers in the role of the werewolves instead of taking the traditional stuntman route because he wanted them to appear graceful on screen. So, to summarise, once the blackness of the night fully envelopes the house, carnage and attacks commence as the (now seen) werewolves try to feed, and the soldiers try to survive.

The entire film is as unrelenting as the ferocious werewolves themselves, never really taking any prolonged moments to breathe and relax.

Marshall assembled a stellar cast for Dog Soldiers, headlined by Kevin McKidd, Sean Pertwee, Liam Cunningham, and Emma Cleasby. The Second Sight version will just keep you a little bit busier thanks to the deleted scenes and the booklet, and it will also look far prettier on your shelf. As they flee, they’re fortuitously picked up by Emma Cleasby’s zoologist Megan, and end up taking shelter in an abandoned farmhouse but as the dark of the night takes hold, they’re trapped there by the predators outside.Thankfully, Second Sight films was able to track down the original elements to produce this new digital restoration. Black level is deep, giving decent frame depth, and hiding good shadow detail; check out the night shoots, or in the cellar or the wardrobe! The 16 mm camera negative was scanned at 4K resolution by Silver Salt Restoration in the UK, with an interpositive being used for several effects shots. The Director, Neil Marshall, confirmed that the Scream copy was authored from a Cinema Print because the OCN had been lost.