Tag Archives: Straw Dogs

Win Sam Peckinpah’s notorious 1970s thriller Straw Dogs on Blu-ray

Posted on 3 November 2011 by peter

Coinciding with its 40th anniversary and with the forthcoming remake (check out Jason Best’ review here), director Sam Peckinpah’s notorious thriller Straw Dogs has been carefully restored and remastered for release on two-disc DVD and for the first time ever … Continue reading →

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Film review | Straw Dogs – Watch it get bloody when the bookworm turns

Posted on 3 November 2011 by Jason Best

Sam Peckinpah‘s notorious 1971 thriller Straw Dogs saw Dustin Hoffman’s weedy intellectual find his inner savage when pushed to defend hearth and home against murderous yokels. James Marsden is the bespectacled wimp in writer-director Rod Lurie’s brutally efficient Hollywood remake, … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Aussie revenge thriller The Horseman

Posted on 28 August 2009 by peter

This violent thriller, in the tradition of revenge classics like Straw Dogs and Death Wish, is not for the faint-hearted. After the body of his daughter Jessica is found dumped in a Brisbane industrial area following a heroin overdose, Christian … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – Straw Dogs

Posted on 11 October 2008 by Beth Williams

On Channel 4 tonight at 11.05pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This controversial film from 1971 was famously banned by the BBFC for two decades because of its graphic portrayal of violence and … Continue reading →

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