Christa Lang, Glen Garner, Helen Siff
A young actress befriends a stray dog and brings it into her home, eventually realizing that it has been programmed to viciously attack, without motive, black-skinned individuals.
DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008
Stats: 148 reviews
The least you can say for it is that it presents its ideas in a more interesting fashion than Crash. Who could resist the allure of this film's premise? A dog that attacks black people? It's just bizarre enough to get the mind racing. Why confine an idea like racism to humans, wh...( read more)
Proficient filmmaker Sam Fuller achieves an startling Hitchcockian thriller about the poisonous sentiment of racism.
A canine is the seemingly peaceful being that encapsulates all the hate, prejudice and animosity among humans.
A heartbreaking parable told with impeccable and har...( read more)
I'd like to thank Criterion again for bringing an underseen gem to the masses via DVD! This racially-charged thriller features another classic Morricone soundtrack!
If a movie is so effective that it's going to make me, an animal lover, afraid of a cute dog, it's not something to sneeze at.
Essentially this film is horror. It definitely uses aspects of a monster movie to make you feel what it wants you to feel. This monster though was brough...( read more)
Fuller's controversial film about a white German Shepard trained to instinctively hate black people is an interesting watch, as some of the acting is a bit hammy, but Kristy McNichol is fine as the dog's concerned new owner, and Paul Winfield appears very devoted as the trainer w...( read more)
A movie about racism, that is disturbing, yet though provoking. Not a movie fr everyone, but I did enjoy it. An older movie from...1982.
Give me a break. I know this is supposed to be a social commentary film by Fuller, but most of it is laughable. And I am not talking about the racial stuff being funny, but I mean stuff like a fucking dog jumping through a window to catch a rapist and lines from Paul Winfield tha...( read more)
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