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Film Description
Based on Gordon M. Williams's novel 'The Siege 'f Trencher's Farm', and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs is an unflinching study of primal, barbaric brutality that is generally regarded as one of the strongest statements about violence ever put on screen. It was banned in the UK from 1984 to 2002.
David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is a quiet American mathematician who comes to live in a Cornish farmhouse with his wife Amy (Susan George). The locals don't take kindly to the young couple's presence, and begin a bullying campaign against them; when this escalates to rape and a direct assault upon the farmhouse, the ordinarily timid David begins to fight back.
Boasting outstanding performances from the two leads, a brilliant supporting cast and Jerry Fielding's superb Oscar-nominated score, Straw Dogs, in the thirty-one years since its original release, has lost none of its intense, visceral power to thrill and shock in equal measure.
Oh my goodness me. My first encounter with this was when a college friend lent me a pirate copy with a black and white photocopy of the video cover. Many people have t... more >
Oh my goodness me. My first encounter with this was when a college friend lent me a pirate copy with a black and white photocopy of the video cover. Many people have their stories of when the first saw Clockwork Orange when Kubrick was still alive (including me) but watching 'Straw Dogs' had a stronger affect on my being than a film about bowler hatted ultraviolent rapists. Out of all the Peckinpah films I have watched ('Wild Bunch', 'Pat Garrett' and 'Alfredo Garcia')this is the best one.
If truth be known there is only one visceral film and that is 'Straw Dogs'.
