• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • News
  • Trailers
  • Short Films
  • About DDOH
  • Horror Poems and Essays

Horror Movies Blog - Daily Horror Movie Reviews

Everyday - Any Genre - From Anywhere

  • Reviews
    • Asian Movies
    • European Movies
    • Hollywood Movies
  • Horror Movies Lists
  • Top Horror Movies of 2013
  • New Horror Movies on DVD
  • Submit a Review

Werewolves

Dog Soldiers (2002) Review

November 2, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

dog soldiers reviewSynopsis: A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.

Quick Review: Ever since I watched The Descent, I’ve always wanted to catch up on Dog Soldiers, Neil Marshall’s first effort. Now that I’ve seen it I’m kicking myself for not having watched it earlier.

MILD SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Dog Soldiers is one of the best werewolf movie of all time, period. Maybe only second to “An american Werewolf in London”.

Right from the start there is a sense of urgency and hopelessness that grips you until the very end. Director Neil Marshall succeeds to keep our attention on a tight budget with only 2 main location throughout the movie. It starts as a military movie, with a great cast of characters by the way, and turns into “Night of the Living Werewolf” with our heroes locked into a house trying to protect themselves from their assaillants.

I loved everything about Dog Soldiers: the dialog sounds real (some local slang might be difficult to catch if you’re not used to it) and is, at times, hilarious, each actor does a good job at making us empathize with them, the editing is great and the script, while quite straight forward, is tight enough with no time wasted om overstretched scenes.

When watching Dog Soldiers, I understood better why The Descent was such a blast of a movie. Neil Marshall is, in my book, one of the best action-horror director working right now and he proved it again with Doomsday and the episodes he directed for Game of Thrones. Now I need to catch up with his last movie, Centurion.

My Rating: 7.5/10

Director: Neil Marshall

Origin: UK

Click Here to Watch Dog Soldiers Online Now!

Filed Under: British Horror Movies Tagged With: Action, Cabin in the Woods, Gory, Supernatural, Survival, Werewolves

Ginger Snaps Review

June 18, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

Ginger_Snaps reviewSynopsis: (from IMDB) Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf

My Quick Review: Ginger Snaps was actually a good surprise. I love the fact that the main characters are young girls when, usually, werewolf movies are all about guys (and the girls are the victims). The movie is a coming-of-age story, an introduction to womanhood and the body transformation of a young teenage girl, werewolf-style!

What makes the story believable is the chemistry between the two main characters and the strong bond they have. While Ginger slowly changes (physically and mentally) her sister has to face her own struggles while helping her to fight the hunger.

One other big difference with other werewolf movies is that the transformation is progressive and reach full werewolf state  the night of the full moon rather than happening over a few minutes. Ginger starts to have more body hair, her hunger grows as well as her sexual appetite and her body transforms progressively.

I’d definitively recommend this movie as an interesting alternative to traditional “macho” werewolf movies. The characters are a tad more complex and Ginger Snaps rely on them to build tension and make us sympathize with them.

My Rating: 6/10

Director: John Fawcett

Year: 2000

Origin: Canada

Click Here to Own and Watch Ginger Snaps Now!

Filed Under: Horror Movie Reviews Tagged With: Gory, High School, Supernatural, Werewolves

Primary Sidebar

Search for a Movie

What Are You Looking For?

  • Hollywood Horror Movies
  • Indie Horror Movies
  • Asian Horror Movies
  • Indonesian Horror Movies
  • Japanese Horror Movies
  • Korean Horror Movies
  • Thai Horror Movies
  • British Horror Movies
  • Spanish Horror Movies
  • Found Footage Movies
HorrorFind.com Says: This Site Is Horrific!
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2023 Daily Dose of Horror · All Rights Reserved