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Dog Soldiers (2002)

Werewolf Wednesday #7: Dog Soldiers (2002)! Just to get it out of the way: it’s pretty fucked up that a movie about werewolf soldiers wasn’t named “War-Wolves.” Stuff I liked: bipedal werewolves!, stars the actor who played Davos/The Onion Knight on GOT 😍, there’s a major Goldilocks and the Three Bears vibe when you realize they are straight up in the werewolves’ cozy family cottage, a werewolf beheading someone and throwing the head at a car, playing Debussy’s Clair de Lune on the piano was kind of cheeky, the weird scene of a werewolf using the sword it’s been impaled on to facefuck a soldier? Stuff I didn’t like: my biggest pet peeves with werewolf films are slap-attack/kung-fu werewolves and being coy about actually showing the transformation scenes, and this movie hits on both. That being said, the writing is solid, the effects hold up and the plot is unique, but! This movie was really not particularly charming or goofy which is what makes this project fun. Plus, importan

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