Scream Factory Releasing Dog Soldiers

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Watched this last night via the old First Look Blu-ray release and it really does look like shit. It's a fun movie, holds up well, good action and gore and suspense, some neat characters.

Now I want to upgrade to the Shout disc, which I never got around to doing, but I know if I do that it'll sit on a shelf until I decide to watch it again in another 10 years or so.

Curse my OCD. Sigh.

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Watched this last night via the old First Look Blu-ray release and it really does look like shit. It's a fun movie, holds up well, good action and gore and suspense, some neat characters.

Now I want to upgrade to the Shout disc, which I never got around to doing, but I know if I do that it'll sit on a shelf until I decide to watch it again in another 10 years or so.

Curse my OCD. Sigh.

Skip that and go for the German Koch UHD. It comes from the original 16mm. They haven't done any clean up or corrected the black levels, but it looks a hell of a lot better.

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Skip that and go for the German Koch UHD. It comes from the original 16mm. They haven't done any clean up or corrected the black levels, but it looks a hell of a lot better.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

[Alison Jane Girl Boss Jane Find all posts View Profile Close Alison Jane]

The first and last time I saw it was over fifteen years ago. Didn't like it much. Appreciated it more this time around. Maybe because I like action movies more now than I did then.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

The cast commentary is fun, especially when Liam Cunningham starts lusting after Donna Air.

[Lorne Marshall Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Lorne Marshall]

Curse my OCD. Sigh.

Dude, that's why I didn't upgrade to Blu-ray. I have it so bad, by now I'd probably be upgrading the Blu-ray movies - even ones that I view as relatively marginal - to 4K Ultra HD! And then eventually to 8K, etc.

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No real details yet but Second Sight just announced they've got this in this works.

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From the Second Sight FB page:

"**DOG SOLDIERS update** For several weeks we've been in discussion about the possibility of access to the negative to scan and create a new 4K restoration. We're very excited to say this will be going ahead and we plan to release on 4K UHD later in the year. The restoration will be a long process but we will update with progress as soon as we can. We think the wait will be worth it!"

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I have the Scream, which is fine for a different look. But if this turns out well, i'll definitely buy this one again. My memory is so bad, i watched the Blu a year or two ago for the first time since it was new, and i had totally forgotten the big twist.

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I think this movie's overrated.

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For me, it really takes off once they're holed up in the house. Love that sort of thing.

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From Second Sight's FB page.

"With the negative scanned and restoration underway we've been held up as needed to scan an interpositive for a few seconds of FX shots. This has taken a few months of logistical issues to gain permission to access but is now in our hands and restoration completion will be end of Jan with a view to releasing 4K and Blu-ray by end of March. Thanks for patience everyone!

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I revisited 'Dog Soldiers' last month for the first time since seeing it on VHS(!) shortly after it came out, and thought it held up really well.

It wears its influences (Predator, Aliens, NOTLD etc) on its sleeve, and some aspects of the scripting are, um... rather ambiguous, to put it nicely, but the action is exhilarating, the gory stuff is horrible (in a good way) and there's a lot more solid acting and affecting character stuff than I remembered; even when it falls back on cliché, the cliché stuff rings true, if you know what I mean.

Unexpectedly, my wife went absolutely nuts for the movie, declaring it her favourite werewolf film ever, which I take as a pretty heavy seal of approval, given that I more-or-less expected her to hate it in view of the grim tone and relentless concentration on male/lad culture.

Speaking of which, we watched the film via a cheeky download which I think must have been taken from the US blu-ray, and whoever put the subtitles track together clearly had a nightmare trying to decipher the British slang which comprises most of the dialogue; there's lots of "(indecipherable)", "khazi" becomes "closet", "you what?" is "yours?", and at one point a squaddie tells the werewolves to "come and have a go if you think you're hot enough". Presumably the Second Sight edition will sort all that out to avoid immediate derision from UK-based customers...

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I revisited 'Dog Soldiers' last month for the first time since seeing it on VHS(!) shortly after it came out, and thought it held up really well.

It wears its influences (Predator, Aliens, NOTLD etc) on its sleeve, and some aspects of the scripting are, um... rather ambiguous, to put it nicely, but the action is exhilarating, the gory stuff is horrible (in a good way) and there's a lot more solid acting and affecting character stuff than I remembered; even when it falls back on cliché, the cliché stuff rings true, if you know what I mean.

Unexpectedly, my wife went absolutely nuts for the movie, declaring it her favourite werewolf film ever, which I take as a pretty heavy seal of approval, given that I more-or-less expected her to hate it in view of the grim tone and relentless concentration on male/lad culture.

Speaking of which, we watched the film via a cheeky download which I think must have been taken from the US blu-ray, and whoever put the subtitles track together clearly had a nightmare trying to decipher the British slang which comprises most of the dialogue; there's lots of "(indecipherable)", "khazi" becomes "closet", "you what?" is "yours?", and at one point a squaddie tells the werewolves to "come and have a go if you think you're hot enough". Presumably the Second Sight edition will sort all that out to avoid immediate derision from UK-based customers...

That's hilarious! I have the near-legendarily rare Canadian DVD from the initial release in 2001, and the subtitles on that are perfect. Scream/Shout just can't resist fucking things up, it seems.