The box for “Doghouse” has been staring me in the face for a while now on Netflix. I chose to include it into the 31 Days marathon simply to get it off my screen. However after watching it, I was pleasantly surprised that it was a competent horror/comedy flick.
Doghouse is pretty much what you would have gotten had Shaun of the Dead been directed by Guy Richie instead of Edgar Wright. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, either. Doghouse starts by introducing the predominantly male cast one by one. We see what their love lives are like, albeit a thin slice. Setting the rest of the movie up nicely. The story is that five guys are getting together for a weekend of drinking and general debauchery in the hopes of cheering up one of their friends that is going through a rough divorce. They plan to head to a small town where one of their grandmothers lives and drink their cares away. All goes totally as planned until they actually get to town.
Finding that the town is completely devoid not only of “things to do” but people, they begin to look around to find out where ever one is. What they find, is probably not what they were hoping for. All the men in town are dead, and ended up that way by the hands of all the women in town. There apparently is some sort of “virus” that only affects women, and the town was a test case. As the men soon find out, the virus not only makes them flesh eating monsters, but gives them more strength, and cunning than already possessed in the normal female body. Now they have to escape town with their lives and most of their limbs intact.
Doghouse is a gory, action filled comedy, and I really enjoyed it. Never really stooping to low, it shows that British director Jake West, knows how to shed blood as well as tell a joke. There were never any “roll your eyes” moments in the movie, and some of the scenes were actually laugh out loud funny. I can see why this movie has gotten the random but high praise it’s received. If you are stuck for a movie to watch this October, you can do a LOT worse than Doghouse.
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