Doghouse

2009
6| 1h29m| en
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Six men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it...

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Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
hellholehorror Yeah it looked good. Nice palette, well-choreographed, all good. Solid sound mix with subtlety. I would have loved to work on this. This is nowhere near as good as Evil Aliens (2005). I'm a bit bored of this zombie vibe. This felt like a sell-out movie unlike the director's previous movies. Still it was entertaining and had lots of crazy moments and dislikeable (if predictable) characters. Full of zombie- women, blood, gore and craziness but somehow didn't quite work.
Lugodoc It carefully follows all the rules for this class of horror movie and it's scary, gory and it made me laugh out loud a lot, hence the score. Some people have criticised the ending because the men "haven't learned anything", but they have. After a brief moment of control they realise that they don't even care about that any more, they just want to get away from the crazy women. And most lads' nights end with someone unable to walk being pushed by the rest in a supermarket trolly.I think its nearly as good as Shaun Of The Dead, but whereas that film was ultimately feel-good this one is harsher, misogynistic and leaves a bitter after-taste, which makes it more interesting. Lads will love it. Feminists will hate it. Do not watch it with your other half.P.S. Danny Dyer's best film. Make of that what you will.
bowmanblue Sensitive. Deep. Emotional. These are all words that will NOT be used to describe 'Doghouse.' It is certainly an 'acquired taste.' And when I say acquired taste I mean basically a film that will primarily be enjoyed by blokes (probably after a few beers). Let's just say that the 'fairer sex' doesn't come off too well.A group of lads (with vaguely distinctive personality traits) decide to go to an out-of-the-way little town in country England for a guys' weekend away. Why? Does it matter? Anyway, they quickly discover that all the women there have become bloodthirsty zombies. Cue a fight for their lives (and in many cases body parts).Yeah. It's a B-movie, but then it never claims to be anything else. It has Danny Dyer and Noel Clarke in it. Yes, they're about the biggest names in it. Again, it doesn't need particularly big names in it. It's basically an excuse to get a load of wise-cracking guys being constantly pursued by females zombies (and the inevitable sexist quips which come with it).Basically, you're either going to appreciate it for what it is (and cheeky little gorefest which puts men against women) or find it totally stupid and low-brow. Both arguments have their merits. I can see why some people would hate it. It's hardly 'high brow.' You definitely need to be in the mood for it and know what you're getting from the hour and a half of guys screaming and being dismembered by female monsters. Shakespeare it is not. Fun, it is. It's got enough nice touches to be added to your collection (that statement is true possibly more if you're a guy!). It may not be that original, but it has good gore, some nice one-liners and a cast that are just about lovable enough to root for over the insane harpies who hound them.
Mike H I don't even know where to start with this.We're introduced to our cast of characters in scenarios where it is firmly established that men (even gay men, provided they're not effeminate) are good, simple creatures, with good, simple drives, and women (and gay men who are effeminate) are nasty, hormonal, screeching control-freaks who just want to spoil the lives of good, simple men.And... That's pretty much it for the entire film. Seriously. That's the entire film, in a nutshell.Of course, it tours through pretty much every gender cliché you've ever been offended or disappointed by, and it also contains Danny Dyer. And let's face it, casting directors who cast Danny Dyer need to be shot. Because he's crap. And this film is no exception to that rule: He can out-Cockney you, he can out-bloke you, but he really can't out-act you, he is Danny "Dire" Dyer.Sadly, he's not even the worst actor in the film. The only reason that I scored this a 2 out of 10 instead of a 1 is that I have a bit of a thing about Nicola Jane Reading, who played the busty zombie-witch.