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directed by Nick Robertson
Australia 2015
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Man's best friend turns against him when a horde of bloodthirsty wild dogs descends upon a family's farmhouse. In a remote stretch of the Australian Outback, a sheep rancher, his veterinarian wife, and their two teenage children live in bucolic isolation—until a horrifying night when a pack of fang-bearing, four-legged rabid beasts besiege their home. With no one around to help them, the family must band together to survive—or else become canine kibble. Generating a steadily mounting sense of dread, The Pack cleverly toys with genre conventions before it goes in for the kill. ***
On a remote farm in Southern Australia, hardened farmer Adam
Wilson, discovers the last of his livestock have been mauled to death by a pack
of wild dogs. His dreams of keeping the family business going are shattered, but
nothing can prepare him for what will happen next. |
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Theatrical Release: August 5th, 2015
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DVD Review: Arrow - Region 2 - PAL
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| Runtime | 1:24:13 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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Firstly, this is not to be confused with the 2010 French horror La Meute. The Australian horror The Pack has some good atmosphere although suffers from being a shade direction-less. The first half thriller-build is encouraging and I liked the plot simplicity. I appreciated the cinematography although the budget limitations show in the lack of visual detail of the pooch attacks (not unlike 50's creature-features.) Logic dictates an alternate decision process by the protagonist family, but the aura will carry it for some. Arrow's Region 2 DVD is single-layered, anamorphic and does a decent job for SD. Darker scenes show some lack of detail and there is the expected softness when we've become used to HD. There isn't a lot of depth but the visuals are, predictably, super clean. I had no issues with the image presentation. I appreciated the lossy Dolby audio and score flourishes by Tom Schutzinger. It supported the film's tension quite well. There are no subtitles offered on the PAL DVD. Only a shortish, standard, making of as a supplement with some of the filmmakers and cast giving, innocuous, input. I guess few films can exist on rich atmosphere for the entire running time. And while The Pack wasn't particuarly remarkable I was engaged enough to watch it to completion. Aside from the intriguing wild-dog central theme a secondary element, perhaps of family cohesiveness, might have befitted the proceedings. It's not something I would strongly recommend but it did have some appealing points, enough that I might give it a re-spin eventually. - Gary Tooze |
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