Straw Dogs
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate. From TMDB
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60 of 146 · most liked firstWatership Down, Aftersun, The Devil, Straw Dogs, 10 Rillington Place, Sorcerer, Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Naked, Bleak Moments … first wave on sale tomorrow! princecharlescinema.com/seasons-even... @amcinematheque.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #264 "Straw Dogs" (Sam Peckinpah/1971) Ignore the fact the wrap is still on this release. I have seen this movie many times and it's a fucking belter! Check it out.
positive · AI labelView post →Okay, so (1) Yes, STRAW DOGS is at least quasi-fascist, (2) the "FIRST" American film that is a fascist work of art?!?!?!?!
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #FilmSky 'Straw Dogs'. 1971 (Sam Peckinpah) The 1970s produced numerous works of film controversy - Sam Peckinpah's second serious look at violence would prove to cause even more outrage than The Wild Bunch. You can read my writing below: ⬇️ letterboxd.com/hunkykubrick...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally started the MAD MAX rewatch and love what a strange movie the first is. It's like this fun house mirror version of STRAW DOGS set in a dystopian future bookended by absolutely sicko vehicle chases.
neutral · AI labelView post →For @letterboxd.social, I had the privilege of speaking with one of our greatest filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, about my favorite film of the year, Cloud. We discussed him being influenced by Straw Dogs, his desire to return to his old mode of filmmaking, whether he’s seen Here, and more. boxd.it/2Eg
neutral · AI labelView post →A total joy to chat to @jasondashbailey.bsky.social + Mike Hull on the legendary A Very Good Year podcast about 1971 - my favourite year for film, hands down. Elaine May's A NEW LEAF, Alan Arkin's LITTLE MURDERS, Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS + more. Listen in here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →SHOWING TODAY 🎞️ - GET CARTER - BREAKING THE WAVES - KES - BLEAK WEEK MYSTERY MOVIE - BLEAK MOMENTS w/ Mike Leigh Q&A - STRAW DOGS - JENNIFER'S BODY - APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT princecharlescinema.com
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (26th May) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing Straw Dogs (1971) and Django (1966) as a double bill.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Lastfourwatched #Letterboxd #Filmsky #Letterboxdfriday #Moviesky MacGruber was a movie I might have loved 20 years ago. Straw Dogs is a fine is unnecessary remake The Woman in Black is beautiful but nothing new or unique. Fantastic Four 2005 rewatch was fun.
negative · AI labelView post →Italian film poster for Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS (1971) Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George
neutral · AI labelView post →one of my moots here recommended The Old Gun/le Vieux Fuseuil last week, but can't recall who, sorry! cracking film, Straw Dogs meets Die Hard, especially timely for its dealing with nazis. with the beautiful Romy Schneider and the fabulous Philippe Noiret, and on UK Prime
neutral · AI labelView post →Extraordinary to think I am watching a film made 112 years ago. And that at the halfway point between then and now, 56 years ago, I would have been watching DIRTY HARRY, GIÙ LA TESTA, DUEL, STRAW DOGS, McCABE & MRS MILLER, THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES, THE DEVILS, MACBETH & THE MUSIC LOVERS.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why is it when I decide to watch a movie every once in a while, I pick something upsetting? Tonight's movie is Straw Dogs (1971) and fuck, I'm so glad I got rid of my alcohol because I'm not even an hour into this movie and I had the rare urge to drink. Warm nonalcoholic cider it is! XD
negative · AI labelView post →December 29, 1971: Sam Peckinpah’s film Straw Dogs starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George is released in the USA.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good heavens. The following all were released in 1971 • STRAW DOGS • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE • THE DEVILS Now *that* is a grim little film festival.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stewart Lee on westerns and politics. Doesn't get better. I always find Pat Garrett a tough film to watch (those poor chickens) but I should probably do so again. I already have a couple of Peckinpah's lined up. I also want to rewatch 'Straw Dogs'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 100th birthday to director Sam Peckinpah. His bold use of sound has been very inspiring to me. Straw Dogs made brilliant use of sonic abstractions. The Wild Bunch changed the way gunshots sounded in movies. And The Getaway has one of the best audio intros of any movie ever. A sonic powerhouse.
neutral · AI labelView post →Basil Kirchin’s extremely rare soundtrack for The Shuttered Room (1967) has appeared on YouTube! A horror film that predates Straw Dogs, but has barely been given any credit for its eerie qualities. Still not on blu-ray. FINALLY I get to hear this soundtrack after decades of longing.
neutral · AI labelView post →My mood is good right now so I will watch a cheerful movie.......now watching Straw Dogs
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Straw Dogs (1971)
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie tie-in edition of Straw Dogs
neutral · AI labelView post →First watch: Le vieux fusil (1975, dir. Robert Enrico). Philippe Noiret & Romy Schneider star in this controversial but popular war drama-turned-exploitation movie. I'm glad I went in blind on this one because it is best described as Straw Dogs + Inglorious Basterds + And then there were None! 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (6th July) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) and Straw Dogs (1971) as a Sam Peckinpah double bill.
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay. I'm not crazy. They did have a shotgun racking sound effect for a double barrel. Lmao. #wrongturn a solid 3/5. Not a masterpiece, but it does what it needs to and the ending rips. It captures a bit of the energy the end of Straw Dogs and I love that shit in a movie. Cheers #frightclub
positive · AI labelView post →They made this movie twice. It's called Straw Dogs.
neutral · AI labelView post →This episode is a bit longer than normal and no wonder as this time around we are tackling Peckinpah's most controversial work "Straw Dogs". Luckily we brought in Peckinpah expert @liamhdempsey.bsky.social (Spocklight) to tackle this highly divsive film. open.spotify.com/episode/5y1q...
neutral · AI labelView post →"The end of a picture is always an end of a life." 🎬 #SamPeckinpah, American film director ("The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs"), was #BOTD 21 February 1925. #Film #Filmmaking
neutral · AI labelView post →Sounds like The Wicker Man! I think that’s why that film is so effective. You can draw a line from that to 28 Years Later, including Straw Dogs on the way. Communities that don’t include you and their deep-rooted weird ways
neutral · AI labelView post →I may not be the audience for this film. (Yes, Bear's the villain; DUH. I saw STRAW DOGS, thanks.) But I'm fuzzy on what love is in this film. I *was* that 20-odd sad sack crushing from afar and never once thought "Man, she's so hot. I wanna serve her her dead cat for lunch." It runs long. 2/?
negative · AI labelView post →Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film STRAW DOGS forces you to confront your own feelings about violence - is this film exploitation or examination? You decide! So many incredible performances in this movie. Please tell me your memories of this film! #strawdogs #vhs #movie youtube.com/shorts/3arh2...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rifleman (50's TV series) Straw Dogs (1971 film) Sam Peckinpah
neutral · AI labelView post →French film poster for Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS (1971) Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George
neutral · AI labelView post →Last day of being home sick, headed back to work tomorrow. I've watched a lot of movies last couple of days. Today, starting off with one I haven't watched in fifteen plus years, but watched a zillion times in the 90s and early 2000s. Probably my fav Dustin Hoffman film, this one or STRAW DOGS.
positive · AI labelView post →James Woods is an old man who is sexually interested in children. “James Woods sexually harassed my 17 year old on the set of the film Straw Dogs. Woods was playing her father"
neutral · AI labelView post →Good one Joanne, reminds me that PP resembles the antagonist in the movie Straw Dogs .
neutral · AI labelView post →THE VISITORS (1972) -dir Elia Kazan Nothing makes me giddy like discovering a film from my favorite era that has somehow escaped me all these years. An unknown, pre-shitty James Woods and an impossibly young Steve Railsback face off in a domestic, Vietnam-era companion to STRAW DOGS. Movies rule.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Quick, put something else on!” “How about this?” “Is it a kid’s film?” “Sounds like it, it’s called ‘Straw Dogs’” “OK that should do”
neutral · AI labelView post →Again, this is Straw Dogs (Not recommending this movie, but it is a movie about a dude defending his house from intruders with fatal traps. It has a lot of questionable shit in it besides that but it's well made)
neutral · AI labelView post →Alonso says it's a "Bugs Bunny movie." Stuff blowing up in Daffy Duck's face. 😂 He also said it was like if you crossed The Ref with Straw Dogs. They made War of the Roses comparisons (saying it's better than The Roses). Seems like they had some fun with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORmH...
neutral · AI labelView post →Why would I ever deign to eat Man Cereal or brew that hideous right-wing ground coffee, when I can just stand in the aura of this Italian movie poster for STRAW DOGS and absorb through my skin its Peckinpahrticles?
neutral · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: Hotel for Straw Dogs
neutral · AI labelView post →I love low budget horror/exploitation movies and I still hate STRAW DOGS boxd.it/b7rqXj
negative · AI labelView post →7 year old me was horrified. We hadn’t been yet desensitized by huge body counts. It’s one of the things I try to tell kids now— stuff like Straw Dogs and Wild Bunch were considered beyond the pale. Now every action film is a video game.
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching M.F.A. (2017). I've seen a few people on here mention this, and it sounds like a interesting revenge film. Pretty harrowing so far - think I Spit On Your Grave or Straw Dogs. Curious to see how they blend in the themes of art, expression, and emotion. #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs. That movie was rough. Incredibly disturbing and nihlistic. The more movies I watch from 1971, the more I think that era is similar to our own.
negative · AI labelView post →The cinematic poet of onscreen carnage. I go... Fave: Straw Dogs has an intensity and an unsettling vibe that's unshakable, but I can't call that a fave. The Wild Bunch, though? GAH. Ferociously badass, a film to soak up like bread in broth. Least fave: The Ballad of Cable Hogue was *alright.*
neutral · AI labelView post →ANGST might be the most unsettling film I’ve seen next to HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, IRREVERSIBLE, FUNNY GAMES, and STRAW DOGS. Holy shit. So unpleasant, yet compelling and well made.
neutral · AI labelView post →For Movie Week, Graham & Lauren will be dancing the Foxtrot to the theme from Straw Dogs
neutral · AI labelView post →213. Straw Dogs (1971 film): if there was a whiff of edge to The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs is a “misunderstood” 13 year old writing in his diary edgy. Lanthimos-levels of misanthropic worldview fabrication & contrivance. Bogus, but a few subtle notes about masculine rituals of violence are neat. 4/10
negative · AI labelView post →Many years ago my local paper carried a letter from an outraged dog lover who had discovered that Straw Dogs was not the film she was expecting
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the '70s: 70 - Colossus: The Forbin Project 71 - Straw Dogs 72 - Deliverance 73 - Westworld 74 - Phase IV 75 - Dog Day Afternoon 76 - Carrie 77 - Black Sunday 78 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers 79 - Mad Max
positive · AI labelView post →@willmckinley.bsky.social Music/movie birthday. Jerry Fielding 1922-1980. Composer was nominated for three Oscars including the films The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs (1971).
neutral · AI labelView post →Other things I bought that you couldn’t get in the UK in 1996: Straw Dogs A Clockwork Orange Driller Killer The Exorcist (I think) Jerky Boys: The Movie Hasbro Slave 1 Lots of extremely buff Star Wars figures And my buddy got a Sega Nomad. Truly a fine haul and a good time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add a word. Ruin a movie. 🖤🎥 Bendy Straw Dogs 🧃
neutral · AI labelView post →Rank and File After Dark. One of the most controversial and divisive films ever made. Its power has not softened over time. #195 Straw Dogs reconrank.com/movies/straw... #Horrorsky #Horror #Movies #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →For me the final straw was listening to him talk about STRAW DOGS on his Film Archive podcast. I just realized I didn’t want to spend any more time with his opinions on film.
neutral · AI labelView post →My first sneak-into-it R-rated movie was Straw Dogs. Holy hell.
neutral · AI labelView post →Leonard Cohen - New Skin for Old Ceremony (1974) Get the impression this is fairly overlooked in his discography, or at least was. On some days it’s my favourite ‘There Is A War’ was put to good use in the pretty much forgotten but decent Gary Oldman movie Backwoods (bit of a Straw Dogs rip off)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just today, I realized my life outlook permanently had been traumatized and altered by the movie ‘Straw Dogs’. This one, short video does the same! #rotinhellyoumutherfckers
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