Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Pack (1977)

Warner Bros.
Directed by Robert Clouse
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Another animals-run-amok movie from the 70s, although this one is better than most. A pack of wild dogs, former pets abandoned by tourists, terrorize residents of a remote island in the Pacific northwest. Joe Don Baker is the de facto leader of the people, his outdoor experience and calm, no-sense attitude taking over when others resort to panic. After the predictable bloody dog attacks, the survivors hole up in a house while the pack circles outside. I did not see any actual harm done to dogs, and there is a Humane Association approval in the credits, so it should be safe for animal lovers to watch, and in some sense gratifying to see the dogs get back at the cruel people who abandoned them. The Warner Archive release is a vast improvement over the old, dark, practically unwatchable VHS tape (the film was also released with the title "The Long Dark Night").

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