Review of Doghouse (2009) by Lee B — 26 Apr 2011
"Doghouse" wants desperately to be the next "Shaun of the Dead" but is too serious in spurts to pull it off. While there are scenes of payback 'zombie style' that you indulge in, a great deal is lost in the lack of interest in any of the male characters.
There is not enough character development initially and the intense arguments that set up the character introductions leave them as unrepentant jerks. As the film progresses you just don't feel a vested interest in these people and you just wish the film would make that commitment towards a discussion in the death of chauvinism it weakly alludes to.
Instead it saves it all for an anticlimactic speech at the end and 5 -7 minutes more of a film you wish was over a while ago. As far as zombies go, "Doghouse" is not your garden variety zombie film.
The zombies possess limited intelligence, brandish weapons, and mutate over the course of the film. It's well made and filmed gore, but as far as a story goes, this one completely lost me when the survivors attempt to blend in with their zombie antagonists and never recovered.
This review of Doghouse (2009) was written by Lee B on 26 Apr 2011.
Doghouse has generally received mixed reviews.
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