Peckinpah's semi-fascist tale works both ways: as a dream of male territorial revenge, and as female rape fantasy taken to a shockingly unexpected end.
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This review of Straw Dogs (1971) was written by Thomas Delapa and published by Boulder Weekly on 19 Nov 2004.
Straw Dogs has generally received positive reviews.
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