Doghouse (2009)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Jake West

Writer:

Dan Schaffer (writer)

Release Date:

12 June 2009 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

The battle of the sexes just got bloody..........

Plot:

A group of men head to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce; when they get there, though, they discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals. |

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Cast

Danny Dyer	...	Neil
Stephen Graham	...	Vince
Noel Clarke	...	Mikey
Terry Stone	...	Sergeant Gavin Wright
Christina Cole	...	Candy
Lee Ingleby	...	Matt
Keith-Lee Castle	...	Patrick
Emil Marwa	...	Graham
Neil Maskell	...	Banksy
Adele Silva	...	Bex
Toby Richards	...	Mechanic
Emily Booth	...	The Snipper
Alison Carroll	...	The Teen
Billy Murray	...	Colonel
Tree Carr	...	Julie

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | Ireland:15A

Filming Locations:

West Sussex, England, UK

Company:

Carnaby International

Quotes:

Neil: Alright, calm down... You sound like a dolphin.

Bird flu is certainly getting out of control!...

Vince (Stephen Graham) is going through the final stages of his divorce and to help him through this period his friends Mikey (Noel Clarke) and Neil (Danny Dyer) decide to take him and a few of the other boys to a remote village outside the humdrum of their London lives to get, in Dyer's own words; 's**tfaced'. However, when they turn up to the incredibly eerie village of Moodley to find flesh-eating, man-hating, cannibalistic women who want to do nothing more than rip out their internal organs and eat them for breakfast, the boys realise they have bitten more than they can chew and must fight their way through a barrage of blood-thirsty women in the most misogynistic way imaginable.

The premise of the film completely reflects the manner in which Jake West approaches this project, with a gleeful nod towards plenty of harmless sexist humour and cheap gory death sequences that are all nice, light-hearted and fun. Neil, Vince and Mikey are all your typical working-class likely lads out to simply flirt with the opposite sex and drink as much as their body-weight, with Danny Dyer in particular needing to place little effort in recreating his Cockney 'laddish' persona (yet again) on the big-screen. While Dave Schaffer's script contains many easy-going humorous gags to keep your attention ticking over while the next axe, gnome or sword heads to try and end the boy's misogynistic ways and eliminate the male chromosome all in one.

'Doghouse' is nowhere near the heights of Pegg/Frost's rom-zom-com-supremo 'Shaun of the Dead', but it isn't the worst film you will see this year. At a short running time of 85 minutes, you'll be cheaply entertained with boys being boys and women being...err, evil, vicious, un-relentless and, well women (just kidding!). This a film you'd probably enjoy seeing more after you've been kicked out the local Pub at closing time and are heading home with your Chicken Jalfrezi in one hand and the DVD in the other.