Second Sight’s 4K Ultra HD release of Dog Soldiers is a two-disc set that includes a Region B-locked Blu-ray with a 1080p copy of the film.

Since you can pick up Second Sight “The Strangers” which just was released about a week ago from DiobolikDVD, I’m assuming you should be able to pick up this from them also. From a technical stance 'Dog Soldiers' may not necessarily live up to some of Marshall's later works but for pure fun, action packed, balls to the walls horror, this little low-budget werewolf flick is really difficult to beat. WONKA — The Magical Adventure of a Young Chocolate Maker Comes Home on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on February 27th! The results are a dramatic improvement, to say the least, though there are still some limitations due to the source. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, SFilmed in 2001 and released in 2002, Dog Soldiers is the film that put director Neil Marshall ( Centurion, The Descent) on the map for movie fans. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can read in more detail about the painstakingly intricate process of restoring the original negative to 4K in the 2022 Arrow FrightFest Guide as approved by Director Neil Marshall and DoP Sam McCurdy. I hadn’t revisited the film in a while, and it caught me by surprise how many great moments there are here.

Much of what makes 'Dog Soldiers' such an enjoyable watch is the chemistry between the group of lads. Liam Cunningham is such a good actor that I wanted to smash my TV in every time his face appeared on the screen. While the new 2K scan did offer some improvements, the grain was extremely heavy, and the contrast range was severely blown out.Bass is reasonable, there are a few LF effects, and the sub is used to fill out thumps, bumps and gunshots, and there is a wonderful deep resonance when the squaddies first encounter the house – it’s rich, powerful and unnerving; deep enough to rattle the floorboards! A group of soldiers dispatched to the Scottish Highlands on special training maneuvers face their biggest fears after they run into Captain Ryan – the only survivor of a Special Ops team that was literally torn to pieces. For those on the fence about an upgrade, I would certainly suggest you go for it, there are enough new extras to go for, and I honestly do not see there being a better release of the film than this one coming. Cinematographer Sam McCurdy shot Dog Soldiers on 16 mm film (in the Super-16 format) using Arriflex cameras with spherical lenses.

tweaked the actual palette that much in the 4K UHD version, though there seemed to be a somewhat wider range of green tones in particular. Marshall makes a film that’s as effective as something with a big studio budget, both imaginative and in its execution. Telling the story of a bunch of squaddies in an excellently captured pitch battle against unstoppable werewolves, the film is tight, scary, gory, and funny; both natural and super-natural, it is a perfect blend, eminently quotable and fully realised.

transfer, but that’s more accurate to the original cinematography, and it means that detail is no longer washed out in a muddy sea of black. Its a part of that little horror subgenre where you put a group of mercernaries/military unit against some sort of paranormal antagonist. There are also interviews, a making-of documentary, Neil Marshall’s short film Combat, a selection of deleted scenes, and a gag reel with optional commentary from the director. are a little more inscrutable, as we spend most of the time with the squaddies as they defend themselves, it’s not until later that we gather the information to discern which camp the werewolves fall into.

Oh, The Descent might be a better horror film, indeed one of the best horror films of all time, but, in terms of all round satisfaction, Dog Soldiers is the one to beat. For a first feature of the early 2000s, Dog Soldiers came and catapulted Marshall onto some great things, and it is great to go back and remember just how good Dog Soldiers is. The IP-derived shots with optical effects like on-screen titles are naturally softer, but they still integrate reasonably well with the surrounding material.Most of the time, director Neil Marshall follows the soldiers through the murky, misty hills of the Highlands and into a tiny house that is slowly being battered from the outside. Dog Soldiers turned 20 on May 10th that is why I decided to record a little rendition including the upcoming book Sausages - The Making Of Dog Soldiers by Janine Pipe which is out this Friday 13th! Either way, these are the exact same soundtracks as in previous versions, with identical strengths and weaknesses (including the same loud popping sounds at a couple of points).