Wonderful Movie

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Great Film overall

As Good As It Gets

Enjoying a weekend getaway, a group of high-society friends arrive on a secluded island getaway for a vacation finds the entire island is overrun by wild dogs left behind over the years and turned into vicious, hungry kills forcing them to battle the dogs to get away alive.This one here wasn't all that bad and has some good things about it. One of the film's most enjoyable parts is the more realistic and outright plausible scenarios possible for this kind of story, as there's a great tone throughout here that makes for a nice time throughout here. The idea of having this be based around the dogs that have now turned feral and wild out in the wilderness makes for a pretty realistic scenario for this type of story, and is handled in a logical manner with them simply looking for nourishment rather than attacking for any kind of mutation-based change or other forms of alterations that have been attempted over the years. This naturalistic element present here makes for a great basis here and that gives the attacks throughout here a far more realistic bent to them which is aided along nicely by the savageness of the action within here, as they get really chilling with the encounter at the blind man's shack and a great encounter in their home where the swarm traps them inside the car only to eventually be driven away by the neighbor's intervention. A later chase scene through the woods and out to a large rocky outcropping on the top of a cliff is another rather enjoyable action-packed chase with the dogs continually closing in until the final encounter out by the sea, and there's even more great fun to be had here with their attempts at stopping the pack from them storming their hideout in the rain to the failed attempt at running them over with the car and the absolutely crazy attack on their fortress as the pack breaks in at several spots forcing them into some inventive and fun barricading themes that are part of what makes this so much fun. That all of these scenes are fun is mostly due to the fact that there's real dogs in here that are portrayed in here as there's a rather appreciated feel here that comes from the use of real dogs there to interact with and it really manages to score quite well here. However, that also brings out the film's single biggest flaw with the realistic use of the dogs here making this one incredibly hard to sit through which happens with all the brutality inflicted not only by them but also against them. The scenes of the dogs being whacked with baseball bats, clubbed with pieces of logs and being chased around a small lot in a car that's barely missing their legs and snapping jaws is quite hard to watch seeing that the dogs are that close to being in real danger makes for quite a troubling watch for those that have a sensitivity to watching dogs in peril. Likewise, the beginning to this one takes a while to get going as there's a rather long display featuring their going around the island with the dogs in the background that doesn't really have much else going for it. That's all that this one has holding it down.Rated R: Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and violence- against-animals.

***SPOILERS*** Very underrated and almost forgotten movie about a pack of feral and wild dogs taking over an island of the coast of California tearing apart and eating anyone, man or beast, that they come in contact with. It's up to marine biologist Jerry Parker, "Big Joe" Don Baker, to put an end to the carnage that the wild dogs are responsible for on Seal Island with time running out before he and what's left of the island's human as well as animal population are killed and devoured by them. This all happened so innocently with the people vacationing on Seal Island leaving their pet dogs there thinking that they'll find both food and a home there; Which for the most part turned out to be those people living there. Not once realizing that the dogs will resort to their primitive and wolf-like instincts and form packs in order to survive which in fact is what they did.Shocking scenes of man women as well as animals attacked and killed by this pack of some two dozen wild dogs with Jerry trying to get help from the coast with his radio transmitter knocked out by a winter storm. Lead by this top dog mongrel the pack soon overwhelms the few humans on the island leaving it all up to Jerry and Seal Island's hotel manager Hardiman, Richard B, Shull,to take them on with barley their bear hands after they run out of the little ammunition, shotgun shells, that they had with them.***SPOILERS*** Much like the 1959 movie "The Killer Shrews" the film "The Pack" had the mad and rabid dogs killed not by starving them to death but by roasting them alive in Hardiman's hotel that Jerry, using himself as bait, trapped them in. With all the blood violence and carnage in the movie the final scene will definitely tug on your heartstrings with Jerry who barley survived the dog attacks sticking his hand out in friendship to the last surviving member-scared shivering and cute little mutt-of the dog pack who only joined it when it was abandoned by its master in him feeling that it had a chance to survive in the wild.

On a small tourist island, a handful of people is besieged by a pack of wild dogs. What may at first appear to be a TV movie is actually an R-rated bloodfest, as the hungry canines tear into the folks and rack up an impressive body count. The movie has its share of scary moments, and is surprisingly exciting with carefully choreographed sequences of man versus beast. There is no hesitation on veteran action director Robert Clouse's part to show the dogs being killed in equal measure. One great scene has the hero mowing down several of the pack with his truck. Great musical score to boot. Joe Don Baker stars, and several familiar faces, among them Richard Schull, Bibe Besch and R.G. Armstrong, provide strong support. A must-see for action horror fans. Considering the film was made in the 1970s, it feels like it was shot yesterday.

I loved the suspenseful musical score the most. The two "children" in the film were both boys (the sons of the lead woman character, I believe). I own this picture in VHS format. Joe Don Baker's character as the marine biologist is really made to look as a complete idiot. How could someone so smart not have extra provisions on this remote heavily-wooded island for evacuation in emergencies as at least one extra power boat (fully-fueled), more guns and shells than supplied in the movie set, and at least one more radio/antenna set!!! Serious seafarers keep extra equipment as safety in numbers (redundancy). This movie really insults human intelligence as so many cheap flicks do, I suppose. The humans' worst enemy was there own stupidity and not the abandoned dogs, really. Some characters (by a few lines, some rather hostile) in the film even criticize Mr. Baker's character's incompetence as a scientist and tour guide. Mr. Baker's character gets "sly as a fox" toward the climax, though. After a few human deaths, the dogs are defeated in the end decisively, except for that cute innocent little straggler) I still enjoy the picture for its awesome musical score which did put some chill down my spine and make me feel a little uneasy about walking in the woods alone, especially at night, (without at least a loaded gun and one good guard dog)!!