Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo'

September. 01,2007

Rating：

6.8

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Movie Business Making Of Horror Filmmaking

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Documentary about the making of the 1983 thriller "Cujo"

Lewis Teague as Self

Dee Wallace as Self

Danny Pintauro as Self

Jan de Bont as Self

Charles Bernstein as Self

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Reviews

Protraph

2007/09/01

Lack of good storyline.

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Pluskylang

2007/09/02

Great Film overall

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ChanFamous

2007/09/03

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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Matho

2007/09/04

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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Michael_Elliott

2007/09/05

Dog Days: The Making of Cujo (2007) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Three part documentary takes a look at the making of CUJO, the cult 1983 film, which turned into a rather profitable hit for the studio. Dee Wallace, Lewis League, Danny Pintauro, Jan de Bont, King expert Douglas Winter as well as the producers and composer are all interviewed and tell some good stories about the making of the film. Some of the highlights include Wallace talking about the various things they have to do to the dogs because they were simply having too much fun and they weren't looking scary enough. This includes making sure to tie their tails between their legs so that it wouldn't move around as they played. The director also talks about how he got hired and the various changes that went on during pre-production. There's also some talk about the how many dogs were used and it's clear that no one really knows. We also learn which scenes a human in a costume was used as well as just a mechanical dog's head. It seems that everyone was very happy with how the film turned out and especially director Teague who calls it his greatest work. It would have been nice had Stephen King been involved but Winters does give a few comments about the original novel and how the author got the idea for the story.

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