'Straw Dogs'

The remake is due for a remake in a year. It will not be as good.

It's interesting that there are so many films that feature Americans or outsiders in the British Isles where the locals are hostile or suspcious of his actions.

It's not unlike the themes found in Wicker Man, The Quiet Man and An American Werewolf in London. There's something off key and mysterious about the region. They're really old having been home to anciet peoples and the Celts. They hosted the Roman legions and had hundreds of years of wars, death and everything in between. Scandanavia is the same way. Just something creepy about the area.

Straw Dogs was released in the same year as A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection and Dirty Harry -- all four extremely violent films. Furthermore, the rape scene with Amy was censored by the Americans just to get an "R" rating.

Of course, A Clockwork Orange was a comment on violence in society and the other two were two of the grittiest and genuine cop films of the era.

What violent films bring out and remind us of the raw and carnal nature of human beings -- not unlike that of a wild animal. When trapped or when given a reason to attack, they scratch, claw and bite like any other mammal. Straw Dogs reminds us of that.