I’d never seen a movie like Straw Dogs. Neither, I’ll wager, had anyone else. I wasn’t exactly blindsided. The Wild Bunch, a Peckinpah Western bookended by shootouts with more bloodletting ...

Straw Dogs amounts to a raw slab of red meat to tempt and probably satisfy the hoi polloi. But to anyone who’s seen Sam Peckinpah‘s provocative and unsettling 1971 original, Rod Lurie’s redo ...

In one of her most famous reviews, Pauline Kael described Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” as “the first American film that is a fascist work of art.” Released in 1971, the movie follows an ...

Though perhaps more studied than loved, Sam Peckinpah‘s 1971 “Straw Dogs” was both a product of its tumultuous time and a film filled with provocative ideas, however upsetting and ...

“Straw Dogs” ups the ante ... Mr. Lurie, who gets a co-writing credit alongside the film’s original scripters, has moved the setting to the contemporary American South, but he’s also ...

Boy, was he right. And with that, Dustin was giving me the first of my four basic rules in remaking a film. What Dustin was telling me is I should remake Straw Dogs, not Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs.

1971 was a watershed year for the British Board of Film Censors: Ken Russell’s The Devils hit the examiners squarely between the eyes, quickly followed by Sam Peckinpah’s Cornish Western Straw Dogs ...

LOS ANGELES — In one of her most famous reviews, Pauline Kael described Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” as “the first American film that is a fascist work of art.” Released in 1971 ...

According to Rod Lurie, his new “Straw Dogs” is not Sam Peckinpah‘s 1971 ... Hoffman might want to kick his ass for remaking this movie,” Marsden said. “See! I was perfect for the ...