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Are you kidding? This flick is poor flat!


Sorry guys, I cannot get the high level of enthusiasm about Doghouse - especially here in the board. Doghouse is just a bunch of silly zombie slayer action with some gore effects. If that is everything you need, than you are served. Other than that the movie lacks almost everthing you even need for such thing as zombie-comedy-flicks:

1. No storyline at all!
2. No acting just plain screaming and running!
3. No interesting characters!
4. No surprises!

I could get on and on. But I'll stop right here. Doghouse is a complete waste of time and money. Take a look at "Zombieland" or "Shaun of the dead" if you are into funny zobie stuff. These two are really fun and worth to watch.

Doghouse. 3/10

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Yup. I hated it too.

I see you're generous with your rating. I gave it a 1.

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It's a terrible film. Made for 13 year old virgins as far as I can tell. If you're a 13 year old virgin, feel free to disagree...

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Well, I'm not thirteen and neither may I add I'm a vrigin and I enjoyed it. And I thought you were supposed to criticise films on these message boards not the people who watch them lol And at least make an attempt to make intelligent criticisms rather than reduce your self to making childish, b*tch comments please.

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ya this was awful. i just watched it hoping it woul dpick up...but nope pure garbage...and i was high

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i thought it was amusing..

chis

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wow did i ever hate this..i have copy of evil aliens and when i found out it was the same director im going to avoid watching it all together....HOW CAN ANYONE DO SUCH A HORRIBLE MOVIE...why does it have a decent rating in imdb????? please dont waste your time

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Yeh its pretty rubbish. Its not the worst thing ive seen but its bad.

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i loved it to, funny, bit sick, bit scary. Nice mixture i thought

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I sought this movie out due to Empire magazine's 4/5 review ... it was bloody awful.

Terrible acting, effects and unfunny jokes. If you want to watch a zombie movie, Mulberry Street or Pontypool are waaaaay better.

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i was lmao the whole time watching this crap - and the zombie with the scissors go snip snip snip - wtf?!?! nyahaahaha. the only good part as far as i can remember is at the start with the girl in her skivvies, who threw the red shoe (she wasn't that hot at all, but that was the best part of the movie... yeah, it was horrible).

however, the quality of the film shooting was not bad (they weren't using palm sized handycams, that's for sure). even with the limited resources available to them, i suspect that the people behind the camera knew what they were doing. but the movie itself, forget about it.

- i'm a sucker for good indie films

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I watched it last night and enjoyed it - I thought it was a pretty decent low-budget horror comedy. Better than I expected but not in the same league as Shawn of the Dead. The ending was a bit lame and the characters seemed to quickly get over the deaths of their friends but it wasn't awful IMHO.

...now I do it just to watch their f----n' expression change.

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Well... I happen to have a difference of opinion here.

1. No storyline at all!

The storyline, in fact, was about coping with the failure of marriage and the mid-life crisis of the lead character. Each character had an individual sub-plot that had some sort of an effect on the main character with regards to the influence on his life. The entirety of his crisis finally comes to a head when he's left with only two friends, the two friends he happens to have the least amount of respect for. He just watched all of his other buddies get slaughtered by the women and his whole life has been about pleasing a wife that ultimately got bored and took off on him. So, yes, there was a plot. It happens to appeal to adults over the age of thirty with a certain amount of life experience, but the plot is there.

2. No acting just plain screaming and running!
Like Danny Dyers' off color comments and dismissive attitude? Or the playful immaturity of the Matt character? Did you watch the film or keep it on the background while you played "Call of Duty" or some other such nonsense? There's another thread on here about favorite quotes... in order to have a favorite quote, there would have to be a significant amount of "Dialogue" wouldn't there?

3. No interesting characters!
Except for the characters introduced in the early moments of the film, I would have to agree. Not one other character is of interest in this film, considering that they're all slavering hordes of zombirds. But if you DO happen to include the main characters, it's a pretty good ensemble.

4. No surprises!

No argument there... I wasn't so much surprised as pleased with a good story, good effects, and well written comedy that appeals to an older audience.

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Redcapjack knows his *beep* just finished this movie and I *beep* loved it. Its hard for most movies to care for one or 2 of the characters in the movie to. In this movie I didn't want any of them to die and am so glad they saved it for the third act. Would recommend and watch again

TUB 4:20

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Agree. There's no suspense, no story, and all characters were lame. I din't find it funny too. It was just too irritating.

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I found this to be a laboured, misogynistic piece of rubbish. There was no suspense just a lot of silly situations and plenty of gore. These men were awful in their attitudes toward women and all the women were written as shrews or zombies. Perhaps written by a man who was having serious woman trouble.

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you know what's funny about the misogyny, is that i thought it would end up being my central complaint-- turns out the whole thing just ran out of steam halfway through. the movie just wasn't structurally sound enough for me to give a $#!t beyond that point. too bad, b/c it seems like a wasted opportunity for good satire.

"Ugh! I don't like this." --Ambrose Bierce

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It's sooo bad, it's funny.

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