Waste of time

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

DOGHOUSE is a British stab at the comedy horror genre, featuring a group of guys who go off on holiday to a remote woodland locale and find themselves at the mercy of some zombie-type creatures. It's a film that's more than happy to reveal its inspirations, which here seem to be the likes of horror classics such as THE EVIL DEAD as well as more recent fare like SEVERANCE, which also starred Danny Dyer.As such, the story is entirely predictable and almost everything that happens has been done before, and probably better. Despite that, it's quite a watchable film, filled to the brim with lots of humour - a lot of it sexist, it has to be said - and gore effects which keep it bubbling along. It's surprisingly entertaining given the pedigree of director Jake West, who has made some real tosh over the years (I'm thinking of EVIL ALIENS in particular).The cast is littered with familiar faces and more than a few decent actors (Stephen Graham, Noel Clarke) and Dyer plays one of those laid-back, likable lead characters that he always seems to adopt. The special effects and various action scenes are all well-handled, although it has to be said that the actresses playing the various Zombirds are all terribly, embarrassingly over the top (particularly Emily Booth). Still, this is unashamedly adult in tone, which is a plus, and it's a masterpiece in comparison to the execrable LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS!

When a group of friends decide to take a trip to a small town to help a friend get over a divorce, they find the area overrun by women mutated by a virus into ravenous cannibals and must try to escape from the town in one-piece.This turned out to be another modern British horror effort that provides plenty of action and stuff happening that it's almost impossible not to be grossly entertained by what's going on. The film is a non-stop effort packed with tons of confrontations with the women, which is what's so much fun due to the fact that it never slows up and continually dishes out gory deaths, big action confrontations and tons of fun. With the deformed women also giving it some more fun to be had with their grotesque appearances and the comic-ness of dealing with them gives it some extra oomph. The film's biggest problem is the abundance of misogynistic actions undertaken here, mainly from how they're presented in the beginning which are supposed to be the heroes of the film, yet none of them are really interesting enough to care what happens to them. That's really the only thing wrong with this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Here is one of the most hilarious Zombie spoofs to come digging it's way out of the grave! 2009's, "Doghouse" is an absolutely original take on the way over used & abused Zombie sub-genre.A group of friends take off for a boys weekend of boozing, bonding, babe hunting, & all out good ole fashioned debauchery, as their trying to cheer up a buddy who has just went through divorce. They hire a mini bus with a hot female driver, & off they go into the English countryside to a village where another friend lives.Right off the bat you know this is going to be a funny affair, as one wife or girlfriend gives each of the guys the third degree for taking off together for a weekend of fun. Yes, these guys are hen pecked, & ready to fly the roost. Little do they know that the hens in the village are ready to peck them to death, as their all Zombies looking for that special guy which just happens to be any guy who crosses their path. Yes, these hens have sharp teeth & claws, & rooster is on the menu! What ensues is mass black comedy hilarity as our group of roosters try to get away with all their feathers still intact. The female Zombie make up is first rate & diverse! We have a hooker Zombie, a Grandmother Zombie, a barmaid Zombie, a beautician Zombie, a young bride Zombie, a woman politician Zombie, a teenage girl Zombie, a woman butcher Zombie, & maybe the most hilarious of all, a hugely obese housewife Zombie dressed in a huge tent of a bathrobe & hair curlers that loves candles on her cake made of men's fingers. Instead of having her cake & eating it to, she just likes to munch on a finger or two, or three, or four...Yes, it is revenge of the hens, as the roosters are crowing for help & trying to fly away with clipped wings! One funny scene after another fills this hugely entertaining black comedy, as our roosters devise anyway they can to overcome the chopping block, but those hen's feathers a ruffled, their beaks are ready, & their tummies are clucking! This is one film where the rooster want to fly the coupe & never come back!

I don't even know where to start with this.We're introduced to our cast of characters in scenarios where it is firmly established that men (even gay men, provided they're not effeminate) are good, simple creatures, with good, simple drives, and women (and gay men who are effeminate) are nasty, hormonal, screeching control-freaks who just want to spoil the lives of good, simple men.And... That's pretty much it for the entire film. Seriously. That's the entire film, in a nutshell.Of course, it tours through pretty much every gender cliché you've ever been offended or disappointed by, and it also contains Danny Dyer. And let's face it, casting directors who cast Danny Dyer need to be shot. Because he's crap. And this film is no exception to that rule: He can out-Cockney you, he can out-bloke you, but he really can't out-act you, he is Danny "Dire" Dyer.Sadly, he's not even the worst actor in the film. The only reason that I scored this a 2 out of 10 instead of a 1 is that I have a bit of a thing about Nicola Jane Reading, who played the busty zombie-witch.