Coinciding with its 40th anniversary and with the forthcoming remake, director Sam Peckinpah’s notorious thriller Straw Dogs has been carefully restored and remastered for release on two-disc DVD and for the first time ever as a features-packed Special Edition Blu-ray on 24th October 2011.
Discover more about the original in a series of articles running on Straw Dogs Fanhub which will include reactions to the remake, plus details of the screening of the original at The Barbican in London on 9th Nov.
And for your shelf we have copies of the Blu-ray to give away for two lucky winners.
Based on Gordon M. Williams's novel The Siege Of Trencher's Farm, and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, Straw Dogs marked Peckinpah's first directorial step outside the Western genre and into a contemporary (and uniquely British) setting. The result is an unflinching and uncompromising study of primal, barbaric brutality that is generally regarded as one of the strongest statements about violence ever put on screen.
Quiet American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his British-born wife Amy (Susan George) relocate to Amy's rural English hometown in an attempt to flee the violent social unrest brewing in the US. When David hires some locals, including a former boyfriend of Amy's, to repair his barn, the couple find themselves being subtly harassed and bullied by the workmen. The more the pacifist David ignores the problem, the more the harassment intensifies, leading to terrifying consequences as he ultimately finds himself forced to defend his home and his life, discovering a frighteningly vicious side to himself as events escalate towards a bloody climax.
To win a copy of The original Straw Dogs on Blu Ray please Answer the following question:
Q. November 4th sees the release of the new version but which of these three actors below is not in the new version of Straw Dogs? Is it:
- James Marsden
- Stellan Skarsgaard
- Alexander Skarsgaard
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