Rottweiler (2004)

User Rating:

3.2/10   

Director:

Brian Yuzna

Writers:

Miguel Tejada-Flores (screenplay)
Alberto Vázquez Figueroa (story)

Release Date:

10 June 2005 (Spain)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Eat. Sleep. Fetch. Kill.

Plot:

Follows the story of a dog who was beaten severely at a young age and has surgery, in which it's bones are replaced with metallic bones. Later, this half robotic dog comes back for a gruesome revenge..

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Robot | Experiment Gone Wrong | Female Nudity | Chase

Cast

William Miller	...	Dante
Irene Montalà	...	Ula
Paulina Gálvez	...	Alyah
Cornell John	...	Dongoro
Lluís Homar	...	Guard Borg
Paul Naschy	...	Kufard
Ilario Bisi-Pedro	...	Aranda
Nicholas Aaron	...	Sugarman
Lolo Herrero	...	Nacho
Ramata Koite	...	Berta
Bárbara Elorrieta	...	Woman in white
Ivana Baquero	...	Esperanza
Roberto Hijón	...	Said
Abdel Hamid Krim	...	Abu (as Hamid Krim)
Levinson	...	Moja

MPAA:

Rated R for strong gory violence, sexuality, nudity, some language and drug content.

Runtime:

Spain:95 min | Argentina:95 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Singapore:M18 | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R16 | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:18 | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Castelao Producciones

Goofs:

Continuity: When Dante is on the river's edge screaming at the rottweiler coming to get him, his handcuff is on his right hand, while previously and throughout the rest of the movie it had been on his left.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in El maquinista (2004)

Soundtrack:

Dufresne Search Party

That's a bad dog! That's a very bad genetically altered dog!!

In case you are slightly familiar with horror cinema, you must have heard of the name Brian Yuzna already. He started as the producer of some hugely successful horror flicks in the mid-80's ("Re-Animator", "From Beyond") but quickly went on to directing his own grotesque and spirited horror projects ("Society", "Return of the Living Dead part 3"). Personally, I'm a rather big fan of Yuzna. His movies are always very entertaining and stuffed with blood & gore, even though the stories are hardly ever impressive...or even 'good', for that matter. For his latest effort, "Rottweiler", the story is even completely and utterly retarded and then STILL this is a very amusing B-movie with loads of absurd aspects that genre fans will love! "Rottweiler" is set in Spain in a not-so-distant future (2018). In order to avoid further immigration, the misanthropic Kufard (small but terrific role for veteran Paul Naschy) arrests everybody who washes ashore Puerto Angel. One day, he also arrests the young American couple Dante and Ula. They were playing the rich-kids game of "infiltration", in which the players illegally have to cross country borders. That game is just asking for trouble, if you ask me... Some time later, Dante escapes from a prison-transport and heads back to Puerto Angel in order to save Ula, only he's chased by a partly robotic and bloodthirsty Rottweiler that rips every living thing to pieces. The movie is truly incoherent, with extended and unnecessary flashbacks, and often provokes unintentional chuckles. It's fast-paced, though, and contains loads of sleaze and bloody deaths. The Terminatoresque dog looks thrilling and the music as wells as the opening credits are very funky. The acting is atrocious, but that what happens if you recruits cheap Spanish actors and force them to play American characters. The lead guy looks a lot like Orlando Bloom but his acting skills are even worse. "Rottweiler" surely is a meaningless horror film, but it remains fun to watch.