5/10
pathetic soundtrack mars an otherwise halfway decent suspense movie.
1 November 2006
Warning: Spoilers
if i could use one word to describe this movie,it would be:disconcerting.not really scary,but there was a slight air of unease hovering over the film.the acting was surprisingly okay,and the premise was an interesting one:50 years ago,two children disappeared, a young boy and a young girl.the girl's remains were found,but the boy was never seen again.it was rumoured that he was possessed by a local Indian tribe which may have killed the girl as part of a ritual to stop a severe drought.originally the natives apparently used a white dog in their ritual,(hence the title)rather than humans.no reason is given as to why they would then kill a girl instead.flash forward to present time.five people are sharing a cabin in the same remote location where the girl's body had been found found.I'll leave it at that.the one really annoying problem with this film is the soundtrack.every once in awhile a rock song would startup,which sounded as if the so called band would fail to make the grade as a bar band in the worst fleabag bar in existence.there were at least four occurrences of this,and each band was as horrible as the last.add to that the music does not fit the movie in any way.i'm suspecting the filmmakers hired the band as a favour to someone.it is this element which nearly sinks the movie into "B" movie oblivion.the other problem was the stupid and unsatisfying ending. i'll give this a 5*/10
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