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Straw Dogs
Crime, Drama, Thriller
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically punishing slow-burn thrillers about civility collapsing under social pressure and primal violence.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, dread
- Payoff
- catharsis, unease
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- alienation, masculinity, sexual violence, social hostility, revenge
- Setting
- early 1970s, isolated rural village and countryside