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White Dog
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals; the human being.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to uncompromising social allegory, grim pulp suspense, and morally challenging stories about learned violence.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, dread
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- racism, animal cruelty, moral responsibility, dehumanization, redemption
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, Hollywood streets, training facilities, and isolated roadside spaces