Rottweiler (2004) * (out of 4) THE TERMINATOR, CUJO and a few political thrillers are all thrown together by cult director Yuzna and the end result is pretty bad. Set in Spain in 2018, an American prisoner escapes from prison only to be chased by a sadistic rottweiler who he eventually kills. What he doesn't know is that the dog is a cyborg and keeps coming back to life and will kill whoever gets in its way. Yeah, that's right now. I find it pretty funny that this flick was released in Japan as TERMINATOR 2018 but no matter the title this thing here is a real stinker. It's sad but I knew this film was dead on arrival during the opening prison escape as the special effects were so poorly done that you knew things weren't going to get any better. What shocked me was how much useless plot was in this thing because we've got countless genres going against one another and for the life of me I can't figure out what the director was trying to do. There's certainly a political side to this film and none of it ever makes sense. The American, Dante, is trying to get back to his girlfriend after the two accidentally entered Spain where he would eventually be held captive while she gets sexually assaulted by a madman (Paul Naschy). The political nature of the prison camp and everything else is just pointless and adds absolutely nothing to the film. Even if this political stuff works only fifty-percent that wouldn't be good enough because the horror side of this is also quite poor. The dog is never scary because you can tell when a puppet is being used and his steel teeth just aren't frightening. The entire chase of the dog and the American contains no energy, no flow and is simply boring all together. I'm really not sure why the dog wouldn't just go after his main target or why he needed to kill everyone else around him but at least the film didn't add another subplot trying to give the dog some sort of personality. The idea of a cyborg dog is pretty stupid but this film makes it a lot worse than it should be. Even the performances are all rather forgettable with the exception of horror legend Naschy who gets a decent sized role here.

Rottweiler is a great movie that a lot of people just can't seem to appreciate for it's feel. It is a movie piece and not just bland horror. The film follows a prisoner who has escaped and must find his lost lover. He is also being chased by a rottweiler who is essentially a cyborg. As we go further on we get glimpses into the past. The movie puts out a lot of odd stuff, that while people who don't like to think with there movies will find it boring, people should be drawn in by just where is this going. In the end we get even more confused by what happens when Dante reaches the town and then comes the big reveal as to what exactly happened to get us to where we are. The reveal makes the movie all come together and comes together as a piece. Great movie and I would recommend it to people who really want something good.If you want some gory disgrace of a horror film, not here If you want something mainstream box office style, not here If you want a good piece to sit down and watch (maybe a few times) then here it is, see Rottweiler.

Set in a cheap looking future, Rottweiler delivers a series of confusing events that manage to successfully amuse the audience.First, well we have the half dog half machine Rottweiler (I love those dogs), then two strange birds, an escaped convict, and more colorful characters.Well this movie has no head or feet since the beginning but delivers to entertain for morbid purposes. I mean, I couldn't stop watching after the cheap intro and opening credits. Then I wanted to stop watching it for the longest male chase sequence that I remember. In fact, the longest chase sequence involving a nude man! Damn weirdness.Anyways give this movie a try if it's on cable. Otherwise, it could frustrate you. Yuzna is one weird and mysterious Director, that's for sure.

Typically awful Yuzna exercise, this time mining the "monster dog" genre having this human-eating, bloodthirsty mutt chasing convict Dante(William Miller)through this totalitarian country. He is bitten twice by it, but somehow, despite how others are torn to shreds, escapes his clutches. This film embarrassingly finds numerous ways, when there shouldn't be none, for Dante to constantly evade dire harm. It's essentially a series of near-death scenarios as he is caught by one prison guard with cowboy boots(?!)who was in possession of the rottweiler, is pretty much raped by some former-whore named Alyah(Paulina Gálvez), who becomes lunch,with a daughter , runs into three drug-runners who are interested in the boots he stole from the prison guard he blows away, and finally makes it to this metallic city(which resembles Pittsburgh or Chicago) where prostitution runs supreme with constant trafficking of drugs and narcotics. Dante's memory has been dodgy since beaten to a pulp by the sickening leader, Kufard(Paul Naschy out of all people..inspired casting, I'm sure) of this country's prison unit, or whatever it is, and he pursues the love he was separated from when circumstances brought them apart. There's this game called Infiltration where certain products of wealth(Dante and Ula) see if they can escape dangerous, patrolled waters..whatever. Dante spends most of his quest searching for Ula(Irene Montalà)when he isn't barely surviving the killer dog out for blood.There are certain repressed memories Dante is trying to retrieve and it concerns what happened that night he and Ula were caught by Kufard. This also concerns the reason the rottweiler is beyond mortal..it had some sort of scrape with Dante resulting in it's skeletal structure(..and teeth) being changed partially into metal which means it can rip people apart for the hell of it without anyone doing much to him. He's pretty much a robotic killing machine. This film contains some graphic neck attacks among other flesh ripping from the killer mutt. Yuzna shows it pulling away vital organs from the torsos of victims, chomping on the skin around the skeletal remains of human meat, etc.