"The Pack" is perhaps the best Killer Dog movie ever made. At first glance, it appears to be a simple enough story that we've seen a hundred times before. Assorted people trapped in a house, locking doors to keep something out. The Killer Shrews, Savage Harvest, Day of the Triffids, and a hundred other films all used this same premise, some with greater results than others."The Pack" is one of the better ones. The people are believable characters with lives that are interesting, not just cardboard cutouts with interchangeable dialogue whom the audience will remember only by their violent deaths. In fact, there's little blood in this film. But lots of menace, as a pack of dogs terrorize people on an island.What makes "The Pack" a cut above other films in its genre is that the dogs aren't played as blood-thirsty monsters. They're simply pets who have been abandoned on an island, and they're just looking for food. In addition to a few genuine scares, this movie also has heart, and last scene will make you cry.Joe Don Baker, Richard B. Shull, R.G. Armstrong and Bibi Besch are among the cast, and the performances are good, but the scene stealer is the lead dog, who's manic, vicious, lethal, and still an animal, a living creature, not just a monster."The Pack" was directed by Robert Clouse, who directed Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon.".

The Pack a.k.a. The Long Dark Night (1977) was another one of those "nature rebels against man" films that were cranked out during the seventies. This time it's dogs and that's where this movie went to. Joe Don Baker and some residents of a Pacific Northwestern town must contend with a pack of mean and wild dogs who decide that they've had it with man. Dogs of all shapes and sizes join together to try and defeat man. Can Joe Don Baker and the beleaguered residents ward off the mangy mutts throughout the long dark night?It's a real cheesy movie that's no great shakes. But if you could find a copy watch it with some friends so you can get a few laughs. I highly doubt that this movie was intended to be a comedy but that's how it turned out. Many of these films were pretty hokey and this one is no exception. The problem with most of these films is that they try too hard. The film makers forget that they're making a cheap animal exploitation film.Not recommended, unless you're extremely bored.

I am so glad that I own this movie. This is one of the best of all the killer dog movies I have seen (Dogs of Hell). The dogs were very viscous animals as they ran together all the time. There was one innocent dog who was very cute. The dogs were so viscous that I felt sorry for whoever was being chased by them.

A group of psychotic dogs is running free on a tiny island inhabited by a handful of folk. The requisite number of people are killed to feed the plot before the finale where all the naughty canines are dispatched. For a low-budget 70's action film, this is very well technically made, as it looks like it could've come out a few years ago. Veteran actor Baker holds things together real well, and the dogs are freaky. With constant snarls and bloodied, torn fur, they put a chill into you. The attack scenes aren't too nasty, kept to just the dogs filmed at a distance pouncing on a victim. Sure, in a regular horror, its amusing for a quick flash of metal and bloodspatter then quickly cut to the next scene, but to continuously see someone's flesh torn from their body would be unpleasant, and director Clouse chose right in limiting that. The climax is pretty good, though the lead dog dies sort of mysteriously and too fast. And the one remaining pooch that didn't give into doggie peer pressure of sorts and stayed away from the pack, has a nice final shot with Baker. But mostly this is too slow to really make it worthwhile.