Went to see the remake of Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" last weekend. Other than moving the location from rural England to the rural South -- and the professional background of the young couple (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth take over for Dustin Hoffman and Susan George) -- it's pretty much a scene-by-scene remake of the controversial 1971 original. It's hard to say I "liked" the film -- it's violent and disturbing and very upsetting -- but it was well-crafted, suspenseful and incredibly well-acted, especially leading man Marsden. (Has anyone thought an Oscar nod is possible?) Most disturbing, of course, was its infamous rape scene. There's nothing sexy about rape, but when Alexander Skarsgard is the attacker -- and you know it's make-believe -- the results are shamefully confusing, to say the least. My grade: B.
More of the rapist Skarsgard HERE.
Del Henney was the original rapist
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