Until we see Rod Lurie’s updating of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs it is perhps unfair to hurl it towards the Pointless Remake bin and yet it is a brave move with the 1971 film still as powerful and complex ever.

Perhaps sensing the relatively simple and timeless horror of the story Screen Gems are serving up another slice of Straw Dog pie with Kate Bosworth and James Marsden terrorised by Alexander Skarsgård and his (un)merry band of men.

The trailer didn’t surprise, though with this casting I half expect this all to be a front for Bryan Singer’s secret Superman 3 remake with Skarsgård under the control of a pissed off Brandon Routh with darkened Superman costume and five o’clock shadow. That is my hope.

Here’s what Mr. Synopsis says,

L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) relocates with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Straw Dogs will invade or cinemas in the UK on the 28th of October.

Here is the gallery of posters coming to a strategically placed bus stop near you.

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