Protraph Lack of good storyline.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Very underrated and almost forgotten movie about a pack of feral and wild dogs taking over an island of the coast of California tearing apart and eating anyone, man or beast, that they come in contact with. It's up to marine biologist Jerry Parker, "Big Joe" Don Baker, to put an end to the carnage that the wild dogs are responsible for on Seal Island with time running out before he and what's left of the island's human as well as animal population are killed and devoured by them. This all happened so innocently with the people vacationing on Seal Island leaving their pet dogs there thinking that they'll find both food and a home there; Which for the most part turned out to be those people living there. Not once realizing that the dogs will resort to their primitive and wolf-like instincts and form packs in order to survive which in fact is what they did.Shocking scenes of man women as well as animals attacked and killed by this pack of some two dozen wild dogs with Jerry trying to get help from the coast with his radio transmitter knocked out by a winter storm. Lead by this top dog mongrel the pack soon overwhelms the few humans on the island leaving it all up to Jerry and Seal Island's hotel manager Hardiman, Richard B, Shull,to take them on with barley their bear hands after they run out of the little ammunition, shotgun shells, that they had with them.***SPOILERS*** Much like the 1959 movie "The Killer Shrews" the film "The Pack" had the mad and rabid dogs killed not by starving them to death but by roasting them alive in Hardiman's hotel that Jerry, using himself as bait, trapped them in. With all the blood violence and carnage in the movie the final scene will definitely tug on your heartstrings with Jerry who barley survived the dog attacks sticking his hand out in friendship to the last surviving member-scared shivering and cute little mutt-of the dog pack who only joined it when it was abandoned by its master in him feeling that it had a chance to survive in the wild.

The_Void I'd really like to have given The Pack a higher rating, but unfortunately; too many little niggles prevented me from doing so. There have been a few films depicting "man's best friend" attacking man, but in general the idea doesn't seem to be capitalised upon too often. The Pack is certainly the only film I've seen about a pack of wild dogs terrorising a group of humans. The film takes place on a small island, which is a positive element in itself as it brings an element of claustrophobia to the nightmare premise. However, in general; Robert Clouse's film just doesn't capitalise on its positive elements, which leaves it all feeling more than a little bit flat. The plot centres on a group of people on Seal Island, whose serene existence is interrupted by a pack of wild dogs. The dogs have come about, apparently, thanks to people going to the pound to buy a dog to take to the island, and then leaving it there. These dogs are, naturally, very hungry; and it's not long before they realise that the island features a plentiful food supply, and unfortunately for the people there - they are it.The film is at its best when the dogs are on the attack and the director delights in showing them looking rabid and hungry...but unfortunately, they never really look too threatening when they're not tearing into soft-top cars or breaking through windows. Much of the film is really quite boring, and unfortunately there isn't enough in reserve where the characters are concerned to make the film interesting. Veteran actor Joe Don Baker takes the lead role, and does well in providing the offbeat hero as the man doesn't particularly look like someone who you would expect to be fighting off a pack of hungry dogs. The plot hinges a little too much on its set-pieces also, which is unfortunate as there's not much to string them together. It has to be said also that the film is a little too long, and could have done with a tighter editing job. The island location provides a good setting for a film like this, though, and the way that the characters are isolated adds a little extra terror. The ending is strong, and provides a good wrap-up to a sadly merely worthwhile film.

Joseph P. Ulibas 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.

mcfly-31 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.