"Brutal Art House Satire of Human Behaviour"
Receiving its UK premiere at FrightFest, Andres Goteira's visceral, brutal art house take on the nature of human behaviour is now getting a DVD release courtesy of Yume pictures.
The title is a corruption of two terms which are defined as the film begins: Dogs (submissive & obedient animals) and Hogs (dirty & wicked animals). We're only going to meet one dog and no hogs at all in the ensuing 85 minutes, because what director Goteira is really setting out to do here is comment about some of the more sordid aspects of human beings.
He does this within the context of three chapters detailing several storylines that intersect and cross over each other. A taxi driver takes a man to a hotel where he gets talking to a woman and they end up going up to his room. After, the woman is kidnapped by a guy with a pickup truck who drives her out into the bleak Spanish landscape. There we meet another man (and his dog) who lives in a tumbledown shack, his prized possession an expensive-looking rifle with telescopic sights.
But there's more going on here. Who is the mysterious audience we see observing these onscreen proceedings throughout the film? Are the actions we're seeing perhaps influenced by us watching them? Has director Andres Goteira perhaps been somewhat influenced by a certain film by Michael Haneke?
DHOGS has elements of David Lynch as well, so don't expect the film to end with everything explained. In fact that's one of the movie's strengths. If you like your art house movies bleak and contemptuous of humanity, with violence to match, then DHOGS might be just what you're looking for.
Yume's DVD has no extras, but you do get the option of Dolby 5.1 and 2.0 sound mixes.
Andres Goteira's DHOGS is out on DVD & Blu-ray from Yume Pictures on Monday 25th February 2019
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