Coinciding with its 40th anniversary and with the forthcoming remake, director Sam Peckinpahs notorious thriller Straw Dogs has been carefully restored and remastered for release on two-disc DVD and for the first time ever as a features-packed Special Edition Blu-ray on 24th October 2011.
You can discover more about the original in a series of articles running on http://www.totalfanhub.com/straw-dogs/ which will include reactions to the remake, plus details of the screening of the original at The Barbican in London on 9th Nov.
And for your shelf we have copies of the Blu-ray to give away for two lucky winners!
Quiet American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his British-born wife Amy (Susan George) relocate to Amy’s rural English hometown in an attempt to flee the violent social unrest brewing in the US. When David hires some locals, including a former boyfriend of Amy’s, to repair his barn, the couple find themselves being subtly harassed and bullied by the workmen. The more the pacifist David ignores the problem, the more the harassment intensifies, leading to terrifying consequences as he ultimately finds himself forced to defend his home and his life, discovering a frighteningly vicious side to himself as events escalate towards a bloody climax.
Refused a certificate for a video release in the UK until 2002, it’s still a powerful statement on violence. If you’d like the chance to win one of the two copies of Straw Dogs on Blu-ray we’ve got to give away, just sign in to the site below (or click here to register) and answer the multiple choice question (see below for more details on how to enter). The competition closes on November 3rd, so get answering and good luck!