James Marsden should have received his proper due for director Richard Kelly’s overlooked supernatural film The Box, which essentially was an extended Twilight Zone episode.  Marsden’s latest film, Straw Dogs, is also an echo of things past; movie buffs (and Sam Peckinpah devotees) will remember the original 1971 film, which starred Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician who slowly becomes unhinged by the evil that men do.

Filmmaker Rod Lurie changes it up a bit with the new version, as screenwriter David Sumner (Marsden) and his actress wife (Kate Bosworth, Marsden’s co-star from Superman Returns) return to her small town to sell her family’s home.  Unfortunately, a run-in with her ex-boyfriend Charlie (True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard) incites a violent showdown.  The trailer promises a fair amount of bloodletting, and the idea of a suburbanite unleashing his inner rage on the locals makes for solid enough entertainment.  And watching Cyclops brandish a shotgun is all sorts of cool. Straw Dogs, co-starring James Woods and Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), opens nationwide September 16th.

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posted by Greg Srisavasdi