Jake West's Doghouse starts off with some promise and certainly delivers some inventive gore for horror fans but it soon degenerates into juvenile misogynistic humour that instead of being wry and knowing comes off as silly and dumb.
Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham and Noel Clarke are wasted on a stupid script about a bunch of lads who escape their nagging wives and take a trip to a remote village in order to help one of them get over their divorce only to find themselves under attack by the female inhabitants who have been infected by a top secret biological experiment carried out by the army and have turned into men hungry zombies, oh the irony.
The premise could have worked if West and writer Dan Schaffer had something to say or had introduced some satire but instead all we get are poorly acted zombies lopping off limbs and moaning and groaning their way around trying to terrorise our heroes in an unconvincing manner.
The whole thing is done with tongue in cheek of course but the men vs women jokes get tiresome and there is no real threat or scares so all we are left with are some rather good makeup effects but little else.
This tries to be like Shaun of the Dead (2004) but doesn't come close. If you want to see Danny Dyer in a horror comedy check out Severance (2009) instead.
Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham and Noel Clarke are wasted on a stupid script about a bunch of lads who escape their nagging wives and take a trip to a remote village in order to help one of them get over their divorce only to find themselves under attack by the female inhabitants who have been infected by a top secret biological experiment carried out by the army and have turned into men hungry zombies, oh the irony.
The premise could have worked if West and writer Dan Schaffer had something to say or had introduced some satire but instead all we get are poorly acted zombies lopping off limbs and moaning and groaning their way around trying to terrorise our heroes in an unconvincing manner.
The whole thing is done with tongue in cheek of course but the men vs women jokes get tiresome and there is no real threat or scares so all we are left with are some rather good makeup effects but little else.
This tries to be like Shaun of the Dead (2004) but doesn't come close. If you want to see Danny Dyer in a horror comedy check out Severance (2009) instead.