Rottweiler


About a group of thrill-seeking teenagers terrorized by an unstoppable canine with fangs and jaws of steel and a single-minded bloodlust. Reinforced with modern technology and possessed of an ancient evil that will not die.

LATEST NEWS

5/22/05
Fango got first look at the DVD artwork for Rottweiler. I tried getting a better quality pic from the peeps at Lion's Gate, but they didn't come through well.

3/03/05
Lion's Gate is releasing this film direct-to-video in July.

1/15/05
You can read a cool interview with make-up effects artist Vincent Guastini here. He goes over the effects used in the film for the Rottweiler among other things.

1/06/05
I've added a link to view the trailer.

8/27/04
Director Brian Yuzna spoke with Fango about his current projects, where he mentioned Rottweiler and what fans can expect, saying:"It is probably mostly comparable to [his movie] Progeny, in the sense that it is not a pedal-to-the-metal horror movie. It has more adventure and character than most of my films, and after this one I am looking forward to getting back to making a pure-blooded fright film."

5/24/04
You can check some shots of the "terminator dog" here.

5/05/04
I've added some new pics that were found here.

3/07/04
Director Brian Yuzna talked with SciFi Wire about the film and was quoted saying "that's a monster-dog movie. It's a chase across some rough terrain, with a dog that's kind of like the Terminator's dog."

He then went on to say... "Rottweiler is based on a book by a very famous Spanish writer named Alberto Vazquez Figueroa, which we have a turned into a genre film. His story is more like a duel between a dog and an escaped prisoner, with the dog chasing the prisoner across Central America. In our story, we're putting it a little in the future and adding a bit of technology and also overlaying an Edgar Allen Poe-ish atmosphere. I'm excited about it. It could be really good if we can just make the dog believable."

Lastly he goes on to talk about how they're gonna pull it off on a low-budget... "Obviously, on the budget we're dealing with you don't get Jurassic Park, but, of course, we will use a lot of CGI. So I'll try to mix elements. You saw it in Beyond Re-Animator with the half-man. If we'd done that back in the '80s it would have been real tough. We would have been limited in the way we could shoot it. Now, we still have makeup effects, mechanical effects and animatronics, but having digital technology really helps a lot. So for the dog we'll have a real dog, an animatronic dog and CGI all just to make it a scary monster."

DETAILS

- Brian Yuzna (Beyond Re-Animator) is also producing.
- Paul Naschy plays the dog's owner.
- The script was written by Miguel Tejada-Flores (Beyond Re-Animator) and Angel Sala.
- Based on Alberto Vázquez Figueroa’s novel.
- Slated to start filming in March '04.