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The movie starts with an atrocious CGI clip of a meteor shower that breaks a part of the earth’s canopy. This shower makes glowing green rocks appear everywhere. These meteors cause a few local animals, mostly dogs, to become aggressive and attack any people in sight. Immediately we encounter one of Night Of The Wild’s many issues, its very jumbled script.
We can see what seems like cows behaving strangely and making a strange noise which might be a pseudo moo. Is there a pack of dogs attacking nearby, or are they just ready to fight the farmers? It’s the same case with a group of girls who spot a bunch of cats in a tree. It cuts away just as they find them so we are left wondering if they were attempting to pounce or if they were just waiting for dogs to pass.
Another plot hole is undoubtedly the dog that is inexplicably unaffected by anything that is happening. It is believed that this is caused by its deafness, but it still approaches its owner when he shouts. This wasn’t his fault, Red didn’t write this one, and Delondra Mesa (Rise Of The Zombies, Z Nation) did. It is still unfair to blame him completely, seeing that he only directed Night Of The Wild, and didn’t write or produce it. But one would expect that he would at least care enough to have these sorts of blunders fixed.
The plot has very poorly developed characters including members of a family who are separated and desperately looking for each other as they try to escape from the town before dogs i.e. monster dogs feast on their bodies. Sarah was Kelly Rutherford (The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Scream 3), who played with her new husband and Dave Rob Morrow The Kill Team along with his daughters Rosayln (Tristin Mays, MacGyver, The Vampire Diaries) and little Danielle (Carmen Tonry, Sacrilege) were trying to kick through while the neighbors turn into kibbles and bits.
Despite that, some bits of suspense are generated along the way. And some nice bits of carnage from some of the attacks. Unlike many Asylum films, Night Of The Wild was different in that they used real dogs and props, however, several attacks were lost due to deficient camerawork and poor editing.
How sloppy?! At various points, it’s clear that the actor is trying to perform an attack while holding the dog, and in another scene, the baseball bat clearly misses the dog that the baseball bat is attempting to hit. This could have been solved with a bit of editing. And as a director of Night Of The Wild, that is on him. It is quite disappointing to see such a rooky error being made. This is even less scary than the stock footage bear in All Girls Weekend.
Night Of The Wild could have been at the very least, a decent time waster in comparison to other SyFy films. I could even consider it to be one of their actually good films like MegaShark vs Giant Octopus or Frankenfish. With a name like Eric Red, it should have been. Instead, it is well below average even by these low standards.
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