Wuchak RELEASED TO TV in 2014 and directed by Eric Red, "Night of the Wild" chronicles events in a small American town after a meteorite shower causes canines to go crazy. Rob Morrow, Kelly Rutherford, Tristin Mays & Carmen Tonry play the family trying to escape the carnage.The extremely low-rated reviews are inaccurate and are obviously knee-jerk reactions to this being an Asylum movie. While Asylum movies CAN suck, this one is pretty good for what it is, a made-for-TV creatures-run-amok flick. Actually, "Night of the Wild" is relentless almost from the get-go with the various canine attacks, the final act going into overdrive. It could even be argued that the horror is so unremitting that the movie is one-dimensional. For the most part, the dogs are real canines and the movie commendably depicts them in a convincingly ferocious manner, which is reminiscent of 1981's "Wolfen." They coulda done better with the women, however. Yet Mays is pretty stunning in a semi-exotic way and Mary Katherine O'Donnell is quite fetching, although the latter doesn't last long. The score is actually quite moving.The only reason I'm NOT giving this a more recommendable rating is because of the dumb things people do during the attacks, the precise opposite of what they should do. For instance, two people leave the sure shelter of the second story room of a house to go back outside where dogs are on the prowl practically everywhere. Or when two people hide under a truck, like the dogs wouldn't be able to perceive them or get to them (rolling my eyes). Also a certain person is seriously attacked in two episodes, but escapes pretty much unscathed. If you can handle these kinds of plot flaws "Night of the Wild" delivers for what it is, a Grade B nature-runs-amok flick.THE FILM RUNS 89 minutes and was shot in Slidell & New Orleans, Louisiana, with establishing shots in presumably California. WRITER: Delondra Williams .GRADE: C+

ronaldt49 Did any of the good citizens see the cats high up in the trees? Generally dogs don't climb trees. Cats do. These cats had enough sense to get as high above the ground as possible! If I look up and see hundreds of cats in a local tree they'll soon have company. ME!! And no entry here has mentioned the cats!

rushknight By Asylum's standards, this movie is a triumph. Since almost all Asylum films feature terrible CGI and brazenly atrocious acting, this film sets itself somewhat apart as it is a bit higher quality.I didn't say it was good. Just better than the average Asylum feature. Asylum movies are characterized by a formulaic construction using an outlandish plot, poor acting, egregious errors in common sense, and insultingly horrific computer animation.So what did "Night of the Wild" bring us? Outlandish plot. Check. We got it here. A meteorite crashes, causing all the canines from every quaint little hamlet in the county to converge upon one little town and maul every happy citizen with a sleeve. Great, I love it. It's nice to see that the townsfolk won't let a few glowing rocks from the heavens stop them from going about their town-ish business.Then comes the acting. Absolutely sub par, but not to the point of being distracting from the movie's action. I'm traditionally very easy on the actors of such films since I don't think anyone can really save a bad movie movie by eloquently delivering poorly written dialogue. What it comes down to is staying in character, and the actors managed it well enough. I'm sure others here will be happy to rip the acting apart, but frankly I don't see much to comment on here one way or the other.Next, we get some absolutely ridiculous distortions of common sense. I mean of course that the characters, when faced with disaster, seem to choose the most obviously insipid course of action available to them, every time, without fail. For many viewers of this genre, herein lies our blessed entertainment.Lastly, the aforementioned terrible CGI. I'm happy to report that for most of the movie, this element is lacking almost entirely. It seems that when faced with a plot line that does not involve mutated fusions of various reptiles and sea creatures, hideously gooey and slimy otherworldly visitors, spectacularly impossible or improbable natural catastrophes and/or large robots, the Asylum studio has enough presence of mind to actually reject hastily constructed and unconvincing computer animation.Or so I had hoped.. Unfortunately by the end of the film it became apparent that the budget was running short and they had to finish the movie in a hurry, so they filmed the car ride and the plane ride in a studio (you never get to see the vehicles moving), recycled and misplaced a scene or two (the blood and makeup mysteriously vanished for about 8 seconds), and then finally surrendered to the urge to do what they do best: add some hastily constructed and unconvincing computer animation. A patchwork finish if I've ever seen one.(Spoiler, the ending credits are apparently ashamed of themselves because they zip up at a truly confounding speed. I knew I should have taken that speed-reading course in college.) Altogether the movie was still entertaining, and in my humble opinion a good move in the right direction for the Asylum studio. It earns one of my higher Asylum movie scores.More please.

GL84 After a meteorite lands in their town, a group of residents finds that the action is causing the local dogs to turn into vicious, man-eating killers and must find a way of containing their viciousness before more in town are killed.Overall this one was quite the enjoyable offering. This one manages to get a lot right here when it comes to detailing the fine action on display, as this one really manages to get a lot of fun with the dogs here appearing quite often to good effect. The opening attack in the town is fun enough, as the sight of the dogs suddenly turning vicious and turning on their owners is quite fun but then it becomes about the chaos and panic they cause on the streets as the everyday life is completely shattered here with the dogs bringing about the fun swarming sequences and how they manage to take down the different groups throughout here which is what makes this so much fun as there's a lot to like here. Even the home attacks are generally a lot of fun with the dogs taking their owners out in suburbia, but the true fun is in the two biggest attacks here in the action-packed stalking in the woods and the later attack on the apple-farm where each one manages to get a lot out of them. The woodland attack starts off nicely with the ambush on the friend and the resulting brawl to save her, which turns into a thrilling need to escape the area before they get overrun as the howling off in the distance continually closes in on them and finally gets to the rather fun time of the hideout in the abandoned truck which brings about a rather thrilling ploy trying to keep herself safe from the dog attempting to get in, while the apple-farm is more about the overwhelming number of dogs running through the area and getting to attack as one massive horde in the scene as the chaos and panic adds to the action. As well, other big action scenes in the final half is quite fun as the rescue attempt from the house and the subsequent race to get away from town generates some fun, while also managing to bring up the first of several minor flaws that hold this one down. The main thing against this is certainly the utter stupidity displayed throughout here which manages to continue putting people in danger more often than saving them, especially from the younger daughter who actively ignores not only her mother screaming at her to get to safety and numerous encounters on her own but even news-reports on TV urging residents away from the dogs in order to check on her puppy which continues forces her mother into danger to save her while almost everyone else here commits something similar continuously throughout here. The last flaw here is the rather bland CGI, which is to be expected here since while this one does some good with the use of realistic dogs but the lame CGI for the meteorites and the wounds looks bad and plainly obvious from time-to- time. Otherwise this one here wasn't all that bad.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and violence-against-animals.