Night of the Wild (2015 TV Movie) User Reviews

Spot the Mistake

[coeluracat · 2/10 · 25 August 2020]

The plot line, what little there is, could be a amalgamation of Cujo and any virus infected meteor flick you've seen. The characters are flat and without personality, so much so that you really don't care who lives or dies and are hoping and praying that some of the more annoying ones die immediately after they are introduced. The introduction of many of them appears to be just so they aren't nameless individuals being attacked and killed. Script dialogue is minimal, and appears only to be there so that there as a punctuation between the dog/wolf attack scenes. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing was written in a single lunch break. I was actually going to stop watching until I noticed the incredibly large number of continuity errors and goofs, after which it then became a fun game of spot the mistake, in nearly every scene. If there was an award for continuity errors then this movie would be at the top and winning an Oscar.

This was less of a Movie and more a game of spot the error and goof.

Simply atrocious!

[michaelRokeefe · 2/10 · 19 August 2021]

A quiet town of apple orchards and cattle farmers is showered with a meteor that crumbles after hitting earth. Mysteriously the towns canine population becomes crazed killers. Citizens become forced to fight back against their own pets. Bad acting and CGI is worthless. Gruesome and graphic scenes of bloody gore. The only decent acting is provided by Tristin Mays. Others in the cast: Kelly Rutherford, Mason Guccione, Carmen Tonry and Rob Morrow.

That's a lotta mutts!

[rushknight · 4/10 · 5 January 2016]

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.

A warning, not a review.

[andreask-07174 · 1/10 · 25 December 2015]

I'm actually an hour and fourteen minutes into this movie while writing this. A brief summary; a meteor lands in a small town turning all the dogs into crazed killers and the people into mindless idiots. This movie is not scary, only annoying. Horrible plot, horrible acting and horrible characters. I really don't care if any of these people survive. I'll watch it to the end only because it's been a long day and I'm too tired to care. But please don't make the same mistake I've made and stay far away from this one. Watch the Green Inferno instead, at least it had some laughs.

It mercifully just ended, one of the worst movies ever. Pray there will not be a sequel.

The worst movie I've ever watched! Insulting to Dog lovers.

[Xikar · 1/10 · 7 May 2019]

I'm a dog lover so I watched this movie. Halfway into watching this movie I began to wonder if there was going to be a story line or is a monster going to manifest. But nothing ever happened. A meteor crashes to Earth and little green lights hover around various farms and other areas affecting the animals, mainly dogs. The dogs become violent, attack and kill people. The acting was punishing. They must have used all their friends to fill the roles. The best acting in this movie was...........THE DOGS. You want more? There is none. That's the movie. Sorry but like I said, it's the worst movie I've ever watched. How did the makers get the money to make this? If it's that easy, I've got ideas for movies that would run circles around this movie.

BAD even by Asylums standards!

[djmrmusic · 1/10 · 23 July 2016]

I am a twisted individual that watches all Asylum Movies, more times than not they are so bad that I enjoy them... THIS is NOT one of them.

there is NO plot and NO story line, A meteor lands and turn all the dogs into man eating (I'd say monsters, but they are still just) dogs...

then it's just 90 minutes of dogs trying to eat/kill people.

there is no explanation, no reason, no conclusion, it's just a really bad movie.

again, I am a FAN of Asylum movies, but THIS is just complete garbage, do not waste your time, there is NOTHING see hear unless you like to see dogs attack humans for 90 minutes...

That is literally all this movie is... LITERALLY!!

If it were possible to rate a movie lower than a 1

[cmv32261 · 1/10 · 8 February 2016]

1st of all let me say that anyone who did rate the movie higher than a 1 is a complete idiot.

In my opinion if it were possible to rate a movie plot lower than a 1 this 1 would have received a decimal point followed by Googolplex zeros.

It should be a crime punishable by death to write scripts as bad as the movie Screen Writers for SyFy any/all Screen Writers that compose such garbage should forfeit their lives.

Everything to define what cinemagraphic garbage this movie is has already been stated.

If you love truly terrible movies, watch this one

[sorceress2 · 1/10 · 8 October 2016]

This is one of the worst movies I have ever wasted 2 hours on. It has little to no plot and none of it is original. Something happens and dogs begin attacking and eating people. Bleh! The characters in addition to being 2 dimensional make every wrong choice they could possibly make.

Usually the point in disaster movies is to survive whatever has happened. Not this one. The characters do everything possible to get attacked by the dogs except perhaps hanging raw steaks around their necks.

I've seen some bad movies in my time; Mysterious Planet were you can actually hear the guy in charge (I will not use the term Director) yelling directions to the cast and Plan 9 From Outer Space which I still don't understand and this one ranks right up (or down) with them.

B movie no! This is a fail.

[dewilliams30 · 1/10 · 26 January 2021]

Usually I'm the one saying the movie wasn't nearly as bad as what the reviews are saying. I enjoy B movies but this? Low budget yes, definitely not entertaining just straight cringeworthy. I was aggravated from the beginning before the attacks began. The acting from 90% of the cast was horrible. The plot- there was no plot. No storyline no character development. I think it would have been better to have just filmed with no dialogue at all. I can't believe this made it to production.

Beyond bad

[kc488 · 1/10 · 17 September 2019]

Night of the Wild is a very bad movie. No actual plot, just a chance to have dogs attack & eat humans in a massive mess of craptastic gore & blood. This would be a bad movie if SyFy made it; that it was not makes this one truly unwatchable

It is what it is and it's pretty good

[loshinkleys · 8/10 · 4 October 2015]

I love to read reviews who will compare this to everything it's not. Let's be clear it's a SyFy made for TV movie. Using that as a guideline, I gave it an 8. It had a dark edge to go along with typical "B" horror humor. Eric Red scared me like no other as a kid with The Hitcher, so I have been a fan since. Acting was above standard compared to many other movies in this category. I loved the chaos and build up to it, the ending was fitting also. Special effects was typical for the budget. If you are a fan of this genre I think you will not be disappointed. Please don't watch expecting something that it is not, use common sense and set your expectation meters down a notch from the all time greats. Coincidence?? Did anyone else notice the adorable little girl looking for Jinx? Check out her shirt...

Cats!!!

[ronaldt49 · 7/10 · 10 June 2017]

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!

everyone deserved to die

[khrob · 1/10 · 4 October 2015]

with as many stupid characters and worst writing this was a must watch to see how awful it would become. Virtually all of the characters in this movie should die and fall victim to natural selection weeding out inferior species and animals. Rooting for all of these idiots to die became my ultimate priority. If movie makers can't do better than this they should quit making movies, I must write ten lines to make it printable, are they serious????? with as many stupid characters and worst writing this was a must watch to see how awful it would become. Virtually all of the characters in this movie should die and fall victim to natural selection weeding out inferior species and animals. Rooting for all of these idiots to die became my ultimate priority. If movie makers can't do better than this they should quit making movies, I must write ten lines to make it printable, are they serious?????

Relentless canine massacre

[Wuchakk · 5/10 · 20 July 2017]

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+

A pack of silly characters and clumsily animated beasts.

[quincytheodore · 3/10 · 25 December 2015]

As though being B-movie low budget horror isn't challenging enough, Night of the Wild opts for canine cast for its monstrosity. Animal use in cinema must be handled delicately, and it's certainly not a level of polish this movie has. Meanwhile, the on-screen characters are ridiculously superficial which makes the production seems more incapable of delivering any convincing scene either with beast or men.

A quiet small town is changed by a fallen meteor, now all the domesticated animals act strangely and violently. The least shallow human character is the main female Rosalyn (Tristin Mays), there's an effort to create backstory on this girl. She also performs well with the dog, but the silly script often relies on repetitive unimaginative running back and forth, thus making her like random sorority girl for most of the time.

The rest is a jumbled mess of shrieking and absolute abysmal acting. It's apparent that the scenes with dogs are pasted in without much consideration. This flaw especially rings true when they have to do a continuous scene. Characters would scream in terror, walk casually or initiates awkward conversations, then resumes the supposed extreme condition with misplaced calmness.

The poor editing even makes the scene disorientating as though they place the sequences incorrectly. People would fall over or get munched suddenly, then the blood would be on the wrong side, and there's a delay on their reaction. It's even worse when the said characters make such stupid decisions, there's not a hint of working common sense at play here, a remarkable example of poor acting combined with insipid script.

This is almost like watching a badly programmed AI in video game where they wander off into random places and mumble some poorly scripted line, oblivious on their impending doom. At half way through it becomes tedious run across mindless screaming and barking, with some blood sprinkled here and there.

Night of the Wild is a dull showing of laughable acting skill and unremarkable monster in dogs painted with fake blood, which disintegrates further into nonsensical noises and howls.

Beagles and Setters and Pugs, oh my!

[lynnwengland · 2/10 · 8 October 2015]

No,no, no! The previous four reviewers have it all wrong. This wasn't a slasher-monster movie at all. It was, instead, a riotous comedy! I literally laughed all the way through. Mostly at the sheer stupidity of the writers and storyline, but some of the mad-dog moments were hilarious! When the two fluffy, white shi-poodles (or whatever they where) bit off their mistress' nose, I was in stitches. See, when Syfy makes an "original" movie or series, you have to expect dumb, pointless scripts and flat, awful acting. So sit back and yuck it up. If you want to grieve then we can go with Eureka and Warehouse 13, both of which were canceled in mid-season by Syfy.

Worst movie from IMDb

[emporiorizzi · 1/10 · 4 January 2017]

I wish to give less than 0 stars, for bad directing and actors playing. This is the most worst movie I have seen!

Even a kid of 10 years old has more imaginations to create better stories to create a good movie than this one.

I admit I have watched till the end only for the curiosity how the movies end, but I saw even the end is really a sh33t like this "movie"! And I wonder, Directors and all staff of this movie, when you saw this movie for the first time, how many of you accepted to publish it? Because it's a REAL bush33t of movie! Do you know it?

Cheers.

Stupid!!!!

[Marynewcomb2013 · 1/10 · 17 July 2019]

Honest review of this gowd awful "movie"!! It starts out making no sense with two guys who are at a deer stand or some kind of stand in the woods, at night with rifles. The meteors start hitting the earth & the wolves are the first to instantly be affected. The two guys don't even fire a shot as the wolves are getting ready to attack. Next it goes to three girls in a an old ford truck, (they must have got a cheap deal on fords because they are all in this). The girls go in the house and you kind out nothing about who they are or anything!!! This is where some reviews have stated about no plot, no story development, no character introduction or anything!!! As the movie moves along, dogs are barking & the camera shows us the glowing fragments near houses, businesses, trees where apples are being picked but NO character sees them, that's not odd at all when they are in plain sight!!! It also shows the horrific acting!!! All the dogs start turning on the humans with the exception of a handful!!! The question is, why were these dogs not affected? Cats are in trees as one reviewer pointed out but NO ONE says anything about a tree full of cats!!! Then we get near the end when a truck gets stuck for NO REASON!!! We also move to how inaccurate this is!! Rob Morrow,(he couldn't save this garbage) finally gets up with his wife and young daughter & he is driving a Chevy when they all get in. The camera starts cutting from inside the truck to the outside as the drive down the road. The outside scenes of the truck on the pavement is a ford, but they are in a Chevy. Then they get off the main road and some scenes show a single cab Chevy that's right but then it out of the blue shows an extended cab ford ranger just before cutting back to a Chevy hitting a dirt mound!!! That's not inaccurate at all!!! It says filmed in Louisiana but you can tell that's not even true!!! There are NO snow covered mountains down there!!! It's clearly filmed somewhere north of there!!! Not only that but the writers, producers & director should NEVER be given a job in films again!!!

A very awful movie.

[jacobjohntaylor1 · 1/10 · 29 March 2018]

This not scary. It has an awful story line. And an awful ending. It also has bad acting. Do not see it. It is just awful. One of the worst horror movies ever.

Repetation of the same

[coldysnow · 3/10 · 1 October 2019]

If you read the description of the movie, you know, what it's all about. There is no other aspectiv, no other storyline. It's a mix from the same scenes all along - dogs, that are eating and attack people. People who do the dumbest things, so that the dogs attack. Seriously - if you are in a house, where are no dogs - stay there! Don't go outside! But the side-characters doesn't care.

There is a main-story, eben when it's a little one. The main character is Rosalyn (Tristin Mays), who wants to go camping with her stepsister and they get attacked by (surprise!) wild dogs. Rosalyn is the only one in this movie (beside her father) who can think. She attacks the dog and save her stepsister (for short time) her life. The other Stepsister can not use her brain, so she ran away and get killed. Rosalyn, although she is on her own, can survive, finds her dad (who has also as the only one a great plan) and her step-mother and Danielle (little step-sister) and they can escape.

The acting is most time a desaster. When they getting attacked and they screah - come on, noone would scream like this, when they have only pain! It's ridiculous. The one stepsister (the one, who tried to escape) does a good job - for the short time, she was alive. And the Tristin Mays does a good job - you see the fear and how she swallow it, to move on - for her family, for her dog (Chep - he is deaf and the only one, who is not crazy). The only one in the movie, who is brave and not idiotic at once. (By the way: The script is not the actors fault, so...for that, they were really good)

Last but not least: the end. What. Was. That? It does not make any sense. It's unnecessary. And its so bad CGI, that my eyes still hurt. Apart from that, I wished for the only non-idiotic human in the village (Rosalyn) that she may survive. Come on! Was that so difficult?

All in all: A really, really bad movie with no plot and even worse CGI. The acting of the main character was good, but apart from that? Wasted time, really.

Pretty darn good for what it is

[GermanyJ21 · 8/10 · 21 May 2021]

No it's not an Oscar contender but it's not meant to be. It's an entertaining killer dog movie. Decent acting and effects for a made for TV movie, and for me anything with dogs that go wild is normally pretty creepy/scary/exciting. Good movies to watch on the weekends or night just chilling, without expectations for anything serious or deep..

Fun Sci-Fi Channel killer dog effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 7/10 · 6 October 2015]

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.

This was soo bad that I actually enjoyed it

[pusimusehus · 1/10 · 15 July 2019]

I don't even know how to describe this one. The script, the acting, the way the film was cut together, just everything was so epically bad. I just could not look away. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Highly recommend it if you love bad craftsmanship. This should win an award for worse film ever!!

This movie is OK

[yoshupunirushun · 3/10 · 27 August 2020]

This movie reminds me of night of the comet where this comet flies over the earth turning people into mindless zombies or turning them into red dust another scary movie is Halloween they could have ended night of the wild to where they found away to destroy the green meteorites this movie needs to have a proper ending try and remake this movie then it will get a better rating

SHE DOESN'T BITE PEOPLE

[nogodnomasters · 3/10 · 9 May 2018]

A CG earth is struck by a CG comet leaving behind green glowing embers that causes wolves and dogs to get their own ideas about animal rescue. As pets turn wild, only Rosalyn (Tristin Mays) the unlikely daughter of two very white adults, knows how to use a knife to fight off canines.

This is made for TV movie in the SyFy unofficial series of " Making fun of classic novels." "Night of the Comet" would have been a better name, but it was already done and better.

I just didn't feel the terror. A film you can watch for free on TV and then forget.