This is the first post in a new column here at Screen Rant: SR Picks. SR Picks will highlight older films that you may not have heard of or you’ve never bothered to watch, but are worth checking out. Enjoy!

“You’re right behind me, aren’t you?”

Dog Soldiers was released in the UK in 2002 and never made it to a release in the United States. I don’t know why, but we all missed out due to that decision in this short lived, one-time franchise. (I say franchise because I can hope, can’t I?)

If you like werewolf movies and you like quality werewolf movies, boy do I have a treat in store for you.

Dog Soldiers sort of has three beginnings, but one definitive ending. Oh where do I start?

It’s the classic movie start: We see a couple camping out in the woods. It’s night time and they hear something outside the tent. We are then treated to the tent zipper being pulled ever so slowly down. Out the opening the screaming girl goes, followed by the blood spattered boyfriend. Their names are irrelevant at this point! There’s somethin’ in the woods folks.

We then switch to a special ops training test to establish a few characters. Trainee Private Cooper (Played by Journeyman star Kevin McKidd) is finishing up a special forces test. The man in charge, a cold war-hardened soldier, Capt. Ryan, (Liam Cunningham) in his own, special ops sort of way, congratulates Cooper on not being caught so quickly, but as one last test, orders the soldier to shoot the dog they used to track him down with. Cooper refuses the order on grounds it is not necessary to shoot THAT dog. In making a point Capt. Ryan caps the dog without an ounce of emotion. Needless to say, Pvt. Cooper is booted from the unit and his animosity is initiated with the cold blooded Ryan.