Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Enjoying a weekend getaway, a group of high-society friends arrive on a secluded island getaway for a vacation finds the entire island is overrun by wild dogs left behind over the years and turned into vicious, hungry kills forcing them to battle the dogs to get away alive.This one here wasn't all that bad and has some good things about it. One of the film's most enjoyable parts is the more realistic and outright plausible scenarios possible for this kind of story, as there's a great tone throughout here that makes for a nice time throughout here. The idea of having this be based around the dogs that have now turned feral and wild out in the wilderness makes for a pretty realistic scenario for this type of story, and is handled in a logical manner with them simply looking for nourishment rather than attacking for any kind of mutation-based change or other forms of alterations that have been attempted over the years. This naturalistic element present here makes for a great basis here and that gives the attacks throughout here a far more realistic bent to them which is aided along nicely by the savageness of the action within here, as they get really chilling with the encounter at the blind man's shack and a great encounter in their home where the swarm traps them inside the car only to eventually be driven away by the neighbor's intervention. A later chase scene through the woods and out to a large rocky outcropping on the top of a cliff is another rather enjoyable action-packed chase with the dogs continually closing in until the final encounter out by the sea, and there's even more great fun to be had here with their attempts at stopping the pack from them storming their hideout in the rain to the failed attempt at running them over with the car and the absolutely crazy attack on their fortress as the pack breaks in at several spots forcing them into some inventive and fun barricading themes that are part of what makes this so much fun. That all of these scenes are fun is mostly due to the fact that there's real dogs in here that are portrayed in here as there's a rather appreciated feel here that comes from the use of real dogs there to interact with and it really manages to score quite well here. However, that also brings out the film's single biggest flaw with the realistic use of the dogs here making this one incredibly hard to sit through which happens with all the brutality inflicted not only by them but also against them. The scenes of the dogs being whacked with baseball bats, clubbed with pieces of logs and being chased around a small lot in a car that's barely missing their legs and snapping jaws is quite hard to watch seeing that the dogs are that close to being in real danger makes for quite a troubling watch for those that have a sensitivity to watching dogs in peril. Likewise, the beginning to this one takes a while to get going as there's a rather long display featuring their going around the island with the dogs in the background that doesn't really have much else going for it. That's all that this one has holding it down.Rated R: Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and violence- against-animals.

I loved the suspenseful musical score the most. The two "children" in the film were both boys (the sons of the lead woman character, I believe). I own this picture in VHS format. Joe Don Baker's character as the marine biologist is really made to look as a complete idiot. How could someone so smart not have extra provisions on this remote heavily-wooded island for evacuation in emergencies as at least one extra power boat (fully-fueled), more guns and shells than supplied in the movie set, and at least one more radio/antenna set!!! Serious seafarers keep extra equipment as safety in numbers (redundancy). This movie really insults human intelligence as so many cheap flicks do, I suppose. The humans' worst enemy was there own stupidity and not the abandoned dogs, really. Some characters (by a few lines, some rather hostile) in the film even criticize Mr. Baker's character's incompetence as a scientist and tour guide. Mr. Baker's character gets "sly as a fox" toward the climax, though. After a few human deaths, the dogs are defeated in the end decisively, except for that cute innocent little straggler) I still enjoy the picture for its awesome musical score which did put some chill down my spine and make me feel a little uneasy about walking in the woods alone, especially at night, (without at least a loaded gun and one good guard dog)!!

A woodsy island with a few locals that's occasionally visited by tourists is endangered by a pack of about fifteen feral dogs. They're mostly dogs tourists bought and brought to the island to keep them company for a vacation, then left behind. The leader is very mangy- looking, and usually baring its fangs. The rest look more like pets. The last addition is a dog we get to see being abandoned, and while it is accepted by the pack, it straggles behind, often getting its leash stuck on fallen trees and so on. We get to have some sympathy for it. The movie might have been better if they picked wilder-looking or more muscular dogs, or ones that could act meaner.The wild dogs are first discovered when the dog belonging to Joe Don Baker's marine biologist character is attacked by the leader, and Baker spots it. Initially, it's thought to be the only wild dog. However, it becomes apparent it's one of many, and unfortunately Baker's CB radio isn't working, and a ferry isn't due for four more days.For those into gore, not much of the attacks are shown, and dead people are never shown (though people are killed), only some dead dogs are seen after being shot or run over. There's some foul language and no nudity.There's an older man on the island who apparently hired a woman to have sex with his simpleton overweight son of thirty or forty years of age (they don't - he's not interested). Those characters were pretty annoying. Other characters are pretty inefficient about boarding up or barricading doors and windows against the dogs, and people who know about the dogs still drive around with their car windows down all the way. A bit with a rowboat peters out without much resolution, when I expected some.

THE PACK is a pretty good '70's animals attack movie. Mind you, it's no DAY OF THE ANIMALS and could never be a modern day classic the likes of GRIZZLY, but it holds it's own. Joe Don Baker is a marine biologist who has to fight off a crazed pack of hounds left behind by uncaring vacationers. It's funny that there was a time in America where you could be a Joe Don Baker and get the girl and save the day.There's some good jolts but the dogs aren't that scary. Dalmatians are not scary. Collies are not scary. If it wasn't for the doberman and the lead canine, which is referred to as a "mongrel mix", who'd really care? But Clouse is a competent enough action director to make you believe this type of balderdash and, I, for one, bought it. It's just so damn refreshing compared to the unimaginative efforts foisted upon us today. If I saw it in the '70's, I'd probably tell everyone it sucked, but that's how time changes everything and our perspectives. If it's sitting somewhere collecting dust at your video store, pretend your kissing your grandmother and snap it up. It'll probably be like that time you didn't want to go and see her but ended up having a cool time and then next time it wasn't so bad and....