The prologue of Kim Chapiron's Dog Pound illustrates the drastically different crimes that three teenage boys have committed, thus landing them in the Enola Vale juvenile detention center to serve out their sentences. Butch (Adam Butcher) was charged with aggravated assault of an officer, Davis (Shane Kippel) for narcotics possession with intent to sell and Angel (Mateo Morales) for vehicle theft. The three boys are tossed into a large dormitory room with twenty or so others, presumably representing a menagerie of criminal histories. The mere presence of three new boys is a catalyst for a Darwinian realignment of the power hierarchy. The scariest and most violent will rise to the top of the heap, as the meekest cower at the bottom. At the heart of Dog Pound is the fact that most teenage boys seem hardwired to not rat each other out. The boys brutally attack each other, but nobody talks.
- 8/17/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
This account of life in an American juvenile detention centre may not be particularly original, but it's tough and well put together, writes Xan Brooks
Here is a tense, tautly wound penal drama, a kind of pocket A Prophet that charts the mis-education of three young tearaways at the Enola Vale correctional centre in Montana. Perhaps this tells us nothing new about life on the inside in the Us (there are rapes, riots and suicides), but it at least handles its brief with pace and precision. Director Kim Chapiron lines up his cast and lets them go, rattling through the yards and corridors where danger lurks at every turn. Angel (Mateo Morales) is a fallen innocent, Davis (Shane Kippel) a tattooed Oedipus and Butch (Adam Butcher) a lanky, charismatic hothead. All Butch has to do, he is told, is make it through two weeks without blotting his copybook; without manhandling a guard,...
Here is a tense, tautly wound penal drama, a kind of pocket A Prophet that charts the mis-education of three young tearaways at the Enola Vale correctional centre in Montana. Perhaps this tells us nothing new about life on the inside in the Us (there are rapes, riots and suicides), but it at least handles its brief with pace and precision. Director Kim Chapiron lines up his cast and lets them go, rattling through the yards and corridors where danger lurks at every turn. Angel (Mateo Morales) is a fallen innocent, Davis (Shane Kippel) a tattooed Oedipus and Butch (Adam Butcher) a lanky, charismatic hothead. All Butch has to do, he is told, is make it through two weeks without blotting his copybook; without manhandling a guard,...
- 8/26/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
This is the trailer for Dog Pound, directed by Kim Chapiron and starring Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales, Lawrence Bayne, Bryan Murphy, Alexander Conti, Tim Turnell and Dewshane Williams. The Enola Vale Correctional Facility. A juvenile detention centre for teenage boys that the system doesn't know what else to do with. The long-term inmates have built a rigid power structure based on fear and the guards use the prisoners to let out their own frustrations. Butch, Davis and Angel are new arrivals. None of them know each other but they all swiftly realise that the odds are stacked against them and that their only hope for getting through their sentences is if they have each others' backs. But friendship will only get them so far when their endurance is stretched to the limit...
- 8/11/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
Following the poster which was released yesterday for the forthcoming prison drama, Dog Pound, a shiny new UK trailer has been offered up by Optimum, who will distribute the award winning film in the UK.
The trailer gives up a good indication of what to expect, and there’s evidence of some intense performances and the film’s director Kim Chapiron looks to be focusing on the central relationship between a group of inmates before things turn very nasty.
Dog Pound stars Lawrence Bayne, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales and Adam Butcher and is out in the UK on the 27th of August.
Here’s the trailer,...
The trailer gives up a good indication of what to expect, and there’s evidence of some intense performances and the film’s director Kim Chapiron looks to be focusing on the central relationship between a group of inmates before things turn very nasty.
Dog Pound stars Lawrence Bayne, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales and Adam Butcher and is out in the UK on the 27th of August.
Here’s the trailer,...
- 8/5/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Empire have debuted a new UK poster for Dog Pound. The film, which premiered the Tribeca Film Festival, has been met with acclaim, leading to Optimum Releasing acquiring the UK distribution rights.
Synopsis: Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Dog Pound stars Lawrence Bayne, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales and Adam Butcher and was directed by 30-year-old Kim Chapiron, who was responsible for the 2006 horror feature, Sheitan.
The film resembles that of other prison dramas such as Hunger and A Prophet, with the emphasis this time switching to a juvenile prison, giving a astonishing look at how young people deal with the uncompromising standards of prison.
Check out the UK poster below:
Dog Pound will hit UK cinemas on August 27, 2010.
Synopsis: Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Dog Pound stars Lawrence Bayne, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales and Adam Butcher and was directed by 30-year-old Kim Chapiron, who was responsible for the 2006 horror feature, Sheitan.
The film resembles that of other prison dramas such as Hunger and A Prophet, with the emphasis this time switching to a juvenile prison, giving a astonishing look at how young people deal with the uncompromising standards of prison.
Check out the UK poster below:
Dog Pound will hit UK cinemas on August 27, 2010.
- 8/3/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If there's one thing more likely to leave you staggering dazed from the cinema than a brutally uncompromising prison drama - Bronson, Hunger, A Prophet take a bow - it's an uncompromising juvenile prison drama, with extra levels of searing vérité provided by a cast partly made up of real-life inmates. Step forward, then, Dog Pound and its suitably bruising new quad poster.Inspired in part by Alan Clarke's '70s borstal-set Scum, Dog Pound tells the story of three young inmates at Montana's Enola Vale Youth Correctional Center. As the title implies, it's a dog-eat-dog world for drug dealer Davis (Shane Kippel), car thief Angel (Mateo Morales) and violent tearaway Butch (Adam Butcher). Each learns the hard way that lock-up isn't quite what they remember from old episodes of Porridge.Dog Pound is the handiwork of 20 year-old Parisian Kim Chapiron, whose debut, Faustian horror Sheitan, saw him bring...
- 8/3/2010
- EmpireOnline
The opening moments of "Dog Pound" introduce its young subjects in a frenzy of violent acts: Suave 16-year-old Davis (Shane Kippel) gets nabbed by the cops for pushing pills; 15-year-old Angel (Mateo Morales) goes down for assault and auto theft; hot-headed Butch (Adam Butcher) beats up a correctional officer. Immediately after this rapid succession of mini-scenes, director Kim Chapiron delivers the title card, as if presenting the outcome of a societal ...
- 4/28/2010
- Indiewire
Dog Pound, French filmmaker Kim Chapiron's second feature (subtitle-averse, have no fear - the pic is in English) is a chilling look inside a world all too often left forgotten in American cinema: the world of boys' correctional facilities. Their bigger, badder older brothers (prisons) being far sexier and scarier, it's not often that this equally harsh world is given its due. Well, not anymore. Chapiron's film is a gritty, clear-eyed depiction of what one can only imagine goes on behind closed doors at youth institutions. Specifically, the Enola Vale Youth Correctional Center in Montana, where there is a clear hierarchy amongst the inmates, and the social ecosphere is, as it were, dog-eat-dog. Plunged into that world come three newcomers: Butch (Adam Butcher), who assaulted a correctional officer; Davis (Shane Kippel), a drug dealer; and Angel (Mateo Morales), a car thief. Their journey of comprehension and integration - and in one's case,...
- 4/26/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Dog Pound, French filmmaker Kim Chapiron's second feature (subtitle-averse, have no fear - the pic is in English) is a chilling look inside a world all too often left forgotten in American cinema: the world of boys' correctional facilities. Their bigger, badder older brothers (prisons) being far sexier and scarier, it's not often that this equally harsh world is given its due. Well, not anymore. Chapiron's film is a gritty, clear-eyed depiction of what one can only imagine goes on behind closed doors at youth institutions. Specifically, the Enola Vale Youth Correctional Center in Montana, where there is a clear hierarchy amongst the inmates, and the social ecosphere is, as it were, dog-eat-dog. Plunged into that world come three newcomers: Butch (Adam Butcher), who assaulted a correctional officer; Davis (Shane Kippel), a drug dealer; and Angel (Mateo Morales), a car thief. Their journey of comprehension and integration - and in one's case,...
- 4/26/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Typically, walking out of a movie angry isn.t a good sign. Whereas most films that leave a moviegoer livid are just plain old bad films, the rage Dog Pound leaves you with stems from the profound nature of the material and its powerful presentation. Don.t want your kid to end up in juvie? Take them to see Dog Pound. The film opens by introducing us to the main players. There.s Davis (Shane Kippel), a 16-year-old nabbed for drug possession, Angel (Mateo Morales), a 15-year-old convicted of assault and auto theft and Butch (Adam Butcher), a 17-year-old on lockdown for assaulting a correctional officer. Upon handing over their personal items in exchange for their prison garb, the boys are rough and tough, seemingly unconcerned with their current situation. However, it doesn.t take long until they feel the pressure of their keeper, Officer Goodyear (Lawrence Bayne), and the...
- 4/22/2010
- cinemablend.com
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