"If we do happen to make contact, I expect nothing less than gratuitous violence from the lot of ya!"

One of my werewolves took a silver bullet last week. Shame. He was a good dog.

Werewolves are purebred, believe it or not, so they pack along a lot of issues with their joints when they get older, but not this wolf. He wouldn't lollygag. He'd leap right out at you and tear your throat right out, and boy did he hate vampires! I never understood that blood feud, but he lived it.

I'd have played fetch with him more, but he was a humpy one. He wasn't as bad as the goat or the cenobites, but I eventually had them neutered. The cenobites thanked me, then went up to earth to tear some new ones off of mortal perverts. You'd be surprised at how many of those folks there are, and astonished to learn how many of them get that damn box open.

Anyway, in honor of our fallen wolf, this week's Thursday Thriller is Dog Soldiers.

This 2002 action-thriller was written and directed by English filmmaker Neil Marshall. It's about Private Cooper (Kevin McKidd), who wanted to join the special forces, but Captain Ryan (Liam Cunningham) said he couldn't hack it because Cooper wouldn't shoot a dog.

Later, Cooper's unit goes on a training exercise in the Scottish Highlands against Ryan's unit. All of a sudden, they're set upon by werewolves, and manage to catch a ride with a zoologist named Megan (Emma Cleasby) back to a nearby farmhouse, where the monsters hound them all night.

Get it? Hound? Antichrist almighty, I'm turning into the Crypt Keeper.

Blood, shape-shifting monsters, gunfire, and an implausible number of plot twists -- This movie has a lot going for it. I usually prefer werewolf stories that focus on the hapless lycanthrope's struggle with living damnation, but 1428elm.com says this is a perfect werewolf movie. I'll concede, Night of The Living Dead but with Werewolves and Army Men is a lot of fun to watch.

Dog Soldiers streams on YouTube.