A Living Dog

A shaky, earthy, rough and true piece of Indie-cinema - with one condition: You have to like giant killer robots! ;)

It is close to perfect score for an independent film made without pay by cast members and crowd funding.

I had the chance to watch this movie during the Landsberg film-festival "snow dance". It is a low-budget movie which surprises with realistic animations and strong film-music/sounds.

The setting is quickly told: robots and drones have taken over the world and are hunting any living human. Our hero has managed to survive and escaped into a wooden-house in the North. There he meets a female survivor who is trying to fight the robots.

The movie lives from the atmosphere and the beautiful shots. There is little talk since any talk would attract the robots. The relationship between the main actors also remains quite superficial.

Expect a dense atmosphere, with few moments where you can escape from this apocalyptic future by diving into relaxing nature-shots of Finland's' forests and lakes.

Also great screenplay and acting. (Only the last minutes felt a bit stretched...)

Seen it at Snowdance Festival in Germany. And never seen a sci fi no budget with this amazing quality in VFX - especially because of the huge amount of VFX shots in the film.

Loved the mood of the film. If you are into indie films I'm sure you will enjoy "A Living Dog" as a very special and unique indie sci fi thriller, even if the very low budget and the very short shooting time cannot be hidden everywhere. But the production value compared to the financial input is near to infinetely.

This is storyline badly written, should have never made it to production. I can honestly tell from the very beginning the intro just how bad the sci-fi movie with me. I can see how they try to bring some attention to detail but it was complete failure. The actress / actors was always looking around at nothing and then when something comes it's still nothing.