Based on the novel by David Fisher, The Pack was directed and written by Robert Clouse, whose career found him making everything from Enter the Dragon and Game of Death to Gymkata and China O’Brien. Oh yes, he also made Deadly Eyes, a film that has giant rats played by dachshunds in fur suits.

There are two moments of nature at the beginning of this film. A horse is menaced by unseen predators while a family leaves the dog they adopted for the summer on Seal Island, thinking that a life of being homeless is better than a life in the city. That dog is accepted by the pack and becomes part of the growing army of dogs that has finally had it with mankind.

Jerry (Joe Don Baker) has just moved with his family to this tourist spot and nearly loses his dog to one of the feral pack. He’s keeping his eyes open for that dog, not realizing how many of them there are. That’s how things get started and they get to the point where the dogs are cosplaying Romero zombies, the humans forced to board themselves into a house while all those pups bark their heads off and threaten to come inside and tear them to bloody chunks.

As with all eco-horror, there is only way to stop these dogs. You have to blow them up. They had gotten to the point that they started killing domesticated dogs, but good news. The vacation dog from the opening hasn’t fully turned to evil and Jerry plans on domesticating him.

That’s a happy ending to most humans, but as I looked at my five pound long haired chihuahua practically frothing at the mouth next to me, I knew that he would someday join the pack and murder me. Such is the way of nature.