Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie.

It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm.

While in town one afternoon, David meets Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie and his three friends, Norman, Chris, and Bic.

He also meets Tom Heddon, an alcoholic former high school football coach whose 15-year-old cheerleader daughter Janice is in love with a local man with an intellectual disability, Jeremy Niles.

They often leave early when they want to go hunting, which concerns David because it is taking them a significant amount of time to finish the roof.

One Sunday after church, Heddon attacks Jeremy for talking to Janice, and Amy comes to his defense, but David warns her to not get involved.

Later that night back at home, David discovers their cat strangled and hung up in the bedroom closet.

Amy is positive that Charlie and his friends are to blame as they disappeared from the church barbeque for a few hours earlier, but David is hesitant to confront them.

Afraid of Heddon finding them, Jeremy holds Janice tight against his body with his hand over her mouth and nose, accidentally smothering her to death.

On the way, she tells him that she wants to return to Los Angeles, surprising him and causing him to accidentally run over Jeremy who is standing in the road, breaking his arm.

As Charlie is preparing to shoot the now-disarmed David lying on the floor, Amy approaches from behind with a shotgun.

"I will always protect you, baby," declares Charlie, as David rises to slam the open bear trap down on his head, impaling and breaking his neck, and crushing his windpipe.

As sirens are heard, with the adjacent barn in flames, David says, "I got 'em all.” The film was originally scheduled for release on February 25, 2011.

[7] Kate Bosworth said that to make the rape scene more lifelike, she told her co-star Alexander Skarsgård not to hold back as he pretended to perform the violent sex assault for the cameras.

[13] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune called the film "a bird-brained remake" that is "miscast, barely functional in terms of technique, stupid and unnecessary" and rated it 1 out of 4 stars.

[14] Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe, wrote that watching Straw Dogs was like "being waterboarded by liberals outside a Democratic National Committee event".

[17] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News was also favorable towards the film, giving it 4 out of 5 stars, declaring that "while Lurie could have gone lighter on the symbolism, he ratchets up the tension with deft intelligence.