Reservoir Dogs During the period of unavailability on home video, the film was re-released in UK cinemas in June 1994. "Reservoir Dogs" is regarded as an important and influential milestone of independent filmmaking. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 91% based on 66 reviews (60 fresh, 6 rotten), and an average rating of 8.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Thrumming with intelligence and energy, "Reservoir Dogs" opens Quentin Tarantino's filmmaking career with hard-hitting style." On Metacritic the film had an average score of 79 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". "Empire"
The Plague Dogs (film) Canadian industrial group Skinny Puppy for their anti-vivisection single, "Testure", from their 1988 album "VIVIsectVI". The film had a test screening in Seattle on 17 December 1983. Rosen had difficulty in finding distributors for the film, and it entered a limited release in the U.S. on 9 January 1985. Janet Maslin, in her 1985 "New York Times" review of the U.S. release, praised the visual style: "Martin Rosen treats his "Plague Dogs" almost as though it were live action. He varies the scenery and the camera angles imaginatively [...] Mr. Rosen's direction is quite ingenious, much more so than Mr.