Straw Dogs (1971 film) to enjoy the act of violation". The BBFC wrote that: "Home Alone" production designer John Muto identified that film as a "kids version of "Straw Dogs"". Director Jacques Audiard cited "Straw Dogs" as the basis for his 2015 film "Dheepan". Straw Dogs (1971 film) Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is lightly based upon Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, "The Siege of Trencher's Farm". The film's title derives from a discussion in the "Tao Te Ching" that likens people
Our Lady of the Assassins (novel) Our Lady of the Assassins (novel) Our Lady of the Assassins (Spanish title: "La virgen de los sicarios") is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo about an author in his fifties who returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence to find himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare. The novel was later adapted into a film that received different international recognitions like the Aware of the Italian Senate, the Venice Film Festival (2000) as the best Latin American film and the La Habana International Festival "Nuevo