DOG OF GOD REVIEW

Dog Of God

Dog of God Review

Dog of God (2025Film Review from the 24th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Lauris Abele and Raitis Abele, written by Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele, and Ivo Briedis, and starring Armands Bergis, Kristians Karelins, Agate Krista, Einars Repse, Jurgis Spulenieks, and Regnars Vaivars.

Dog of God is a movie that fills a niche that, for all intents and purposes, is more or less dead. And that is not just rotoscoped animation, but rather the art of the animated horror movie, aimed squarely at an adult audience. To the perspective of the average movie-goer, animation is a medium meant to entertain small children, with the occasional bone thrown to adults in the form of pop-culture references or some other tawdry bit of humor. Dog of God is a challenging, mature, and truly gruesome movie that exists in a world of its own.

The medieval world of Dog of God is one of dilapidation and misery; it rains constantly, and villagers place their feet in cow manure to warm themselves. All of their culture comes from two main quadrants, as can be expected: the church, and the tavern, which are at odds with one another. The pastor of the town decries the evils of drinking, and casts a hateful eye to the tavern, and especially the young woman who runs it, and also, secretly treats the ills of the townspeople. Dead animals litter the streets. The people are covered in growths and are haggard and poorly-fed, and the only joy they get is in sexual release and from the alcohol they drink. To these unhappy few, the communion wine of the church or the watered-down beer of the tavern are as good a reprieve as they can hope for in their wretched lives.

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When the pastor’s precious relic is mysteriously stolen, he is driven to the sort of madness only seen in kings bursting at the seams to declare war over some slight. It matters little that the trinket, a tiny piece of golden straw he believes to be from the manger of the baby Jesus, did little to help in anyone’s salvation or happiness. The object of his spite is none other than the young, attractive Neze, whom he believes to be a witch.

The trial is where the movie comes into its own, with the titular Dog of God wandering in, a vagrant filled with obscure knowledge. There will be no spoilers here other than that there is a werewolf in this movie, and that the balance of power in a medieval setting changes on a whim. If you’re familiar with movies featuring witch hunters or even something like Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), this movie will excite and captivate you with its uncompromising exploration of royal desire and pious hypocrisy.

Carnality is perhaps the most persistent theme of the Abele brothers latest movie, with the priest character’s desperate attempts to ignore and fight against his own repression feeding into Dog of God’s miasma of filth and bodily decay. A rotting dog becomes a recurring motif, visited abruptly throughout the film’s runtime, and the baron, to whom our priest appeals after he horrifically tortures Neze, begging for her to be burnt as a priest. The baron, for his part, cares little for such things, but sees in the young girl the opportunity to help him with his deepest desire, which is simply a cure for his own impotence.

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That is, of course, all just scratching at the surface of Dog of God. When this movie gets a general release, this reviewer will be first in line to see it again, if only to be thrilled and horrified by its morbid fairy-tale sensibility.

Rating: 9/10

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