A tale with a gruesome twist, Dog Food keeps you guessing throughout about who is Butchering who.
The first scraps of curiosity are thrown in when our protagonist/anti-hero butcher receives the first of many abusive letters in the post. This mystery escalates as he starts getting stalked by a young man and invited to dinner by a young woman, though the tone is contrastingly playful until the inciting incident - when he loses his dog.
When he is invited to dinner and the stalkerish young man is there, the audience suppose they've killed his dog, its only a matter of time; This is dramatic irony milked to its full potential in creating tension for the audience, climaxing at the point when he starts eating a dog's tail.
The ending that is dog is still alive is confusing - we can only suppose the tail came from some other dog they killed, but chilling all the same. Particularly after the flashback of him murdering the young man and woman then feeding what we can only assume are the remains to his fully alive dog. A surprising story that plays on audience expectations, not too dissimilar from Roald Dahl's Lamb to the Slaughter.
James Bond - Skyfall
This was a christmas eve must see on ITV. This time it shows Bond's human side, you can invest emotionally whilst not detracting from all the surprise explosions and highly confidential briefings in the National Gallery.
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