Screenwriter David Sumner travels with his wife Amy in his Jaguar to her homeland Blackwater, in the Mississippi. Amy's father has passed away and David intends to write his screenplay about Stalingrad in the house. David hires the contractor Charlie and his team to repair the roof of the Barn. Amy was the sweetheart of Charlie when she lived there and neither him nor his crew show respect to her. Charlie invites David to hunt deers with his group and him but they leave David alone in the woods and rape Amy. She does not tell to David what happened but when the drunken coach Tom Heddon calls Charlie and his friends to hunt down the slow Jeremy Niles that likes his daughter, David decides to protect not only Jeremy, but also Amy and his honor. 稻草狗失掉的第一根稻草压垮垂死的骆驼。黑水镇上无好人。“刍狗”与“bitch”——2011版《稻草狗》有感。乌合之众。对付坏人：要有高智商，也要有好体魄。入乡被逼随俗。傻逼的两口子。别动稻草狗的包子。说女主贱实属偏见。姑娘, 你是条汉子!。 大卫（詹姆斯·麦斯登 James Marsden 饰）是一位小有名气的剧作家，为了能有更好的创作环境，大卫携爱妻艾米（凯特·波茨沃斯 Kate Bosworth 饰）回到了风景宜人的南方老家。老家清新的空气和闲散的生活让两个疲惫的城市人感到十分的新奇，而在这靓丽的风景之下，原住民们对这对初来乍到的夫妻却并不能算得上友好。 秉着息事宁人的态度，大卫对来自外界的种种歧视选择了默默忍受，甚至在妻子被一名当地的建筑工人设计强暴之后，他也只是希望能够大事化小小事化了。可是，大卫的一味忍让换来的却是变本加厉的欺负，当一群“野蛮人”试图闯入他家时，曾经懦弱的大卫选择了拿起武器，为了保卫自己最后的家园而战。
