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• Directors C

  
  [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Imagine if you would, the typical victims of the antagonist in survival horror movies. These are adolescent teenagers with masssively differing characteristics. You get a few sex obsessed male idiots, some… More
  [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Imagine if you would, the typical victims of the antagonist in survival horror movies. These are adolescent teenagers with masssively differing characteristics. You get a few sex obsessed male idiots, some attractive and open minded women, and the unbelievably good looking nerd. However by a great length I don't think i've ever seen a movie which celebrates said incredibly annoying character arcs more, than the Wes Craven presents flick The Breed. Horror films are supposed to make you invest in fragile, terrfied characters so that they therein win over your sympathy as you hope that they survive whatever it is they're being put through. But watching The Breed, most of the time, I wanted the protaganists to get mauled to death by a rabid pack of genetically modified dogs. If you can suffer the crassly irritating characters this is nevertheless a surprisingly thrilling, wonderfully amusing, and well executed killer dog movie. The creativeness of such a genre is low, but still those are hard to pull off, even if it doesn't subvert the sub genre with intellect I watched The Breed with a straight face, I was kept interested while it lasted. The best thing you can say about the film is that it's a great deal better than some of the other B movies churned out in the last decade. I think the film has safe residence on late night television, to it's benefit it is enormously greater than the average Syfy channel monster flick. So much that this is among the "Citizen Kane" of good, bad movies. It ticks an acceptable amount of the nature survival horror flick boxes and has a few cheap jump shocks that are played out very effectively. This is Nicholas Mastandrea's directing debut. He's had a prestigious career of assistant directing some great films, but with taking overall control, he's made a good effort that knows how bad it is, but overall is great at being deliberately bad. That's what I wanted from watching it, and it's what I was given. Not everyone will like it, I can't really recommend it to someone wanting a masterfully nightmarish cinematic panic attack but if you appreciate the B movie conventions of old school horror immensely you will discover everything that I found in it and are likely to enjoy The Breed as much as I did.

• Jeff "

  
  Using Old School horror elements as we've seen in previous killer animal films such as Cujo and Man's Best Friend, The Breed is a decent B movie. The film doesn't really have a good cast, but they do their best considering that the script is so cliché. The ideas… More
  Using Old School horror elements as we've seen in previous killer animal films such as Cujo and Man's Best Friend, The Breed is a decent B movie. The film doesn't really have a good cast, but they do their best considering that the script is so cliché. The ideas expressed in this film have been done before, done better too. The Breed is not that horrifying, but it does manage a few jolts. The concept of this film isn't anything great, but it works well enough to entertain you. The Breed is yet another nature gone awry film, and it doesn't try to shy away from that point whatsoever. The film is entertaining, but it lacks any real effective terror that has made horror films of the same style so chilling. Fact is, is that the films formula works, but not well enough to truly be memorable. The film is predictable, and you know right from the start how this one will end. As far as the film is concerned, the film works well enough considering its small budget, and not so good cast. At least you don't end caring for them, because after all they lack any real acting talent. In the end, this is a decent film with a pretty entertaining story, despite the fact that it borrows from many other films of this caliber. I liked it enough considering that the plot or acting isn't that great in the first place. The Breed is a good enough B movie, but nothing ever good.

• J P

  
  The dogs were fantastic; it was really impressive. I love how they were all German Shepherds though haha. Like every kind of German Shepherd- white, black, long haired, short haired, sable, etc. haha. Awesome. The acting and overall plot was dull and cliched (seen it all before). The… More
  The dogs were fantastic; it was really impressive. I love how they were all German Shepherds though haha. Like every kind of German Shepherd- white, black, long haired, short haired, sable, etc. haha. Awesome. The acting and overall plot was dull and cliched (seen it all before). The dogs were amazing though. That's pretty much the only thing I liked about this film. Good doggies...they were so cuteee!

• Ken S

  
  Great start and kind of a lack luster ending. It does however contain one of my greatest pet peeves in film which is the injury that miraculously disappears when the script need it too.

• Conner R

  
  There's no doubt about it, this is one weird plot. It's almost like the unofficial sequel to Cujo, there's just more dogs and more carnage. It's not bad enough to laugh at, but there is something strangely entertaining about it. Maybe it's the fact that dogs… More
  There's no doubt about it, this is one weird plot. It's almost like the unofficial sequel to Cujo, there's just more dogs and more carnage. It's not bad enough to laugh at, but there is something strangely entertaining about it. Maybe it's the fact that dogs tearing people to shreds and then getting shot with a bow and arrow isn't something you see everyday. I just want to meet the person who actually wrote this to see what was going on inside his head. The rap song for the movie was the most priceless aspect, it played on all the killing.

• Brian D

  
  Hmmmm not sure about this one. Not bad acting bot no scares.

• Jani H

  
  Survival horror against the most vicious creatures in the world... genetically designed killer dogs! Uninteresting characters and bad acting by the humans. The one extra star is given only because of the dogs. They seem to have fun and they outact all of the annoying, stupid… More
  Survival horror against the most vicious creatures in the world... genetically designed killer dogs! Uninteresting characters and bad acting by the humans. The one extra star is given only because of the dogs. They seem to have fun and they outact all of the annoying, stupid people...

• Film C

  
  wow this film actually supprised me its better then what you would think its clever and scary jump out bits and some goore as well and the ending is a bit predictable but differnatly worth a watch!

• Drew S

  
  Sweet Christ, this is a fucking dull movie. Michelle Rodriguez could not act her way across the street, though watching her get shot in the leg with a stray arrow aimed for her canine assailant is one of the funniest film moments I've had in months. Honestly, the rest of it is… More
  Sweet Christ, this is a fucking dull movie. Michelle Rodriguez could not act her way across the street, though watching her get shot in the leg with a stray arrow aimed for her canine assailant is one of the funniest film moments I've had in months. Honestly, the rest of it is just hideously trite dialogue slapped together by some guy who heard in screenwriting class that he had to develop characters and thought shittily-implemented discussions about sibling love would do the trick. All of the moronic dog violence is in the last fifteen minutes of the movie, except for a few scattered scenes to punctuate the boredom here and there. Ugh, why am I talking about this movie? And of COURSE the black guy dies first.

• Dean !

  
  A pretty good horror/thriller as some friends get trapped on a remote island with a pack of wild rabid type dogs after them. Not scary or gory but pretty good overall. If you want more blood and guts try the very bloody Wilderness, where I think they got the idea for this from!

• Luke B

  
  Acceptable B-Movie farce. Dogs go mad, not werewolves but dogs. Not scary sometimes unintentionally hilarious and events so predictable it's irritating the characters didn't see them coming. Okay for 80 minutes of stupidity.l The characters are at least given some emotion… More
  Acceptable B-Movie farce. Dogs go mad, not werewolves but dogs. Not scary sometimes unintentionally hilarious and events so predictable it's irritating the characters didn't see them coming. Okay for 80 minutes of stupidity.l The characters are at least given some emotion and background, but after people start dying they get over it incredibly quickly. Fickle bastards.

• Jacob P

  
  Not Wes Craven's best work...but still a very good flick.

• Lee K

  
  Not bad was a little bit better then i thought it would, having picked this off the shelve when absolutly everything was rented out. Not bad story line but so-so in the acting dept.

• Laurence C

  
  Proudly claiming to have Wes Craven on their team (yet only as an executive producer), this incredibly stupid horror movie is still miles away from featuring a scratch of the style OR humour found in even Craven's lamest offerings. On his very first opportunity to give us the… More
  Proudly claiming to have Wes Craven on their team (yet only as an executive producer), this incredibly stupid horror movie is still miles away from featuring a scratch of the style OR humour found in even Craven's lamest offerings. On his very first opportunity to give us the chills, director Nick Mastandrea royally screws everything up; this grating habit is repeated over and over again up to a catastrophic finale. The killer dogs, would-be blood-chilling killing machines, come off as nothing more than a ridiculous excuse to string together idiotic chases, stunts and kills. As for the story that's told through the cardboard cut-out characters, one has to be supremely goofy to draw zero interest in every line of dialogue, which is unsurprisingly very poorly written, by the way. The cast, as photogenic as they may be, give their absolute minimum, probably not to worsen the whole deal. So what we have here is an almost complete turkey-- okay, a certain technical skill was obviously needed to shoot so many action scenes with real dogs-- but one thing is certain : we couldn't give less of a fuck if the director's intention was either to scare us, to make an 'hommage' to the 80's bestial slasher or just collect his paycheck. Dogshit.

• Chris M

  
  Same old story, same old ending. Nothing new here.

• Barry L

  
  Dissapointing film Im afraid......watchable but dissapointing.

• Sarah P

  
  Only watched first 10 minutes and THAT was a mistake

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