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Title: Wes Craven Presents The Breed (2007) |
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Review of Wes Craven Presents The Breed
- A group of friends (Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, Hill Harper and Oliver Hudson) fly away to a deserted island for the weekend, an island once controlled by a special canine research unit. They soon realize that this beautiful getaway will become their biggest nightmare. Inspired by the horror classics, Cujo and The Birds. The Breed takes you into the jaws of a flesh eating pack of wild dogs, genetically engineered to hunt and kill. Outnumbered and trapped they struggle to outsmart and outrun this terrifying species.
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- Wes Craven served as executive producer on this direct-to-video chiller about a group of friends who discover that the remote island they've chosen as a vacation spot is home to a wild pack of attack dogs. After dispatching a sailboater and his bikini-clad girlfriend, the canines (which look more cuddly than ferocious) pick off the interloping friends with all-too-human cunning; the survivors have just enough time to discover that the mutts are the product of military genetic experiments to create unstoppable attack dogs. Director Nick Mastrandrea (a longtime production associate of both Craven and George Romero) lends a professional look to his debut feature, and gets decent performances from his cast (which includes Lost's Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, and Oliver Hudson), but the script is tired almost from page one, and the resulting action and gore do little to help this indie picture stand out from the rest of the horror crowd. Dog lovers with soft hearts should be forewarned that the CGI stand-ins for the animal actors endure some gruesome abuse in the course of the picture. –-Paul Gaita
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Comments for Wes Craven Presents The Breed
- Posted on 2008-07-05
More fun than Cujo
The island setting for this flick makes for a perfect
setting for this movie. It jumps right into a terrorfest.
The suspense keeps coming, and all those intelligent,
mean, calculating dogs are a formula for fear. And don't
expect a happy ending for this bunch. I think's this
movie has got some bang for the buck. One must remember
that not every movie has to cost $200 million dollars
to be worthwhile.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2008-06-15
One star is far too much
I have a collection of about l000 movies on dvd. There are excellent movies among them, others are average and still others are poor and boring. "Breed" is just bad, bad, bad... Dogs (more cute than frightening) play with shouting and screaming "acors", following a "story", which never gets exciting. It takes courage, to watch this movie: not because of the horror, but because of its below zero qualities and boring stupidity. I have a collection of about 1000 movies. "Breed" won't make it into my collection. Watching it was a complete waste of time.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-05-19
Breeding Ground
~ Five teenagers take a vacation on a remote island where brothers, Matt and John, have inherited a cabin. Matt's girlfriend Nicki, Sarah and Noah also accompany them. Before they can get settled in, Sara (Michelle Rodriguez) is bitten by a vicious stray dog. The brothers are immediately prompted by memories of a facility for training dogs somewhere on other side of the island. Fearing the worst - rabies - they head for their sea plane, but the dogs have already set it adrift. In small packs they wait in the surrounding hillside, watching, waiting to attack ... the five friends find themselves fighting a battle for survival against these genetically redesigned and intelligent canine killers ~ From the director of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Scream', 'The Breed' is one of the better films produced by Wes Craven. It is a simple slasher-style flick, well written and directed, with a good cast and a nice little twist at the end. There are plenty of tense moments here also. Apparently they used real dogs for this film, not computer generated hounds.
Think Scream~ meets~Cujo~meets~Wilderness.
Overall a pretty scary film.
Matt Lee-Williams
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-05-11
creepy!
this is about wild dogs that attack and kill people and i have never seen it yet but just read about it and it sounds good!
Score: 5 - Posted on 2008-05-02
Wow
This movie is not at all what I was expecting.
I bought it because it stars Michelle Rodriguez, one of my favorite actresses. I didn't expect much of it, but when it ended, I was still pretty irritated. Reason being, the 'action' wasn't over, and the screen faded to black as the credits appeared.
It is very likely that I will sell this movie in the near future as I doubt I'll view it again . . .
Score: 2