This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Really Surprised!

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

To quickly summarize this movie, you take "Wrong Turn" and put it together with "The Hills Have Eyes", and then you end up with "Dying Breed". Just change the scenery to the Tasmanian outdoors, and voilà, there you go. Although "Dying Breed" is nowhere near as interesting as either of the other movies."Dying Breed" is basically about a group of people stuck in the deep woods, and something is out there stalking them. The movie sort of builds up some fairly good moments, but they are always toppled by an anti-climatic result. Toss in a supposedly Tasmanian tiger in the equation, and hope it would work. But it didn't, at least not for me...And had the movie been based on something fresh, it might actually have been interesting, but the story and plot was handpicked right out of movies like "Wrong Turn", "The Hills Have Eyes" and such similar movies.Now as for the cast, well they were actually well cast and they did good jobs with their roles. I especially liked the acting of Leigh Whannell towards the end, when he was in the chair. That was really cool. Although what happened following that scene was so predictable, that you could smell it a mile away.There was no frights in this movie, which was a total disappointment. There were moments when there could have been some suspense, but the movie failed to deliver on that part. As for the psychological aspect of the movie, well that was brilliant. Being trapped in the woods, scared, something stalking you, and weird hillbillies nearby, well that actually did work out well enough for the movie. Although, it has all be used before."Dying Breed" was somewhat of a disappointing experience. I had expected more from this, as it is a part of the "After Dark Horrorfest" movies. But now I've seen it, and will chalk it up as a Tasmanian remake of "Wrong Turn" and "The Hills Have Eyes", nothing more... I don't recommend this movie to be a top priority to watch if you are into horror movies or psychologically freaky movies, this is slow-moving and takes forever to get nothing told. There are far better and far scarier movies out there in the woods...

The desire to photograph the Tasmanian tiger, due to it's significance as having not been recorded as proof of it's existence, has sent many into the wilderness of Tasmania hoping to capture it on film or other media as a means for a substantial payday. The Tasmanian wilderness is known for holding over 250 missing persons, tourists hoping to find the tiger, no sign of them remaining. Nina(Mirrah Foulkes)hopes to finish what her deceased sister started, to be successful in discovering the Tasmanian tiger. Something terrible happened to Nina's sister, she was used by backwoods cannibals living in the wilderness of Tasmania as a breeder, later found by the local authorities dead, having drowned after leaping from a mountainous cliff once cornered by her pursuers. Along with her boyfriend Matt(Leigh Whannell), his pal Jack(Nathan Phillips)and Jack's girlfriend Rebecca(Melanie Vallejo), Nina will head for Tasmania, and into the wilderness, on a trek to find the tiger..ill prepared for what they will find instead. Idyllic Victoria, Australia is quite a feast for the eyes in this Deliverance/Wrong Turn variation with our four protagonists being trapped within the wilderness, among them descendants of a famous cannibal named Alexander Pierce who continue the tradition. Fans of this genre will rejoice as "Dying Breed" follows a bleak course to a grim conclusion. It contains sickening flesheating as meat is pulled from bodies(..such as the shoulder) by sharp teeth and body parts are found throughout the killer's lair. Bear traps do serious damage to one victim and we see the grisly remains of another body that had been fed from. I thought the highlight featured a crossbow's arrow pinning a victim's mouth to a tree! While the movie does take a while to get going(..this is to build the dread, I felt, and once the violence/action starts, the movie doesn't let up), I thought "Dying Breed", while unoriginal and overly familiar, kicks in high gear, though we obviously question why in the world these people wound up in their current situation, how characters find themselves fighting for survival far from home or civilization. Billie Brown steps into the John Jarratt(Wolf Creek)part, as Harvey, a seemingly likable Pearce villager whose role in the ongoing terror becomes well established. Characters trying to survive in the wilderness haven of menacing inbred cannibals, attempting to escape an environment alien to them, is nothing new, but it's a frightening scenario I find myself always gripped by.."Dying Breed", I think, follows the mould rather well.

They did it again. Smug, self righteous "filmmakers" insulting those that refuse to play yes-man to urban elitists.Although this isn't as disgusting as that garbage known as The Mist or the equally despicable From Within (also a Horrorfest III, Crapfest) it's still just as boring with loads of "been there, done that", deja vu moments.It starts off annoying me with a distorted picture, prompting me to turn off the DVD and switch the player from 16x9 to letterbox so that the image would look normal on my widescreen TV. After the first scene it reverts back to normal, forcing me to turn it off again and switch it back. Did the cinematographer lose his anamorphic lens in the woods of Tasmania and have to shoot the rest in standard 1:85 aspect ratio?After that, nothing good or interesting happens for the next fifty or so minutes. The rest is trite, wasting a good premise and photography all the way.It is time to scrap the Horrorfest! After the first eight fairly entertaining set, they degenerated into absolute garbage. Dying Breed, From Within, and Butterfly Effect III: the sequel no one asked for, are all perfect examples. Shape up or ship out, dummies!

"Dying Breed" is a largely derivative and predictable Aussie horror flick that nevertheless benefices from a handful of marvelous elements, like a fascinating historical plot outline (albeit not at all accurate), breathtaking filming locations & scenery and a few unyielding shock sequences. The pivot character in "Dying Breed", even though he only briefly appears during the opening sequence, is Alexander Pearce a.k.a. "The Pieman". He was a cannibalistic murderer of Irish descent who got exiled to Tasmania to pay for the crimes he committed. Back in the early eighteen hundreds, when the whole of Australia was still a British prison colony and Tasmania an island where the heaviest cases were shipped off to, Alexander "Pieman" Pearce was the only convict how managed to escape and flee into the impenetrable Tasmanian forests. Obviously this plot outline isn't entirely accurate, as the real Pieman was in fact the nickname of a completely different prisoner and the real Alexander Pearce died at the gallows in 1824, but hey, it's a horror movie so everything goes. After the introduction of Pearce and the Tasmanian region, the plot resumes in present day Tasmania with the arrival of four twenty-something adventurers. Nina is a zoologist and wishes to continue the research of her sister who died here eight years ago whilst looking for last remaining species of the Tasmanian Tiger. She and her friends quickly discover that her sister didn't just drown, but fell victim to the bewildered and horribly inbred descendants of Alexander Pearce. They have only one goal in their miserable existence and that is to keep the bloodline alive. At the festival where I watched this movie, "Dying Breed" was exaggeratedly promoted like an Aussie interpretation of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes". Perhaps this is a fairly apt comparison, but stating something like that inevitably raises high expectations that "Dying Breed" can't possible fill in. Director Jody Dwyer does a reasonably good job, but he/she (?) yet doesn't succeed in generating an atmosphere of despair and sheer terror. It also takes slightly too long before the suspense and nastiness truly breaks loose. The first half of the film is overly stuffed with typical inbred jokes and stereotypical tourist behavior. There are a handful of downright disgusting sequences, notably a gruesome bear trap death sequence and a few close ups of pick-axes-in-the-head moments, which will undoubtedly appeal to the bloodhounds among us. The nature and wildlife images are dreamy to stare at and the acting performances are surprisingly above average. One of the lead actors is Leigh Whannell who, along with James Wan, created the original concept of "Saw".