I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

In the intro, a couple frolicking in a tent at nights hears a noise. So they do what movie characters always do, stop doing what they're doing and go outside and find out what the noise is. When the guy gets back the girl is gone. Later he finds her, or rather half of her. He then wakes up in a cave, shackled and bound next to knives and body parts. He frees himself but something catches him again.We then meet a bunch of college kids on a class trip in Ireland. The teacher and her boyfriend are also there. When they get to a house they are warned repeatedly by the strange locals to not wander in the woods but stay on the path. These kids aren't particularly likable, there's the horror movie buff who bullies the nice girl constantly, a couple who can't keep their hands off each other, and some other girl. Of course they do wander off course and find some ruins where the creature lives. Meanwhile the creature starts killing them one buy one in some very gory ways, especially if you see the extended scenes in the bonus features.The innocent girl also ends up in the ruin/cave and finds out what the creature/creatures are all about.You can definitely tell that something went very wrong in the production of Evil Breed. Acting by the kids is atrocious. The movie is rather short and the filmmakers had a hard time telling the story right, that is if the script was any good to begin with. In the comments on IMDb, the director apologizes for the resulting mess saying that he didn't have a whole lot of control over the project. Despite the problems, the resulting product is somewhat likable. There's plenty of very good gore, some nudity, and you do get a sense of what this movie could have been had things gone well.

Viel says that he was hired to do the goriest slasher film ever, and he comes pretty close. The nude scenes are just a bonus (if you like silicone...if you know what I mean and I think that you do.) This is a lot better film than anything the SciFi channel has produced recently, though they would have been forced to soft-focus the nudity and censor the language. (On the other hand, I haven't seen any significant censoring of violence in SciFi's presentations, so the gore would probably get through in one piece.) The pacing is a bit unusual for a modern slasher film, too. Typically-paced beginning...then everybody gets killed at about 15-second intervals. I'm serious. With multiple murderers, you don't have to go through these boring set-ups where the bad guy gets from one spot to another to set up some elaborate trap. In fact, at one point, a bad-guy drags a victim to the torture table, straps him down, and then goes back for another. Returning with a second victim after the first has managed to release himself, the bad-guy doesn't even seem to notice that the first victim is now gone. He just straps the second (or is it third or fourth?) victim down in the same place and gets busy.The deleted scenes on the DVD are also a suggestion of how much better and over-the-top the movie would have been if the producers had kept their noses out of things.Don't buy this, but do give some thought to renting it.And it IS true that porn stars can't act.

"Samhain" is a slightly flawed, but decent film.**SPOILERS**On a field-trip to Ireland, Karen Douglas, (Bobbie Phillips) and classmates Shae, (Brandi-Anne Milbradt) Steve, (Phil Price) Jim, (Neil Napier) Tara, (Heidi Hawkins) Barbara, (Gillian Leigh) and her boyfriend Paul, (Howard Rosenstein) arrive at a small house in the countryside and begin a study on the surrounding druid rituals and structures. As their spend more and more time among the ruins and each other, they start splintering off into little relationships that form. As they start mysteriously disappearing in the woods surrounding the house, they band together and realize that a local mystery about a murderous family deep in the woods is true. The survivors band together to defeat the murderous family.The Good News: It's actually not that bad. The gore here is enough to satisfy. There's a knife in the mouth that exists all the way out the neck, an axe in the face, and two very brutal and inventive ones. They alone are the reason why this is a good movie, and are certainly on the creative and inventive scale of things. One character has their intestines ripped out from behind and strangled with them for an extended amount of time. The other one is a character has their chest sliced open and an implant removed. It should be easy to figure out what happens next, and I'll leave it at that. While not being as graphic as they could, it's good enough to give an idea of what they are. The setting is perfectly captured and is actually suspenseful at times. The first attack in the prologue is the best example. It's just dark enough so that it's hard to comprehend what is out there, but the off-screen twig snaps and bush rustling are enough to convince us that something is out there. It's actually pretty suspenseful throughout the rest as well. The escape at the end is pretty nerve-wracking, as is an assault on the house in the middle of the film. It works well with the extreme blood and gore. The last half hour of the film is very fast paced and more than makes up for most of the films' shortcomings. The action is so fast and furious that it just simply flies by and moves at a fast pace. It's certainly a great part of the movie as it gains momentum for the finale. The film is also notable for one other factor: the bevy of porn stars in it. The fact that they all take their clothes off is certainly not a bad thing. Combined all this together with a fairly creative storyline and it's not as bad as previously thought.The Bad News: I hate bringing in a film's background into a review, but this has to be brought up here. As good as it is, there is still the feeling that it was being held back. As gory as it already is, it should be gorier. As much nudity it shows, it should show more. As much exposition as there is, there should be more. It feels and looks like it's been cut up before it's been presented, which reading the rumors is a pretty accurate account at times. Looking at the film as is, though, this is the only main problem with the film. A couple of other scenes did nag at me, though. A complete scene-for-scene re-shoot of a famous sequence from a popular horror film is a big distraction, especially at how close the two scenes are to each other. It's not a major complaint, but it is one. It's not as bad as it could've been.The Final Verdict: Yes, the film is cut up beyond what it should've been, and there's a couple other small things here and there that could've changed, but it's still not as bad a film that it has received. Give this version a chance, it's not that bad, but don't see the other version first.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and a short sex scene

Tourists head to Ireland for a school trip to learn about Druids. What they encounter is a horrific tale of cannibalistic killers.If I had to sum up Evil Breed, it would be a low grade gore fest. The film mixes Dead Alive, Evil Dead, Wrong Turn all in one. It's just too bad that the film has so many inconsistencies to keep track of that it loses any "fun" one would have watching it. The film has lots of random "horror" nudity...although the film also stars four porn stars, yup four, so there could have been plenty more. Breed also showcases a good amount of gore. Evil Breed has a horrible start, with laughable dialogue and horrible acting. That's a given in a straight to video horror film, but this takes the cake. I can't really figure out who the main character is, since the one female who "lives" at the end is not really in the movie all that much. Speaking of the ending, that has to be one of the most random and bogus ending in the history of film. It has no purpose with the rest of the film and totally changes one's view of the film.You have to see this film to believe it, since there are some pretty great death scenes. There are two death scenes that come into my mind, one in which the inbred killer rips the intestines out of a naked woman through her chest....yea her chest, don't ask me. The other id when the guy gets his intestines, yet again, ripped out through his asshole. Does that kill the guy? No, the killer continues to strangle the guy with his own intestines. These scenes remind me so much of Dead-Alive, with the right amount of humour in each. I also got the sense of Evil Dead, with the pointless mentions of horror films and Sam Raimi. Along with Halloween, when the female character is in a closet screaming for her life with the killer trying desperately;y to get in.Although, the gore and nudity are not enough for the poor audio and visual quality of the film. When the teacher wakes up from her bed and walks down the stairs, her footsteps are so loud and hard that it seems like she was wearing boots. Distracting indeed. As well as the continuity in the film, with only one inbred killer? As well as which character dies at which moment. I couldn't tell if the breast implant chick was Jenny or Gary's sister/cousin...I can't remember. As well as the random naked chick with a dead baby hanging out of her body, still attached with the umbilical cord.The horrible editing is distracting as well, the opening credits are too fast and disorienting. It did have a bad start and got better, but the ending just brings the film back down to a horrible level. If maybe there were better production values and more faith put into this film, then it wouldn't have been horribly butchered to death. Stay away from this film, unless you are happy with the below budget horrible bad film with decent gore.