Dying Breed

2008

Horror / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 6390 6.4K

Plot summary

An extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger. A long-forgotten legend, “The Pieman” aka Alexander Pearce, who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Both had a desperate need to survive; both could have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Four hikers venture deep into isolated territory to find one of these legends, but which one will they come upon first?


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tmccull52 4 / 10

Not bad, but...

"Dying Breed" was pretty much everything that the promo and trailer suggested that it would be. Although it was predictable, as most horror movies of this type are these days, the actors did a decent job and the pacing of the film was such that it managed to keep me interested. The complaint that I have isn't specifically with this film, rather it's with the trend in horror movies over the past few years.

Does every single person, in every single one of these movies have to die? How many times do we really need to see a man sit helplessly by while his wife, girlfriend, or daughter is raped, brutalized, or even cannibalized before his eyes? Do we really need it pounded into our brains over and over and over that darkness and evil reign supreme, and are utterly inescapable? I understand that people go to see horror movies for the novelty and fun of being frightened, but now, horror movies are unendingly bleak and utterly devoid of any hope for any of the protagonists in them. Who is there to root for when every character in the movie is doomed to die no matter what? I'm a horror movie geek, and I've been one since I was a little kid. Were I to pick a horror movie that I thought to be a success by most standards, I'd have to go with perhaps "Alien", or "Jaws". Both films were considered frightening in their day, both films featured plenty of guts and gore, and holy moley, a few folks even managed to survive their ordeals. I did enjoy "The Blair Witch Project" and other movies similar to it, but I'm finding myself bored by movies like "Dying Breed", rather then genuinely enjoying them.

Reviewed by robertemerald 6 / 10

Plot hole threatens to drown an otherwise good horror

There is a character in this movie whom is a loud narcissist. I hated him from the onset and couldn't wait for him to die. I hated even more the fact that he was a glaring plot hole in an otherwise superb horror story. The lead heroine is trying to retrace her sister's footsteps years earlier. The sister drowned. She wants to find proof of a tiger. Both issues make her highly sensitive. That her boyfriend would recommend this drongo mate to escort them into the wilds makes no sense at all. Normal people simply wouldn't do that. The fact that the drongo has an ute and a boat is not a good enough excuse for this lack of sensitivity on the part of the boyfriend. Hiring a ute and a boat is not an insurmountable problem. It gets worse. The drongo is totally insensitive to the locals. In many ways, the drongo starts all the trouble. Honestly, if it weren't for this character, I'd have given Dying Breed a solid 8 or 9. There are some good ideas. The terror is not unlike Wolf Creek. Plenty of surprises. The final scenes after the drongo gets it are superb. Anyway, that's my take. I'll press the spoiler button and hope others agree with me.

Reviewed by lost-in-limbo 6 / 10

The bloodline stays close… real close.

The little hype surrounding this Australian feature is probably better left unnoticed, as while I found it solid it doesn't pull any out punches we haven't already gone through before to leave an impressive imprint. Hey it reminded me of an other Australian horror film 'Wolf Creek (2005)' and maybe 'The Hills Have Eyes (2006)' remake, but this time the escalating terror is found in the beautiful forests of Tasmania as a group of young adults head out searching for the supposedly instinct Tasmanian tiger, but actually earth up something more horrifying about the area's local history.

For me this film really came out of nowhere, as the striking poster artwork (featuring a half eaten pie with an eyeball and finger within it) caught my attention and some rave reviews can feed your appetite. Sadly though, I was only one of four who were at the cinema to see it. I probably could've gone without seeing it and waited for it to hit DVD, but there's nothing quite like watching a horror film on the big screen.

What this story sets off to be is a little unsure, but about midway through you know where it's heading (Psycho territory with cannibalistic currents). I might sound like a broken record, but really this isn't nothing new compared to much modern horror focusing on the visual torture and torment of its victims. While it might not be as abundant, it still lingers and has a really nasty side. It has explicitly raw moments with pockets of vicious intensity, but it was not the violence that unnerved but the ominously remote woodland backdrop with constant eerie imagery. The scenery is gorgeously lush, but lurking beneath the gracefully hypnotic setting is the true grotesque horror that's hidden very well. The nocturnal, but surprisingly also the day sequences can get under your skin. The cinematography is professionally catered for with it drawing upon the atmosphere and setting. Editing is brisk, but well infused.

As for the story it uses actual facts and spins them in to total fiction. The main base of the story centres on the history of the extinct Tasmanian tiger, which some still believe exists and combining that legend of the cannibalistic Irish convict Alexander Pearce that managed to escape from the penal colony and headed for the wilderness to only be hanged in 1824. Then we hit modern times with a group of four after the exclusive photograph of the Tiger, but one of girls lost her sister within the same area they're visiting in a supposed drowning many years earlier. Now cue those articles of missing backpackers. But when they meet the creepy locals, the inbred jokes flow. Still we're flooded with flashbacks, piled on to flashbacks. Even if the set-up is clichéd and obviously formulaic, these back stories do give it a little more background and depth, and lessens the idea of turning in to something meaningless. The script has its questionable actions, but mainly lets it go about things.

The pacing is rather leisured, and I can see many complaining about the slowness of the opening half (think of the criticism that 'Wolf Creek' copped). But I thought it was milked out accordingly and with a purpose, to hit you hard when it finally changed direction. Featuring heavily is that it centres on mood, visuals and sounds than that of tearing and ballistic actions. Even when it does break out from it's causal handling, it still doesn't burst out and only adds tension with jolts in scattered slabs and formulated rushes. When it comes to the end, I found it to be stumbling there and results not entirely satisfying. But it still keeps that glum feel throughout.

Jody Dwyer's assured direction is slick and stylish. Maybe too so, but it's a brash display as his not afraid to bare gore and flesh… usually the latter in recent times sees little daylight in the mainstream horror releases. Even animal lovers should be aware. The performances are workmanlike, but no real empathic edge was created. Well not for me. One thing though it never seemed like they were ever aware in what type of situation they were or could be in, but when it unfolded it didn't entirely changed the perception. Leigh Whannel, Nathan Phillips, Mirrah Foulkes and Melanie Vallejo play the unlucky party.

A basic, but durably crafted genre effort.

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