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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

"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.

I gave this one a 5 because I've seen better & I've seen worse.The basic premise: Two couples embark on an adventure in backwater country in search of the elusive legendary Tasmanian tiger. The instigator of this mission is Nina, who is trying to validate the research of her sister - who died mysteriously on this very quest. Along for the ride are her boyfriend Matt, his impetuous friend Jack, and Jack's girlfriend Rebecca.From the moment the foursome meet the locals, we're introduced to the same characteristics and vibe of hillbilly, isolated & 'off' people. It is clear early on that things aren't right with this secretive sect of society, and there are 'traditions' that not everyone wants to continue.There are flashbacks and foreshadowing to help build to the reveals at the end. The storyline is simple, but basically the same as many previous horror porn offerings. Although this movie is definitely more tame than most - with only technically a minimum of killing and blood, it definitely follows the trend.Jack is your typical obnoxious a-hole, Matt is the peacemaker, Nina is the troubled soul, and Rebecca is there for sexual titillation. Jack makes a Deliverance joke summarizing the characterization of the locals, and early on there is evidence of their capability to kill and do whatever is necessary for the good of the whole.I think this film took the easy way out, resorting to stereotypes and piecemeal reveals. It is not a bad movie, and the actors are definitely watchable, but could have been better.

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.

Just saw Jody Dwyer's Dying Breed. What an excellent Australian Horror flick it is! It could well be one of my favourite Australian Films of the year.Four young cryptozoologists go to check out Western Tasmania in search of ye ol' Tasmanian Tiger. Little do they know they are stumbling upon the ancestors of Alexander Pearce, the famous Australian ex-convict, bush ranger and sometime cannibal known as the 'Pieman'. Suffice to say fine dining is loosed on the Pieman River as a group of Deliverance style in bred Tassie freaks hunt down our hapless Tiger hunters. Dying Breed is well cast with Leigh Whannell (Saw) giving us a great version of the metro-sexual out of his league in the wilds of Western Tasmania and Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek) as a roustabout larrikin hunter. Whannel is an excellent leading man and should branch out from horror and do other serious work. The two girls Sally MacDonald and Melanie Vallejo are good too. Especially the later, when she is strung up and dismembered Cannibal Holocaust style out the back of the Pieman's shed. I'm sure Leigh Whannell must have been showing the director Cannibal Holocaust, as this scene certainly bears the imprint of that classic film and the Dying Breed scene is very well done in its brutality. The film has various very effective set pieces in a cave, at night in the bush, out the back of the killer's shed, on a bridge at dawn, etc. All shot effectively and scored very nicely. The ominous Tasmanian landscape evokes a darkness akin to what DH Lawrence said about the great primordial emptiness of the Australian bush. The film should travel well as the Aussie accents aren't too harsh, and one is a Irish accent. The family of inbred freaks are memorable and varied in their motivations and actions.Dying Breed is a great edgy genre piece that is one of the first to appear in the new wave of horror cannibal films, so its ahead of the game world wide, also. I would have to rate it right up there with Rogue from last year and Acolytes, Horseman and Rats and Cats.Why did they not enter it in MUFF? It would have won some awards! Check out the posters. I like the stylish one, while the second one with a gory pie will entice the teen market.Stylish new Ozploitation is on display, that gives hope to the future of the Australian Film Industry!