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Four friends
head out in the Tasmanian wilderness in
search of proof that the Tasmanian Tiger still exists.
The locals don't seem very happy to have them around
and aren't very co-operative but when one of the
friends disappears into the jungle, the three friends
begin to wonder just how unfriendly these locals are.
Dying Breed can be described as the Australian version
of the Norwegian backwoods slasher flick "Rovdyr"
(aka Manhunt). It's just as poorly scripted with
flat characters, minimum dialogue and a very generic
story. How many redneck hillbilly horror movies do
we really have to sit through? And isn't this trend
dead all ready anyway? Anyway, the only major
difference here is that the characters in the movie
are looking for a supposedly extinct animal (an
animal that is horribly CGI'd in this film). Now,
this part of the story really intrigues me. An
extinct animal that supposedly died in the 1930's
that people have made reports of sightings on several
times since the alleged date of extinction - now
that is an interesting story. Also, I find Tasmania
to be the most interesting part of Australia since
it's such an unexplored island with only 500,000
inhabitants in total.
Yes, Dying Breed would've been a great feature for
National Geographic had it not been fictional and
had it not had the killbillies in it. In fact, if
they were so keen on making a horror flick, why
didn't they just turn it into a creature feature
and have the Tasmanian tigers kill the cast of four?
Dying Breed ended up being a massive flop in its
native country and didn't do much better as part of
the After Dark Horror Fest earlier this year and
I am not surprised. This movie looked so cheap. It
had twice the budget that Rovdyr had and still it
looked so much cheaper. I'm sure that those quick
CGI shots of the tigers weren't THAT expensive and
I doubt that the few gore effects used in the movie
cost a lot either.
I'll give director and writer Jody Dwyer some credit
though because the directing is just as uneven as
the script. There were times when I was wondering
whether or not Jody was completely sober during the
shoot because some angles just didn't make any sense
at all. I'm sure he was though, he probably just
didn't have a clue as to what he was doing behind
the camera. The movie looked and felt like it was
shot in the late 80's - no, not in the good homage
kind of way - just in how cheesy it felt. Movies like
Dying Breed are not supposed to get made and I'm
pretty sure that this will put an end to Australian
horror movies for a while now. Certainly no Wolf Creek
here people - move it along.
A severed leg, a gory body, a head caught in a bear
trap - nothing brilliant.
Didn't even notice that there was one.
Dying Breed is an uneven crazy redneck horror flick
which screams direct-to-video for me. I have no idea
how this got released in cinemas in both Australia
and America. I certainly wasn't very impressed by it.
If you enjoyed Rovdyr you may want to give this a
spin though as they have many similarities.
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