So,I know I've been doing a lot of this years After Dark Horrorfest films,which all for the most part have been pretty damn good. Well there actually are a few films from last years version of this series,that for one reason or another I never got around to watching."Dying Breed" being one of them. My bad for taking so long to get around to it,this is a pretty good flick!!
I don't know what it is with Australia and France. You see,based on both of those country's recent horror films are pretty fucked up (especially the French...those fuckers are some seriously fucked up dudes). Australia has kind of been taking a similar path,just not as sadistic as those French fuckers.It seems like since 2005's "Wolf Creek" they have taken the road trip movie where teens get lost on a trip and end up with cannibals in West Virginia,and substitute the Outback for West Virginia.The kicker is....at least for me,unlike a majority of the French sadistic crap,and even the American films they are patterned after,these Australian films are very watchable.
"Dying Breed" is one of these films. The story is that a young Irish girl who with her boyfriend is out to try and finish a project that her sister started eight years before on the island of Tasmania (off the coast of Australia). A project that ended up costing the sister her life. the project is trying to find a supposedly long extinct tiger?? (it actually looks like a frickin dog,but hey I'm not a goddamn zoologist) Anyways they head out to Tasmania to try and find this animal,with the assistance of the boyfriends lifelong friend,played with total prick overload glee by Nathan Phillips who was the male lead in "Wolf Creek" also....anyways he brings his girlfriend and off to go find there tiger/dog they go.
What I like about this film is that yes,its a storyline that's been done a 100 thousand times,but what helps here is the back story that they use for it. Australia was a penal colony for England until 1868,and Tasmania was where the most file criminals were kept.The most file of these (and famous) was one Alexander Pearce who was known as the Pie Man...he liked to eat people stuffed into little pot pie like things....anyways he escaped the prison in the 1820's and lived out in the wilds of Tasmania. And there are descendants of his living in those wilds.Guess what area the tiger/dog hunters are going to.
So,like I said,yeah,nothing new,in the basic plot,but the way it is told,feels fresh,plus with the true life Pie Man setup,it just feels different.Also,for the most part the main characters are believable and well acted....even though Phillips character is such a total ass its a wonder he could have a life long friend.But the way things are setup and done,with some nice character development,it definitely makes you at least give a lil shit about these people who are trying to avoid being the mystery meat at the dinner table.
So,if you like movies,like the first "Wrong Turn","Hills Have Eyes",all the "Texas Chainsaw" flicks,give this one a shot,it gives this well worn genre a nice bit of fresh air.
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