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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: First Look Pictures
Salesrank: 33537
Released: May 22, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A group of friends (Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, Hill Harper and Oliver Hudson) fly away to a deserted island for the weekend, an island once controlled by a special canine research unit. They soon realize that this beautiful getaway will become their biggest nightmare. Inspired by the horror classics, Cujo and The Birds. The Breed takes you into the jaws of a flesh eating pack of wild dogs, genetically engineered to hunt and kill. Outnumbered and trapped they struggle to outsmart and outrun this terrifying species.
Description of Wes Craven Presents The Breed:
Wes Craven served as executive producer on this direct-to-video chiller about a group of friends who discover that the remote island they've chosen as a vacation spot is home to a wild pack of attack dogs. After dispatching a sailboater and his bikini-clad girlfriend, the canines (which look more cuddly than ferocious) pick off the interloping friends with all-too-human cunning; the survivors have just enough time to discover that the mutts are the product of military genetic experiments to create unstoppable attack dogs. Director Nick Mastrandrea (a longtime production associate of both Craven and George Romero) lends a professional look to his debut feature, and gets decent performances from his cast (which includes Lost's Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, and Oliver Hudson), but the script is tired almost from page one, and the resulting action and gore do little to help this indie picture stand out from the rest of the horror crowd. Dog lovers with soft hearts should be forewarned that the CGI stand-ins for the animal actors endure some gruesome abuse in the course of the picture. –-Paul Gaita
Wes Craven Presents The Breed Reviews:
Pack Mentality... 
2009-12-13 - To be honest, I watched THE BREED in order to see Michelle Rodriguez kick some major doggy butt. Well, she mostly plays the victim, along w/ her band of twentysomething friends, consisting of another babe and three GQ-male-model types. Said friends are just trying to spend a drunken weekend on a lonely island, never expecting the canine horror which awaits them. Many super-intelligent dogs attack, causing much mayhem, but only a slight dip in alcohol consumption. Ms. Rodriguez does attempt some acrobatic heroics, just no lightning-fast fists or kicks of fury. I was hoping for her character to be a bit more like her soldier role in RESIDENT EVIL. Alas, she was too well-behaved! The rest of the cast reminded me of any other throw-away group of psycho-fodder from a thousand other movies. As for the plot, it's sort of an update of THE KILLER SHREWS, minus the doggy-shrew costumes. Okay for a late night viewing...
Scarry-action 
2009-11-05 - A movie like as to "The Pack" and "Kujo" all in one.Don't know if all members of the family can watch it though.Has a lot of attack scenes by the dogs..Will keep you on the edge of your seat for sure.
Anything but a Lassie movie..Except for the amazing intelligence of the dogs.
bad doggies
2009-07-17 - Well, the Breed is probably not THAT great because the movie is basically another "kill all the teenagers one by one" kind of horror film which is not much different from any number of slasher films out there.
One thing that's pretty funny to me is that, when the dogs were attacking the teens, many times you can tell the dogs were happy while supposedly tearing people apart. The film directors should have cut away any scenes that showed the dogs wagging their tails because it seems really silly watching killer dogs wag their tail as they tear apart their delicious victims (and yes, I KNOW in reality quite often it appears like dogs are wagging their tails when they're actually eating at a dead body, but come on, the dogs in this movie are clearly happy).
I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting pretty tired of generic horror movies starting off by showing teens partying and having fun. It's such a boring, typical way to start a movie and it's *really* starting to get on my nerves.
As for the story itself, well...
mutated dogs vicious enough to bring down a human being weren't *quite* as vicious as you're led to believe. The dogs are actually normal-sized, very ordinary looking dogs. They should have been created MUCH bigger and badder than they ended up. They still pack a mean punch despite their regular size however.
The film contains a respectable amount of action and suspense, though you have to wait a good 30 minutes for things to pick up.
Overall, extremely dangerous dogs located on some island in the middle of nowhere while teens try to find a way to escape is a nice storyline, though the film had some funny moments as well such as one scene where the teens throw a dead dog outside in the yard of their cabin, a pack of wild dogs come up and start eating the dead mut, and the teens hurry back inside. The teens really didn't NEED to hurry back inside during this particular moment since the vicious dogs were distracted by the dead dog. Also, the one teen that kept tripping over everything in the dark was clumsy as heck, and yet, he was laughing about it the entire time. Come on, there's NOTHING to laugh about when hungry dogs are outside waiting to kill you. And the girl who had these amazing athletic skills by flipping over cars and flipping up and down houses and barns like Spiderman to escape the dogs was supposed to be believable? No way!
Overall, I like the movie.
This may be Wes Craven's best film ever
2008-10-27 - OK, first off I would like to say that usually I'm not the biggest Wes Craven fan. I never have thought his PG-13 horror films were worth much of anything and before this film the only good movie I ever thought Wes Craven ever directed/produced that well were the Night Mare On Elm Street films, the one series of movies I was told were scarier then anything else when I was little. But this film was a really good movie, it was well worth the $7.50 I payed for it at Family Video. The monsters in this movie were not only well developed, but also believable and the picture and sound quality of the film was done exceptionally well. And I would also say that it was scarier then most of the Night Mare On Elm Street Films.
Where's the Dog Whisperer when you need him? 
2008-10-14 - Not since Cujo has man's best friend become his worst enemy. Whereas the previous attacks were caused by rabies, this time around it's the result of genetic engineering gone wrong.
A group of young friends make their way to an isolated island where they expect to spend a wild time full of drinking, partying, and debauchery. What they find instead is a large pack of vicious dogs protecting their island; or, as one character put it, "scary-a@# lassies" looking for food. Although, one scene in which dogs are swimming after a person is completely hilarious, because we all know that in the water, human is far superior. It would have just been a matter of holding breath, and drowning a few dogs. As for real plot, it's simply Darwinian, survival of the fittest.
I'm sure there is a morality lesson about playing God in there somewhere, but I didn't care and I hardly noticed.
With nice special effects, production, cinematography, and pretty fair acting, it's what one would expect from a Wes Craven production. The acting is particularly astute (especially the four-legged actors), and aside from Michelle Rodriguez, the cast is comprised of pretty good young actors who we've all seen before, but can't name. Actually, the thing that's great about Rodriguez is crystal clear in this movie. Even as a leading lady, she can't shake the "tough" chick persona. I was waiting for her to snap a dog's spine over her knee during the entire movie.
It has typical horror elements, like the moron who descends into the basement towards his demise - in this case genetically engineered, mutant dogs with a taste for human flesh - is waiting in the dark. At times the idiocy makes you want to scream at the screen, "Climb a tree genius!" Thankfully, however, the "black guy dies first"-rule isn't followed until Noah (Hill Harper) provides some laughs with funny one-liners like "crazy-a&* old yellers". Given the concept, it's more advanced than one would think, with one great scene where the dogs make their eventual assault on the cabin - straight from a classic zombie movie. The story and character development is crisp, creating just enough empathy for the characters and their predicament, however unreal it may be.
I recommend this highly for horror fans, and only mildly for others.
