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Product details

  • Actors: Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson, Eric Lively, Taryn Manning
  • Directors: Nick Mastandrea
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Aug 2007
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000S6UZEW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,426 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
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, Amazon.com

Synopsis
A group of friends visit an exotic, isolated island for a relaxing holiday. However, their peace is threatened by a seemingly abandoned dog-training facility also on the island. The friends, comprised of John, his brother Matt, Nicki, Sara, and Noah, fly into the island on a seaplane with the sole aim of enjoying themselves. This is disrupted when Sara is bitten by a dog. Matt tells Nicki that there had been reports that the dog-training facility on the island had been forced to shut down a year previously due to an outbreak of a disease and all the dogs were put down. The group soon find this not to be the case and are quickly besieged by aggressive dogs, leaving them having to devise a plan to escape the island with their lives. Nicholas Mastandrea makes his directorial debut with this slick but terrifying offering. Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Nicki, athletically attempts to evade the snarling dogs, something she excelled at in RESIDENT EVIL. Legendary horror maestro Wes Craven produced the film.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Bad Dog, 7 Feb 2008
By Stevie G "Stevie G" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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To be fair I wasnt expecting much from this film. Group of friends go out to a secluded island to party, then get attacked by wild dogs. Its hardly Wes Cravens greatest idea, and a setup thats probably been done hundreds of times.

The film does itself no favours when the dogs in most scenes dont look rabid or mutated in the slightest. Just normal dogs, with a bit of red around the mouth. It just seems very silly and far fetched. When its done with tongue in cheek it can work, but the Breed takes itself far too seriously for that.
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5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Just Another Bad Horror Movie, 29 Jun 2007
By TomBeTom "TE-M" (Nottinghamshire, England) - See all my reviews
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In my review of 2005's "Red Eye" I stated that films bearing the name of Wes Craven in any respect vary massively in quality of content from the extremely good to the unbelievably bad. That specific film was one of the success stories of said films. As it happens there is usually no middle ground with Wes Craven's films. One of few exceptions so far as I'm personally concerned is 2005's "Cursed" which fell somewhere between given it's atmospheric tone but disappointing lack of gore. So what of 2007's "The Breed", the latest UK release to bear the sub-title: 'A Wes Craven Production'? Well, it's pretty bad to tell the truth.

Five college friends arrive on an supposedly desserted island for a weekend of partying, drinking and having fun. Unfortunately for them the island isn't nearly as desserted as they originally believe. When a cute little puppy emerges from the woods the group can't seem to get enough of it. However, the puppy's fellow resident dogs aren't quite so welcoming. When one of the group is bitten outside of the cabin things begin to go drastically wrong. They see a group of dogs tear a man apart in front of them and realise that the dogs want, pretty much, to eat them for dinner too. The dogs chew through the rope holding their plane ashore, causing it to drift off. And as the bloodthirsty dogs continue to attack the group must figure out how to get off of the island before they all become dog food.

Michelle Rodriguez has had an unfortunate career. She's very talented as an actress but too often finds herself in trashy, substandard movies such as this. Aside from TV series "Lost", she's found little luck with regards to acting roles. In "The Breed" she's the standout performer and easily superior to any of her co-stars. Also performing well is Harper Hill. The actor is immediately likeable for all his cockiness and arrogance. Its a shame that his character never gets beyond being the token black guy and thus finds his talents wasted long before he's also devoured. That's a shame, because he's probably the most likeable actor involved. Eric Lively was awful in 2007's "The Butterfly Effect 2" and he's definitely no better here. In "The Breed" Lively conveys all the emotions of a blank canvas. Taryn Manning is surprisingly poor as first to be bitten Sara. She doesn't do a suitable enough job portraying the confused, deteriorating character at all. Oliver Hudson talks in the same tone of voice throughout, no matter what situation he finds himself in -- but at least he's better than Lively.

"The Breed" isn't something that I'd refer to as awful, just pretty bad. The movie is very atmospheric throughout but the dog attacks are under-realised and too often result in nothing more than the enraged-by-default dogs jumping up walls or closed doors. Also poor is the way that the stalking of the humans is handled. It doesn't make sense that dogs as unstable as these would utilize such stealth as they do. Sure, they're not like any normal dogs. But the sneakiness of it all isn't all that believable and could have perhaps resulted in a better motion picture had the actions of the dogs been more consistent throughout -- the second half consists of the dogs going all-out crazy, in contrast.

Speaking of the dogs. Not enough has been done in "The Breed" to make the dogs look as scary as they probably should have been. Too clean and, in some cases, too beautiful to be particularly convincing as wild animals with an advantage, they could have been a bit messier and substantially sinister. Some will undoubtedly believe them to be too cute to achieve the scare-factor this film requires them to have.

"The Breed" is a substandard horror movie made with some substandard actors and substandard canine villains of the piece. Rodriguez and Hill can only bring so much quality to proceedings before the movie grows tiresome, even given it's reasonably trim running-time. Mismanaged and inconsistent, "The Breed" isn't going to set the world on fire.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The breed, 26 Sep 2008
By LISA Nelson "Lisa" (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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I thought I was buying a movie about Zombies. But It was Feral like dogs.
It is a really good movie and for anyone who slags the woofs, looks at the extra's on the DVD. Most will maybe appreciate the performance of the dogs and the human actors working together.

The Woofs did great job and so did the actors and staff.

The movie was great, OMG and what are they gonna do. I loved it and I would love to see a cat version. Some people don't like dogs, but many are scared of cats.
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3.0 out of 5 stars WES CRAVEN HAS MADE HIS FIRST STINKER OF A MOVIE
The starting is promising but gradually takes a slope downhill. It would have been better if the dogs actually looked like they had rabies (as in Stephen kings 'cujo' which beats... Read more
Published 10 months ago by R. Szikra

1.0 out of 5 stars truly awful
this has too be seen to be belived,this is one of the worst films ive ever seen.avoid,avoid. this is just an awful,awful,awful film
Published 13 months ago by martin thomas

2.0 out of 5 stars Let the Manhunt Begin? Only if it's after the Director...
Picture the set up - you're a director with the backing of Wes Craven. Your star is the kick-ass Michelle Rodriguez. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. Benjamin Greene

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite a pedigree.....
This is an ok film, more of a thriller than a horror but far from a classic. Perfect renting material but not really one to buy. Read more
Published 18 months ago by DVD Fan

2.0 out of 5 stars It may be time for Wes Craven to retire.
Well, personally I feel that our Wonderful Wes Craven as finally lost it. If this is the standard of film he is bringing to our screens, then I really think he should retire... Read more
Published 18 months ago by A. I. Missen

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT BAD BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
Partying for a weekend, friends John, (Oliver Hudson) Nicki, (Michelle Rodriguez) Sara, (Taryn Manning) Matt, (Eric Lively) and Noah, (Hill Harper) head to a deserted island to... Read more
Published 20 months ago by stuart

4.0 out of 5 stars Could have been 5 stars, but Wes Craven is admittedly loosing his touch
The plot is far from originality: 5 kids go and stay in a creepy cottage on a dessert island for a few days, and after realising they are being hunted by a breed of rabid dogs,... Read more
Published 21 months ago by The long old dusty road.

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