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01/09/09
Dying Breed (2009)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:5
Rotten:5
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: The danger of animal monsters pales in comparison to their human counterparts in this Australian horror film. When Nina (Mirrah Foulkes) goes on the same quest her sister died doing eight years... [More]
Starring: Leigh Whannell, Nathan Phillips, Bille Brown, Mirrah Foulkes
Director: Jody Dwyer
Reviews for Dying Breed
1 - 11 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt tries hard to be horrific and gruesome, even introducing a bit of fashionable torture near the end, but only the most credulous will find it genuinely scary.
11/14/08
Top CriticRight from the opening credits, with their strangely beautiful blown-up images of blood and the accompanying darkly rhythmic score, you're primed for something terrible to happen.
11/07/08
Top CriticThere is no civic responsibility in horror. You can insult whomever you like, so long as you make it scary. This one has a few good moments but not enough to rattle one's bones.
11/07/08
Top CriticGrisly as it needs to be, Dying Breed is nevertheless quite a sophisticated horror film, layered with elements and peopled with leading characters who are more than stereotypes, thanks also to top performances.
10/31/08
Top CriticIf Geoffrey Hall's cinematography is eerily beautiful, capturing the isolation and subdued menace of the Tasmanian hinterlands, then there is little else in Dying Breed that, to quote protagonist Nina, "nobody's ever seen before".
03/13/09
The setting is the island of Tasmania rather than the Australian outback, but after WOLF CREEK and STORM WARNING, any city folk stupid enough to wander this far off the track deserve whatever they get - and boy, do they get it.
01/10/09
It's a textbook gorefest. Give it a miss if you don't like blood.
11/07/08
Top CriticEven by the low standards of other horror-movie victims, the foursome here seem blithely clueless, always splitting up for no good reason and running headlong into ambushes.
06/10/08
Top CriticAussie mayhem with cannibalistic inbred idiots and upper middle class whitebread victims fails to set this film apart. But great fun nonetheless.
05/10/08
If you're looking for a horror flick that wants to give you a 'you are there -- and it's freaking miserable' vibe, this one should fit the bill quite nicely.
05/07/08
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