A Breed Apart

Griff Furst's A Breed Apart is a brutal, pulse-pounding ride that strips away the glitz of influencer culture and replaces it with raw, primal terror. While the premise teases satire, what unfolds is a surprisingly grounded survival horror that keeps its foot on the gas from start to finish.

Violet, portrayed with resilience and grit by Hayden Panettiere, is introduced as a clout-chasing rebel with a love for dogs especially the abandoned and misunderstood. When she's lured to a remote island under the promise of exclusive content and viral fame, she and her fellow influencers find themselves caught in a deadly trap. Their task? Hunt down the island's mythic, man-eating dogs before becoming their next meal.

The genius of A Breed Apart lies in its claustrophobic setting and escalating tension. Furst doesn't waste time; the horror hits early and hard. The island, lush and haunting, becomes a character in its own right its silence broken only by the screams of the hunted and the snarls of predators that have clearly adapted to outwit man.

What makes this film stand out from other creature horrors is its lack of reliance on jump scares. Instead, Furst builds dread organically, drawing on isolation, mistrust among the guests, and the ever-present fear that they've underestimated the intelligence and coordination-of the monstrous canines.

Virginia Gardner and Grace Caroline Currey deliver grounded performances, showing the slow unraveling of personas as survival instincts take over. There's little glamour in this world; even the most polished characters are stripped down to their most desperate selves.

Don't expect a morality tale or a biting satire this is horror through and through. A Breed Apart succeeds by not holding back. It's tense, fast-paced, and violent without apology.

What was the budget of the movie?! How many steaks, pizzas, bread, or feeding the poor, malnourished people all over the world would that help. Studios funding those craps should be simply annihilated.

As for the movie if that could be called a movie, besides some funny acting, beautiful ever young faces like Virginia Gardner and a powerfully sad Hayden Panettiere who had far better days with 'Heroes' there's nothing more to root for besides some stupid dogs and humans, there were some realistic moments, uncanny chases (for jokes of course) and even a shark!

They need to combine this with Jurassic World and make a series of it, rabid dogs, flying dragons and T-Rex what a joyful combo that would make.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 2
• Production value/impact: 3
• Development: 4.5
• Realism: 2
• Entertainment: 2.5
• Acting: 4
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 5
• VFX: 4.5
• Music/score/sound: 4.5
• Depth: 2
• Logic: 1
• Flow: 2.5
• Drama/horror/action/tragedy: 2
• Ending: 1.5.

It's obviously down to the individual but this _could_ fall into that camp for you. The part on the cell tower made me laugh for instance, it's _so_ terrible in both conception and implementation that I just can't believe the film makers didn't know what they were making. It _must_ be deliberate, surely ? Maybe even a satire on AI slop ?

Don't get me wrong, no one should waste their time watching this in my view but _in case_ there's more intent behind its across the board stupidity and terrible craftsmanship than may appear and because IF you watch it with friends in the altered mental state of your choice it almost certainly _will_ provide some amusement, albeit entirely _at_ rather than _with_ the movie, I give it 3 stars.

First couple minutes, when they were just introducing the influencers, actually felt like this could be something fun. But after that... boy oh boy.

The dialogues are straight-up stupid. Most of the time I couldn't even tell if there was a joke, like was I supposed to laugh? Is this supposed to be a parody?

The CGI... I swear they used some random Chinese AI to generate it and they've got the absolute awful eye hurting result and were like "Yep, perfect. Ship it!" No second tries, no shame. Just pure visual pain.

I've seen a lotta low budget action flicks, but this one takes the crown for absolute laziness.

The biggest mystery? How the hell they got Hayden, Ginny, or Grace to be part of this? All three of them are thousands of miles above this dumpster fire.

This is so painfully bad in every way imaginable. The use of horrendous quality CGI in some scenes and AI generated images in others really makes everything feel super disjointed snd sloppy.

The acting is awful, and if I hadn't read the movie description, I would never know it was supposed to be a horror comedy. There are nearly zero funny moments. Other than the ones are just funny because of how bad and cheesy the acting is. The character Collins is especially unlikable and has mostly only cringey interactions throughout.

Very upset and saddened I wasted time and money of this piece of trash. I'm disappointed in every one involved with making this, but more than anything I'm disappointed in me. For paying actually money for one of thr worst movies I have ever seen.