lastliberal Saw fans will see a familiar face here in a tale of what happens when you go traipsing in the woods. You all know about that if you've watched more than a couple of horror movies.In this one a couple of legends - the Tasmanian Tiger and a cannibalistic killer - are woven together.Nina (Mirrah Foulkes) goes looking for her sister, who was tracking the Tasmanian Tiger in the Tasmanian forest. Leigh Whannell from the Saw franchise is along as Matt.They run into the usual inbred threat. One (Melanie Vallejo) finds their kiss not to be pleasant. Of course, there is nothing else pleasant about these people, either.Too bad the film was so poorly lit. It would have been much better.

Bill357 They did it again. Smug, self righteous "filmmakers" insulting those that refuse to play yes-man to urban elitists.Although this isn't as disgusting as that garbage known as The Mist or the equally despicable From Within (also a Horrorfest III, Crapfest) it's still just as boring with loads of "been there, done that", deja vu moments.It starts off annoying me with a distorted picture, prompting me to turn off the DVD and switch the player from 16x9 to letterbox so that the image would look normal on my widescreen TV. After the first scene it reverts back to normal, forcing me to turn it off again and switch it back. Did the cinematographer lose his anamorphic lens in the woods of Tasmania and have to shoot the rest in standard 1:85 aspect ratio?After that, nothing good or interesting happens for the next fifty or so minutes. The rest is trite, wasting a good premise and photography all the way.It is time to scrap the Horrorfest! After the first eight fairly entertaining set, they degenerated into absolute garbage. Dying Breed, From Within, and Butterfly Effect III: the sequel no one asked for, are all perfect examples. Shape up or ship out, dummies!

Richardm777 Just saw Jody Dwyer's Dying Breed. What an excellent Australian Horror flick it is! It could well be one of my favourite Australian Films of the year.Four young cryptozoologists go to check out Western Tasmania in search of ye ol' Tasmanian Tiger. Little do they know they are stumbling upon the ancestors of Alexander Pearce, the famous Australian ex-convict, bush ranger and sometime cannibal known as the 'Pieman'. Suffice to say fine dining is loosed on the Pieman River as a group of Deliverance style in bred Tassie freaks hunt down our hapless Tiger hunters. Dying Breed is well cast with Leigh Whannell (Saw) giving us a great version of the metro-sexual out of his league in the wilds of Western Tasmania and Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek) as a roustabout larrikin hunter. Whannel is an excellent leading man and should branch out from horror and do other serious work. The two girls Sally MacDonald and Melanie Vallejo are good too. Especially the later, when she is strung up and dismembered Cannibal Holocaust style out the back of the Pieman's shed. I'm sure Leigh Whannell must have been showing the director Cannibal Holocaust, as this scene certainly bears the imprint of that classic film and the Dying Breed scene is very well done in its brutality. The film has various very effective set pieces in a cave, at night in the bush, out the back of the killer's shed, on a bridge at dawn, etc. All shot effectively and scored very nicely. The ominous Tasmanian landscape evokes a darkness akin to what DH Lawrence said about the great primordial emptiness of the Australian bush. The film should travel well as the Aussie accents aren't too harsh, and one is a Irish accent. The family of inbred freaks are memorable and varied in their motivations and actions.Dying Breed is a great edgy genre piece that is one of the first to appear in the new wave of horror cannibal films, so its ahead of the game world wide, also. I would have to rate it right up there with Rogue from last year and Acolytes, Horseman and Rats and Cats.Why did they not enter it in MUFF? It would have won some awards! Check out the posters. I like the stylish one, while the second one with a gory pie will entice the teen market.Stylish new Ozploitation is on display, that gives hope to the future of the Australian Film Industry!

jonb-29 I say 3, Dr K says 4. This was a stinker, we live in Tasmania and our relatives are far more bloody and disgusting than this tourist promo film. It starts poorly and continues in this vein. Although some early scenes are good the rest suffered from poor colour, story and direction. The ending was obviously tacked on to either extend or bring the rating up to some sort of "horror" level.The change from 18th century Tasmania to a shots of a 2007 bridge with all it's safety features just grated. Also, us Tasmanians are rather particular, the open scene in the Pub is obviously in Melbourne Victoria, and the end scene with the police wearing Vic police caps stood out like dog balls.If you want a silly movie you'll love this. When we saw it the audience of Tasmanians were sniggering. That Tas Tiger head was off the show, in reality they had small, very sleek heads, not some sort of Pit Bull head.