Dying Breed (After Dark Horrorfest III Review)

Plot
Eight years ago, Nina's sister disappeared in the Australian backcountry while searching for the mythical Tasmanian tiger. With only one clue -- a photograph of a mysterious paw print -- in hand, Nina sets out to continue her sister's work.

Jason's Thoughts
I haven't watch too many Australian horror films in my life, but the ones I have watched have been great, and Dying Breed is no exception.  In it, the film successfully marries Australian folk lore with the crazy inbreed cannibal genre, and throws in a bit of the down under charm as well.

The story involves a search for the mythical, and possibly extinct, Tasmanian tiger and the bloodline of Alexander Pearce, the infamous criminal that busted out of prison and was accused of eating his fellow escaped inmates.  In the movie, a woman and a small group of friends go on a quest to find these tigers in the same area where her sister mysteriously disappeared eight years prior.  While on their search, they come across a family of cannibals that stop at nothing from making them their next meal.

Dying Breed starts off like many newer horror films where the first half of the movie gives the characters time to develop a bit before the switch is flipped and it turns into full on horror movie with gore a plenty.  This movie has everything from fingers and lips being bitten right off the body to the use of "man traps," which look a lot like bear traps, but used to catch and trap humans.  When the gore isn't in full effect, Dying Breed has a bunch of great shots of the landscape around Tasmania and really is beautiful to look at.  

The best aspect of Dying Breed, however, is the ending.  When it looks like everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow and you are ready for the credits to roll, it goes on for another 10 minutes or so.  While what I thought was the ending was decent, where it ended up going was great.  Dying Breed is yet another movie in this series of After Dark Horrorfest films that ends on a down note, and that made this movie that much better.

Australia seems to be a good place for horror movies as the locations work and the myths and legends supply plenty of story ideas, especially considering its history as a penal colony.

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