Review of Dying Breed (2008) by Sarah F — 21 Sep 2009
Once I got past the things that annoyed me about this movie, it wasn't a bad little local slasher film. Enjoyable to an extent, but nothing of brilliance.
The things that annoyed me however: all the insinuations that people from Tasmania are inbreed criminals purely from being descended from convicts.
The idiocy of someone from Ireland wandering in and thinking they can find the Tasmanian Tiger when many many years of locals looking for it have turned up nothing but unsubstantiated rumours.
The absolute massacre of the real history of Alexander Pearce. I can take speculation around what actually happened, but they didn't mention what actually happened. The only similarities are that he was an Irish convict who escaped and did at one stage eat human flesh. The only people he ever actually killed were other convicts he escaped with from hunger (and one he got pissed at for being incompetent when they escaped together).
The tagline at the end. 'More than 250 people have gone missing in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have every been found.' Get real. Sure, there probably has been more than 250 people who've gone missing in the Tasmanian wilderness whose remains have never been found. But there has been people who go missing in the Tasmanian wilderness whose remains have been found.
*sigh* So much potential, so little follow through. There was so much in the actual true history of events that could have been used, and it just wasn't.
This review of Dying Breed (2008) was written by Sarah F on 21 Sep 2009.
Dying Breed has generally received mixed reviews.
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