Breeder - Die Zucht

As a dane, I was really hoping ... We have the directors, actors and writers to potentially create great horror movies, but not this time ... This is shallow. Bad acting, mechanical and lazy .. The monologues were horrible .. I was really hoping for a great horror from Denmark at some point in our lifetime, but this is definitely not one of them. Good efford, but nah ...

Bad acting... Good plot... Bad script... Great filming and lighting... Bad bad acting!

This is a tough movie to watch. You kind of know where this will go early on. But once you are there ... boy, even with this not being as explicit as it could be, it is really going to put you through the wringer. The very beautiful woman who plays the main character has issues - or rather her husband seems to have issues to please her.

It seems he is too invested in his business. More than that actually to be truthful. And she isn't alone in that. So the movie turns on its head sort of halfway through and never looks back - no pun intended. But I'm not going to split hair(s) here - well that is an intended pun. Again this is a thriller but there is a lot of hurt and a lot pain dished out ... not wanting to handle it, does not mean one thing or another. Just be aware this is not for the squeamish.

The first 1/3 kept us interested, but then it became quite boring and just went downhill from there. The ending was insanely stupid. I did not find the acting as bad as some claim, though. They should have made it at least 10 minutes shorter, also.

It seems to have been inspired by ISLAND OF DR MOREAU, same scheme, but in a more modern way. Good directing and suspense too, adequate atmosphere, oppressive, stressful but unfortunately not surprising at the end. Old school cinema, I would say, though there were batches of horror movies of more or less this kind since several decades. Not a bad film, worth watching. Dario Argento or David Cronenberg would have liked it, I guess.