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.

I think three stars is a little to much for this movie.. Oh my God, the acting is so dull, the CGI.. wow, I have no words to describe how bad is it.. like in a tv series with very low budget form the '90's... We're evolving, but backwards... I don't like to give bad reviews, but I can say something good about this movie... just maybe the idea is ok, but the way it show on the screen is so bad.. I don't know what I can say more, just don't waste your time on this... I'm the first one who give a rating and a review, I will come back after a while, i'm curious what rating this movie will get after a few weeks.

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.

The visual fx studio on this one should be embarassed. Sure the writing was terrible, and the acting was bad, but it wasn't until i saw the digital fx, that truly hated this movie.

Couldn't finish it. Gt 20 minutes in, and there was just something about the fake dogs. Sure they were composited terribly, but there was this weird feel to them, and all the fx that i couldn't put my finger on. Then it hit me. Why everything was so swimmy, and visual inconsistent. It's all just AI 'art'. Lazy garbage.

Anyone involved in the production of this giant turd should leave film production, and never look back.