DYING BREED
More Horror From Down Under. A Trailer For "DYING BREED"
With all of the coverage of Not Quite Hollywood and Acolytes - a documentary about Australian genre film and a new Australian horror film, respectively - running in these pages recently I've just been reminded that we've somehow neglected to say even a single word about "DYING BREED", another new Australian horror film. Making the oversight rather more surprising is that the film actually screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, which you'd think would have called it to our attention ..."DYING BREED" works from the most basic of horror film premises, the group of young students placed in a remote environment where they are victimized by forces beyond their understanding or control. In this case the environment is the island of Tasmania and the group of students trying to prove the existence of a rare animal believed to be extinct. The victimizing force? The wildly inbred progeny of a notorious, cannibalistic killer who view outsiders as both food and breeding stock. Yes, the basic elements are familiar but people keep doing it because in the right hands it keeps working.
Press response to the film has been solid and we've got the trailer below the break in the Twitch Player.
Synopsis : Dying Breed interweaves the two most fascinating icons of Tasmanian history: the extinct Tasmanian tiger and "The Pieman" (aka Alexander Pearce) who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Against all odds, Pearce escaped from the most feared penal settlement of the British Empire - Sarah Island - and disappeared into the impenetrable forests of Western Tasmania. Seven convicts escaped with him, yet Pearce was the only one that emerged... along with chunks of human flesh in his pockets. The legend of Pearce was born. An extinct species... a long forgotten legend... both had a desperate need to survive; both could now have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Many sightings of the tiger have been reported. Many hikers have gone missing. Hundreds in fact. Zoologist Nina is convinced there are still tigers remaining in the Tasmanian wilderness, and she has proof - a photograph of a paw print snapped by her sister just before she met with a fatal accident in the bush eight years before. Unable to attain funding for an expedition, Nina fears her wish to finish her sister's work (and perhaps lay to rest recurrent nightmares she has about her sister's death) will never happen. Her partner, Matt, manages to persuade an old mate Jack to help finance the trip - at a price. Jack brings along a girlfriend, Rebecca, who uses the trip as an escape from her stifling real estate job. On their quest to find the extinct tiger, the group venture deep into isolated territory and into the domain of "Pieman" descendants. "Sarah" is a small township that passionately upholds its cannibalistic heritage in honour of the convict patriarch that gave birth to it. It needs to stay hidden to survive... but it also needs fresh "stock" to breed. The four hunters become the hunted.
US Release : 2009-03-31
Source : twitchfilm.net
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