This wes craven-spired horror remake is one of the best worst horror movies i’ve in a long time

Wann The Breed Came Out in 2006, The Michelle Rodriguez-Let Horror Movie Came and Went with Fanfare, Serving as another unfortunate blemish on we Craven’s Filmography. As Such, i Certainly Found MySelf intrigue when A breed apart was announced to be in development, as the concept of genetically enhanced dogs going on a rampage sounded like a fun one if Done properly. Plus, The Casting of Hayden Paettiere Made with Excited to SEE Horror Tenure Continue. Unfortunately, not only the Movie Fail to Clear the Original’s Low Bar, but it becomes one of the best Worst Movies.

Written and Directed by Nathan and Griff Furst, Known as The Fundst Brothers, A breed apart is a meta take on the original film, in Which The Breed TRIED and FAILED TO GET MADE AFTER THE DOGS AND THEIR HANDLERS WENT MISSING. Over a decade late, a wealthy social media influenza invites a group of oter influencers to that island for a compation to win the deed to the island. COME MAKE THEYSLY ISLAND IS FULL OF THE MAN-Eating Dogs Who Went Missing During the Original Movie’s Production, the Group Must Fight for their Survival.

A BREED APPLY’S META Story is Interesting at First Before Becoming a Generic Mess

The Movie Weirdly Shifts Its Focus Away From Its Mont Interesting Character

A meta-drove Story is one that offten hooks with directly into a movie, partly Because it leads to some fun satirical beats regarding the industry and subverts expectations. A breed apart Certainly Started on Ant Interesting Note in This Regard, Catching with Off-Guard with the fact that it appeared to be during the production of the craven-professional original Breedalbeit a fictionalized one, as panettiere plays fake actor hayden hears, and its scrapped filming.

But this is essentally the end of A breed apart‘s element, as the movie’s shift to focus on the influenber characters also pushes panettiere’s character out for the Most of the Film. While this is coulued have led to a funkown of the influenber Culture Through a creature Feature lens, it’s ultimately a missed opportunity, Particularly with How Little I Liked any of the Characters.

While Grace Caroline Curry’s Violet and Virginia Garner’s Thalia have enjoyable moments, the rest of the Roster Feel Like they’re Such-the-Top Archepes of Popular Influenza I felt no real conflict to say, or a desire to know. This is sturgery worn becase the Movie makes no real effords to give anyone-Rounded arcs or characterizations, relay on their personalities for endless amid carnage.

I can’t telt if the movie wanted to be as funny as it was

Some beats are intentionally comedic while others are so Bad i was cackling

Where the original Breed was a light more rrightforward horror drama, A breed apart proves to be a rather funny effhority, though how Much is intended is hard for me to say. There are parts that definitely feel like the broths recagated the potential hilary of their concept, including violet kicking a rabid puppy a field goal, Complete with ridiculous editing and a quip of “I just kicked a puppy“From Curry’s Character. It Also Goes Into Sharknado-Level insanity as the dogs suddenly start climbing trees and swinging from ropees to go after the human characters.

Other Parts Feel Like they were intended to be somewhat serous, and yet i still found mySelf Laughing at Just How Ridiculous and Over-The-Top the Execution was. Whether ITS of the Dogs AttemPing to Break Through a Door to Attack Someone, or Paettiere A Big Hero Moment of Taching Dogs with Ease, Only to Kills to be Humorous, the Fundst Brothers’ Tonal Execution was really hard to Nail Down.

The Visual Effects are an Absolute Atrocity

I’m Pretty Sure they were made with it

With the saying the Biggest Part of the Film, the Dogs The Says Were Important for A breed apart to deliver on, and yet they miss the Mark by a Country Mile. Though no Budsery figures have been revealed, IT CERTAINLY FEELS LIKE THIS MOVIE WAS MADE ON A SMALLER BUDGET, with some of the cgi looking quite terrible, participle interacting with the human characters. More EGREGIOUS IS THAT A LOT OF THE MOVIE’S CGI LOOKS TO HAVE BEEN MADE WITH AS, AS THE BRUSHSTROKE-Like Backgrounds and Emotionless Highlights of the Animals Artificial Look.

What’s the work worse is that A breed apart‘S Credits Consist of Beind-the-Scenes Footage from the Production, which Included Real Dogs, and Decent Puppets I Honestly Waled Have Watching to the Terrible CGI. Gioven the furtate brothers are clearly aimit for an over-the-top and ridiculous tone, i’m sura the awophul cgi part of their vision, but Rather than feel like a tongue-in-chenre film, it instead of the movie one of the best’-s-boad I’ve seen in a long time.

A breed apart Hits Theaters, Vod and Digital Platforms on May 16.

A breed apart

3/10

Release Date

May 16, 2025

Runtime

100 minutes

Directory

Griff stars, nathan stars

Wriers

Nathan Furst, Griff Furst

Producers

Eric Feig, Ray Moheet

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  Grace Caroline Currey

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Pros & Cons

• The Movie’s Knowing Sense of Humor Makes for Some Hillary Moments.
• Its meta beginning is a frysh take on the concept.

• The story quickly devolves on a formulaic creurae feature.
• The Movie’s tone is just as Ridiculously Bad as intentionally funny.
• The visual effects are terrible and janky, Likely made with him.
• The Direction and Editing is Incredibly Choppy and too fast that make it more dizzying than engaging.