A Breed Apart (2025) Review
A rebel seeking abandoned dogs on a remote island finds herself in a terrifying situation filled with adrenaline-fueled chaos. Starring Grace Caroline Currey (FALL), Virginia Gardener (FALL), Hayden Panettiere (SCREAM VI), Riele Downs (DARBY AND THE DEAD), Zak Steiner (THE GHOST TRAP), Page Kennedy (THE MEG), and Troy Gentile (NACHO LIBRE). Written by Bon Conte with Griff Furst (LAKE PLACID 3) and Nathan Furst who also direct.
At times this has the potential to play out as one of those movies that is so bad that it is good but alas it remains simply as plain bad. The tone and pacing of the film is so off-kilter right from the start that I failed to find a foothold and I remained scrambling for one throughout and consequently the film fast became an endurance test to sit through.
Not one scene holds together, it is so frenetically assembled that nothing works and instead of watching a fluid film it feels more like you are having a disembodied experience. That sounds harsh as everyone involved looks to be giving it their best, but the resulting flick is a headache to watch and has you constantly poised to switch it off, which had I not had the task to review the full film, I would have done.
A BREED APART plays as if a series of random ideas were thought up on the day of filming with little in the way of how to execute them. Take for example the attacking dogs, the visual effects work is sadly not up to the task, and a film that is about dogs attacking people it really needed to have its ‘A’ game in play and make them convincing, it doesn’t and consequently the film fails on that count as well.
I understand that A BREED APART is intended as a remake of the modern cult 2006 canine horror THE BREED, and that it the nicest thing I have to say about it.
A Breed Apart is available on Digital HD 13 October. Distributed by Signature Entertainment