Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Don't listen to the negative reviews
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
View MoreThe film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
View MoreThe sort of film your mum would like if she was insane. Basically, this is a film about a boy/man who loses his eyesight. He is given an eye transplant using a pair of wolf eyes. He sort of turns a bit wolfy and starts a mediocre rampage of terror. He befriends a girl who fully understands his hybrid torment. She herself is half French and half Red Indian... a sort of haw-hee-hontas. She has the face of a log and the personality of a hairbrush. They end up having lame sex just after he eats a mans ear.Absolutely no singing. Was expecting a rendition of Don't Stop Believing. Instead there were plenty of dreary dream-like sequences that the director forgot to cut out. I ended up making so many cups of tea to alleviate the boredom I peed my pants.
View MoreHybrid starts as water treatment planet security guard Aaron Scates (Cory Monteith) is involved in an accident which leaves him blind. Luckily it just so happens that brilliant scientist Dr. Andrea Hewitt (Justine Bateman) who works for Olaris has developed an operation to transplant organs from one species to another, Hewitt decides Aaron would be perfect for her first human experiment. Hewitt & her team transplant the eyes of a Wolf into Aaron & he miraculously regains his sight. Brilliant, right? Well, no not really since Aaron starts to go mad as he sees random images of Wolves & starts to develop a lust for blood. Aaron escapes the Olaris building & goes on the run but he is too valuable to just let go & a full scale search is mounted to capture him...Directed by Yelena Lanskaya this is yet another Sci-Fi Channel offering that is quite simply put terrible in every possible way, I think it probably started out life as a straight 'Creature Feature' but ended up as one of the most boring & dull Sci-Fi Channel films I have seen that doesn't even feature any sort of monster or creature. Hybrid is awful, the script is terrible & I am not even sure who it was meant to appeal to. The initial set-up is OK with Aaron getting Wolf eyes but then Hybrid ditches the sci-fi elements & becomes some sort of horrible drama as it focuses entirely on Aaron's mental state as he wonders around doing nothing in particular with some Native American woman. Yep, you don't think the Sci-Fi Channel could make a film about Wolves & put loads of rubbish about Native American mythology in there as well do you? The dynamics of the character's is bizarre, Aaron is shown as the persecuted hero yet he is the only character to kill anyone in the film & is a fairly unlikable, ungrateful & annoying person while Dr. Hewitt is shown as the evil scientist yet she gives Aaron back his sight & does nothing but try to help him. I mean Aaron is given back the gift of sight yet Hewitt is the villain? Also the regular Sci-Fi Channel staple of US military intervention is present, the problem is why do they want Aaron so badly? He isn't a soldier & while he has Wolves eyes to help him see in the dark he's utterly unremarkable. The script can't make it's mind up whether it's all in Aaron's mind or it's real, the ending is hilariously bad with a half naked (rememeber this was made for telly) Aaron running through a forest with a pack of Wolves set to some horrible music that I think is supposed to be emotional but makes it even more funny. There are so many things wrong with Hybrid, it's slower than hell, there's virtually no action, there's no Werewolves & the film goes round in circles trying to get into Aaron's mind yet it's all so ridiculous, silly & boring you won't care one bit & there's never any explanation as to why despite just having Wolves eyes transplanted Aaron starts to develop other Wolf senses.As a diabetic I have problems with my eyes, hell I have had major surgery on my right eye & I can guarantee you that after an operation your eye would be puffed up, you wouldn't be able to open it & it would hurt like hell yet despite having eye transplants as soon as Aaron wakes up in bed his eyes are perfect with no swelling or even redness. There are no special effects, no blood or gore or violence & nothing to excite you. In fact now I think about it there's nothing even remotely horror or sci-fi feeling about this, it feels like a drab film of the week.Filmed in Manitoba in Canada the film looks OK but is bland & forgettable. The acting is poor from all involved none of whom I have seen before & hopefully never again.Hybrid is a terrible film that is obviously marketed as some Werewolve 'Creature Feature' but is far from that & most people will really struggle to get to the awful ending which will probably have you in stitches.
View MoreIt's an experiment in human behavior. It's an exploration of the most natural of animal impulses. It's something new under the moon. And it bites. When security dispatcher Aaron Scates (Cory Monteith, Final Destination 3) is blinded in an explosion, he's put in the care of Dr. Andrea Hewlitt (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Justine Bateman, Arrested Development), famous in her field for spearheading extraordinary-though controversial-medical breakthroughs. Her newest is cross-species organ transplants, and Aaron is her first human subject. When a severely wounded wolf is brought to Dr. Hewlitt's office by museum curator Lydia Armstrong (Tinsel Korey, Into the West), Dr. Hewlitt leaps on the opportunity and successfully transplants the wolf's eyes to Aaron-despite Lydia's objections. Aaron, however, is thrilled. Not only can he see again, he can see in the dark. He also has an unusually acute sense of hearing, and tears into a raw steak like never before. Unfortunately, he also tends growl, and to target people as prey. Lydia knows why. Knowing Aaron is in danger-to himself and to others -Lydia confesses that she too is a cross-breed but has learned to channel her feral instincts into a source of strength, not violence, with the help of her shaman friend, Claude Robertson (Gordon Tootoosis, Dreamkeeper). After Lydia and Aaron explore their other animal instincts in the privacy of Lydia's lair, she takes him to Claude's for a rite-of-passage to integrate the young man's spirit with that of a wolf. But Dr. Hewitt's colleagues, who have seen Aaron's wilder side, are determined to hunt the beast down and destroy him. What they don't know is that Aaron has more on his side than a shaman and an empathetic girlfriend. He's made some new friends at the zoo. They travel in packs. And they don't need a full moon to commune. Like Wolfen, The Howling, and An American Werewolf in London before it, Hybrid delivers a snarlingly sharp twist on the werewolf genre for an all new generation of animal lovers.not the best movie I've seen, yet I still would not recommend watching the movie.
View More**SPOILERS** Experimenting with organ transplants at the top secret Olaris Corp. Dr. Andera Hewlitt, Justine Bateman, has been able to successfully preform an eye transplant from a wolf to a baboon. It's when Dr, Hewlitt comes across a blinded security guard Aaron Scates, Cory Monteith, who was badly injured at a explosion at the plant he worked at that she used the eyes of a gray wolf to restore Aaron sight.It turns out that the wolf was brought to a local animal hospital by half French half American Indian Lydia, Tinsal Korey, who expected the injured animal to be treated for it's wounds not used in an laboratory experiment. Going to Olris Corp. to give Dr, Hewlitt a piece of her mind, on what she did to the injured wolf, Lydia is escorted out by security guards and told to stay within 50 feet of the place or else she'll be arrested for trespassing.It doesn't take that long for Aaron to realize that he not only has a new, and in good working order, pair of eyes but also a new sense of direction in life: That of a big and powerful Alpha Wolf! Aaron not only sees like a wolf but both smells and hears, and fights, like one as well. Aaron soon starts to get restless, hearing the call of the wild, and escapes from his hospital room running, bear-foot and with only his hospital pajamas on, into Lydia. Lydia upset at how she was treated at Olaris Corp. is driving home to her good friend and spiritual adviser Indian Shaman Claud Robertson, Gordon Tootoosis. Claud is the person who in the end would not only give the confused Aaron a reason for living, to reunite with his former wolf pack in the wild, but will save his life from the power-hungry military man Mobley, Will Woytowich. Mobley is trying to shut Aaron up about the secret experiments he was put under at Olaris Corp. If this all comes out Mobley and his both stooges and superiors will have to answer to congress and the American people in what their doing! Not in saving lives but, Mobley's real reasons for the wolf to human transplants, creating an super secret corps of mindless and vicious "wolfmen", who can see in the dark without the use of inferred goggles, to be incorporated into US military. The movie "Hybrid" doesn't get moving until Aaron completely abandons whatever human feeling he still has left and becomes a full fledged Alpha Wolf in the wild. After trying to rustle up a wolf pack in the civilized city all Aaron could get to follow him is a bunch of stray dogs. It's when Claud gets Aaron to understand his noble mission in life, with a whiff of ancient Native Amerian Indian wisdom, that he realizes that as much he likes his former life as a human being he's now and forever a child of the wild, and night. A wiser and enlighten Aaron now does according to what and where his animal instincts lead him. Aaron goes on to leading the wolf pack like he did in his previous life as the big gray wolf who's eyes he's now seeing with.
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