Very well executed

disgusting, overrated, pointless

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I stumbled on this dvd in a garage-sale for 10 cents and didn't have high hopes, but it turned out as a gem! Don't let the relatively low rating here on IMDb fool you, this is actually a very good film. It's not so much horror as more of a nerve-wrecking thriller, imagine Cujo and The Birds tied together by Wes Craven as producer and you'll get the drift. The plot is simple: a bunch of friends are planning a few leisure days on an abandoned island, when to their horror they are attacked by wild and ferocious dogs. They have to try every cunning trick they can think of to outsmart the dogs, while the body count increases. The pace is high, the dogs are really menacing, the special effects and stunts (many attacks by the dogs) are top notch and I was sitting on the edge of my chair the whole time, right up to the last scare. Okay, the whole "genetic manipulating"-thing wasn't really necessary as far as I was concerned, and the complicated brother-to-brother feud didn't serve any purpose either, but for the rest I absolutely loved it!

Once opened it stinks!A bunch of young thrill seekers hit an uninhabited island for a week of frivolity and loving of the land. Two of the guys had an uncle who lived there, but he died, so the island is there's to abuse and use in any way they see fit. Only there's some growling dogs roaming the island, and they aren't the petting kind.Awash with clichés, contrivances and generic genre tropes, The Breed is the definition of a horror picture made purely for monetary gain. There is no care or concern for the viewers, the makers insulting our intelligence on a regular basis. The actors are way too old to be playing the student characters, the characters each have a trait that will be integral to the story (yawn), and some of the dialogue is cringe worthy in the extreme. By the time a key character gets and arrow through the leg - only to turn into Olga Korbut five minutes later - you may want to unscrew your head and punt your brain up field.The dogs, however, are awesome and just about make this doggie dinner watchable. All things considered, you would be better off renting Wilderness (2006), made for a quarter of the budget than that for The Breed but considerably better wholesale. 4/10

I heard that this was a Horror and that was about it. When the opening credits began with the sweeping camera over the brilliantly blue sea and the bad rock music, I knew that it was instead going to be some sort of "teen" slasher; when the "acting - or what passes for it - started, I knew it was going to be terrible.Instead of a cabin in the woods, mansion somewhere out of town or a very detached house somewhere in suburbia, the setting this time was an island, where 18 year olds with seaplanes apparently like to party and share girls.Why do these films always try to set up characters nobody will ever care about is my main question. After 10 minutes I fast forwarded the awful play-by-numbers dialogue but the film only appeared to get worse, prompting me to turn it off altogether.Even the biggest Wes Craven/slasher fan would be hard pushed to sit through this stinker. AVOID.

A bunch of adults-playing-teenagers go to an isolated house, for a weekend of fun and everything else teens do in horror films. However, what was at first a fun weekend for the group ends up as a fight for their life as they are attacked. As expected from the plot and/or from a Wes Craven picture, 'The Breed' is overflowing with the typical slasher clichés. Also present is Craven's typical 'tough female lead', this time played by Michelle Rodriguez (who really isn't good).However, two things change in this usual horror-movie clichéd situation: the house is in a 'deserted' island instead of a forest (which changes the usual escape tactics); and the killer here isn't a Jason-style stalker, but rather intelligent (genetically enhanced) and rabid dogs.To my surprise, the characters act unexpectedly smart for horror movie victims, actually thinking and coming up with decent/good plans to escape/fend off the dogs (though their dialogue skills are still heavily impaired). However, the usage of real, trained dogs instead of CGI is easily the film's highlight; the best scenes are done by them, with or without the humans.It's a very dumb and idiotic film but also rather fun, and the dogs are definitely the movie's true stars. Not something to look for, but not a bad choice to watch if you haven't anything else to do.