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Evil Breed: The Legend Of Samhain

2003, Movie, R, 78 mins

Evil Breed: The Legend Of Samhain : Review

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A gory hodge-podge of Gary Sherman's DEATH LINE (1972) and Jack Ketchum's notorious 1980 novel Off Season, this troubled low-budget production — it was re-edited, partly reshot (including a new ending) and retitled after completion — received brief theatrical releases in Canada and the UK before going straight to DVD in the US. America teacher Karen Douglas (Bobbie Phillips) takes a group of college students to Ireland for a field trip. Karen's boyfriend, Paul (Howard Rosenstein), joins them for the week and warns that the caretaker, Gary (Simon Peacock), is an odd one. Gary, who lives nearby with his down-to-Earth sister Pandora (porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, affecting a mortifyingly unconvincing Irish accent), claims to have second sight and warns the visitors to stay out of the woods and not go wandering after dark. A standard issue collection of types — sexed-up couple Jim and Tara (Neil Napier, Heidi Hawkins), cutie-pie Barbara (Gillian Leigh), boorish jock Steve (Phil Price) and goody two-shoes Shae (Brandi-Ann Milbradt) — the kids would rather sit in their isolated cottage and watch horror movies (notably an amateurish parody of HALLOWEEN) than learn about local history and customs, listening only when Karen tells them about Samhein, the Druid harvest festival that preceded Halloween, and the 17th-century Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his degenerate clan (shown in a tacky flashback worthy of Andy Milligan), some of whom she hints may have survived and fled to Ireland. Little do they imagine — despite their horror-movie expertise — that inbred cannibals really do lurk in the woods and are about to attack. From the opening scene, in which a busty tourist and her boyfriend (porn star Chasey Lain and Richard Greico) have sex in the woods and live briefly to regret it, to the gross-out sequence in which a victim's intestines are hauled out through his rear and used to strangle him, writer-producer-director Christian Viel's bloody, formulaic gore picture aims low and delivers neither thrills or titillation, the presence of four well-known porn actresses notwithstanding. The haggard, prominently-billed Jenna Jameson appears in a mere two scenes — one involving her graphic disembowelment — and Taylor Hayes in just one, as a brutalized victim of the cannibal clan. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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