5.8 | / 10 |
Users | 3.5 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
The Manhattan General Hospital has admitted a string of young women who have been raped by something otherworldly. The perpetrator only attacks women who are virgins. Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims, and to try and locate the fiend. Soon the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital by an underground passage where their fate awaits them.
Starring: Frances Raines, Matt Mitler, Lance Lewman, Teresa FarleyHorror | 100% |
Sci-Fi | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
None
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 2.5 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Most Horror movie victims tend to be promiscuous girls who strip naked and do the dirty with some loser of a guy they won't remember in a month. They almost always get their, um, comeuppance when they're, uh, penetrated by some deadly object. Whatever the rhyme or reason or metaphor, it's a pretty, well, hard and fast rule within the genre. But rules are made to be broken. Breeders chucks convention out the window. It's is a silly little 1986 Horror film from Writer/Director Tim Kincaid, whose credits also include gems like Robot Holocaust and Bad Girls Dormitory, both of which also released in '86. In the film, it's virgins that find themselves in danger, virgins who refuse to play before marriage but who obviously have no qualms about stripping down to their nothings for most every scene. Hardly a classic or even a good film but one with plenty of great camp value, Breeders was made for pubescent boys craving blood and boobs without care or concern for anything else the film art has to offer.
Pick the virgin.
Breeders never reaches 1080p excellence, but Olive's Blu-ray presentation is surprisingly solid. Sure, it suffers in places. Contrast is off in the opening nighttime sequence. It's bright and diffuse and characters practically glow. Grain spikes in lower light, blacks brighten, and print wear is obvious though not debilitating. Details are occasionally smooth and practically lifeless; skin textures in the early hospital sequence, for example, show not even a hint of complexity: no pores, no lines, no nothing. For the duration, however, the transfer actually looks quite nice. Grain is moderate and not always consistent, but basic textures, like the brick wall in a photography studio, rougher city exterior accents, and some clothes and skin are adequately revealing and tactile. Colors enjoy decent balance and stability with good primaries throughout. Skin tones don't often stray from the norm. It's not without problems, but for the duration the image looks good for a dated, low-budget movie.
Breeders creeps onto Blu-ray with a paltry, but passable, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 lossless soundtrack. The front left and right speakers create a "phantom center" effect from which there is no stray. Everything sounds crammed straight up the middle. Music is tight and crunchy, presenting with enough clarity to get by but hardly doing either lighter score or heavier Pop beats any justice. Basic city ambience is present but, of course, in no way immersive. Light action effects, like crashes and gooey violence, present well enough. Screams are suitably piercing and don't crack under the track's paltry constraints. Basic dialogue is presented with acceptable clarity and prioritization.
All that's included is the Breeders trailer (1080p, 1:40).
Breeders is a bad movie. There's minimal plot, and what plot there is amounts to nothing more than a vehicle for nudity and gore, the former presented in larger quantities than the latter. Awful acting and minimalist set pieces define the rest of the movie, but even as there's no real redeeming technical qualities here, there's a fun camp factor in play that, combined with the blessedly short runtime and ample T&A, should make this a favorite on bad movie night. Olive Films' Blu-ray release of Breeders features perfectly acceptable video, adequate audio, and no extras of note. Pick it up on a deep sale to watch with friends.
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