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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peña made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Breed, The

Story
Five friends head to an exotic island for the weekend to have some fun and relaxation, but the good times are quickly interrupted when one of the friends is attacked by a vicious dog. It doesn't take long before the group discovers that the whole place is infested with these murderous animals and now they have to try and find a way to get off the island.

Comments
The Breed is a Wes Craven produced horror film from First Look Entertainment and it's hard to see how the horror master could put his name on this pile of crap. Vicious killer dogs? Geeze-louise! The film was nothing but yet another one of those clichéd horror movies that carried some stupid dialogue that made no sense every here and there and that delivered a few "scares" that you could see coming from miles away. Nowadays it pretty much seems like the bigger labels are never too concerned about having a good story anymore. Just stuff a bunch of obnoxious young people in the film, add a few "scary" action scenes here and there to keep the audience's interest up and don't forget to add a bunch of sadistic killings as well..because we all know that that's the only thing horror fans really care about these days. To hell with a good and genuine story, as long as there are a few brutal gory scenes everyone will be happy for sure. Yeah right.

The Breed The Breed

The movie plays out kinda like a billion of other lousy horror films that we've all seen before. Actually, we've seen this so many times before that you just wanna break down and cry or rather kick the film out the window when having to sit through it yet again. It goes something like this: We're introduced to some young people, often teens, but sometimes a tad bit older. They're all happy and are goofing around and you couldn't care less for who is who and what the hell they're saying because you'll only get dumber if you listen to them. Something happens and you're supposed to feel bad for them and at the same time be a bit frightened of what it is that's going on. Then turn up the horror and action a notch and add some brutal killings and now we're having fun right? After a while of people dying and horrific scenes, we're suddenly introduced to some emotional scene involving one or two of the characters that are a little deeper than the rest of the bunch. Now we're supposed to feel something for them as they solve the mystery or make it out from whatever kind of place alive and then the credits starts to roll. Add some nu-metal crap to that and you got yourself one helluva intelligent movie.

My criticism may sound a bit harsh, but the fact is that I watch so many horror films every week and I'm getting a bit sick of watching the same stuff over and over again. That's why you have to keep getting back to all the old favorites and re-watch them once in a while to be able to sit through a lot of the new ones. The Breed was not all bad though and featured a couple of scenes that were quite entertaining. Another thing it had going for it was that it moved at a fast pace, stuff happened all the way throughout, but the problem though was that everything that happened was just way too predictable. I could see a lot of people liking The Breed though, because a lot of folks doesn't have such high demands when it comes to horror, they simply just want to be entertained and I think that The Breed has that going for it. But personally, I need more..much more.

Final Comments
Being too predictable, featuring uninteresting characters and scary dogs didn't really make for a good time. It is fast-paced though and has quite a few action scenes to offer and if you just want to be entertained for a while, then this might still be your cup of tea..or your headache.

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Breed, The

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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Mastandrea
WRITING CREDITS: Robert Conte, Peter Martin Wortmann
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Lively, Taryn Manning
COUNTRY: Germany, South Africa, USA
RUNTIME: 87 min

RATING: 3/10

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