A group of American university students travels to Ireland with their teacher to learn about Druids and Celtic Legends. They move into a nice house that is surrounded by a big forest, but the care-taker around where they live is a very strange fellow who warns them, not once, but many times about not to stray from the path or they will die. They of course pay no attention to they guy, and just figure that he's some weird freak. A long time ago, a clan of cannibals lived among where they are and ate people who came there. And even if all of them are supposed to be long gone, unfortuantely for the students and some other people, there's still one disfigured mutant cannibal roaming around the woods, and they will all soon get acquainted with him.
There are of course different reasons why you watch different movies. Sometimes you wanna see a strong drama, sometimes you wanna see comic book influenced action, sometimes a fairytale-like story, while sometimes you just wanna turn your brain off and feast your eyes on nudity and gore. When it comes to Evil Breed, I'm talking about the latter option. The reason why you would wanna see this movie is probably not for that it would have a strong story-line, but for the fact that it has four porn-stars in it plus a helluva lot of gore. Since Evil Breed has a few adult film stars in it, you kinda expect it to have a lot of nudity and sex scenes, but it does not really have that. You'll see some tits, but there's no more than in your average slasher flick. On the other hand, if you wanna see these girls naked, you can always buy their actual porno films.
Don't expect a great story or great acting and you'll probably be fine. Movies like this you have to take of what they truly are, and if you want a smart story, good actors and all the rest, then Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain is totally the wrong choise. I had a few reason why I wanted to see this flick, and they were because I wanted to see porn-stars in a horror film, that I wanted to see gore, and that I wanted to see what the hell Richard Grieco was doing in a flick like this. Other than that, I of course wanted to be entertained as well, so let focus on these things instead of complaining about the lousy acting etc, as that is something that you should expect when it comes to this type of films.
Let's start with Richard Grieco, and to be honest, I'm a big fan of the guy. It's not like he's one of the greatest actors that the world has ever seen or anything close to it, but I like watching him on screen. All I can really say is 'If Looks Could Kill', man what a great movie. Evil Breed actually starts off with him, showing him and his girlfriend out camping in the forest, and suddenly the guy ends up on a roasting spit, while his girlfriend is split in half. Sounds like a great start huh? It sure was.
After that, the movie slows down for quite a while, showing the 'teens' when in Ireland, their teacher and some other characters. Since there isn't too much actual story to the movie itself, all you're really waiting around for is of course to see as many people getting killed as possible, and also how they are killed. Early on in the movie when the group of students are in the kitchen in the house that they're in, the dialogue is taken right outta the movie Scream. I have no idea why they did this, it's not funny and it just feels very stupid. Later on there's some reference to Ted and Sam Raimi, something that feels quite stupid too and it makes no real sense why they had this in the movie.
So the students mess around, and the care-taker warns them about something bad that's gonna happen but no one cares to listen to him. He's a strange guy and his Irish accent sounds kinda made-up, same with Ginger Lynn Allen who also tries to speak Irish. Later on two students go out in the woods for a walk where they meet Jenna Jameson who's looking for her two friend that were out camping in the forest, and that we got to see in the beginning of the film. The two students run into the mutated cannibal and from then on, it's killing time all the way.
Don't be fooled by the cover as Jenna Jameson's in just two scenes of the movie that maybe last for 3 minutes all together. Although, when looking at the extra material on the DVD, the scene when she gets killed is longer than in the movie and much more graphic. The mutant removes her silicon implants which is somewhat funny if you're in the right mood. The pacing is quite good, and even if the acting sucks, it's definitely watchable. The best acting comes from Bobbie Phillips, who plays the students teacher and delivers a good performance. The cannibal look kinda cool, and we get to see some gory scenes, nothing utterly gory that one haven't seen before though, but it's still ok for what it is.
While being far from being great, it's still totally watchable. If you know that the acting's gonna suck and try not to think about it, you'll be fine. Not half as much nudity as expected but it doesn't really matter. One thing I didn't quite get though was the terrible ending which didn't really make sense. And even though I think I know what they wanted to show, it's still not good. It's an ok slasher flick that sometimes is so bad that it's good, and if you keep that in mind, it can be some entertaining 78 minutes of film, but in the end it's neither very good or the least bit memorable.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Samhain
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Christian Viel
WRITING CREDITS: William R. Mariani, Christian Viel
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Jenna Jameson, Ginger Lynn Allen, Richard Grieco
COUNTRY: Canada
RUNTIME: 78 min
RATING: 5/10
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