Fandom: Horror Movie Month! Dying Breed
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escritoireazulIt's October! October is my favorite month of the year! Though it's not really got off to a fabulous start, I am doing what I normally do to celebrate it and that is to devour all the cheesy horror movies/books/shows and Halloween episodes of my favorite tv programs that I can.
Tonight's offering is Dying Breed about four hikers' quest for a rare tiger in the forests of Tasmania. So far it has all sorts of thing I love: hikers experiencing horror, tigers which may be more than they seem, friends and strangers headed into the wilderness together, and gorgeous accents.
(Because I like to multitask, while watching and making reaction notes, I'm also reading The Blooding by Patricia Windsor, a werewolf novel for teens.)
These made for tv movies Sci Fi shows are fantastic places to find queer subtext between the characters and possible poly situations.
My favorite character so far is Nina, whose sister drowned in the bush eight years before. The sister photographed a paw print before she died.
There's also Matt, Nina's partner; Matt's friend, Jack, with whom he grew up and "used to do everything together," yes, this is where I was seeing the poly and the slash; and Jack's girlfriend, Rebecca, who is already quite friendly with Nina. Good times.
I love horror stories where characters piss in the woods. Not in a fetish way, just the idea that first, it's a pain in the ass to pee in the wilderness and second, it can be really frightening to be off by yourself and third, horror movies rarely deal with it.
Man, the Simple Simon and the Pieman thing is seriously creepy when a feral little kid is chanting it.
Gorgeous dark, forbidding forest and gray clouds.
Jack is proving himself to be an asshole already and I hope he gets eaten.
Apparently the township is named "Sarah" which makes me grin.
I'm pretty sure this is going to go more to cannibalistic madmen than an actual monster tiger, which makes me sad. Cannibals aren't my preferred bad guy.
Hmmm. They didn't fully close the tarp of the truck. In no way will that lead to something hiding under it or anything, I'm sure.
Gratuitous bathing scene.
Nina is fantastically obsessed with finding out what happened to her sister. I mean, yeah, drowned, tiger print photo, whatever, she wants to know more. She carries around newspaper articles about all the hikers who have disappeared in the woods. This is one of my favorite kinds of stories, minus the damn cannibalistic madmen. Who apparently want to breed, from the way they were acting with Nina and Rebecca.
Rebecca, by the way, is now also having wild slightly violent sex in the bathroom with Jack and then the lights went off and someone was watching them. Jack is about to try to beat the shit out of a local and I'm not sure why he thinks is a good idea. Dumbass. I'm pretty sure you're going to pay for beating up a local. He also bound him to a fense with barbed wire, and now there's something coming through the woods to him, something he talked to while fleeing in fear once he got free.
Now Nina and Rebecca are having girl bonding time in bed. It's sweet and adorable. They're both lovely women and I like that they're getting to be friends.
Yay! Finally we're off into the wilderness on the boat! Except that Nina had to go back to the truck to get her camera bag and suddenly the tarp is actually closed. What's lurking in there? And now she's sneaking around Sarah watching the barkeep kill puppies because the parents were brother and sister and they failed to keep them apart. Subtle. And disgusting.
The creepy little girl with the rhyme has decided she wants to be friends with Nina. Extra creepy.
They're already lost! Fantastic! They're also having trouble reading the map, the things they're seeing aren't on the map. It's delightfully creepy. This is a very pretty movie, at least the scenery. Gorgeous. Dark water and gray sky and misty mountains and black trees sharp against the gray. It reminds me a lot of the Pacific Northwest and makes me want to go back.
Crossbow of doom. DOOM. I'm shocked that Nina is surprised that Jack brought a weapon. Whether you're there to study wildlife or not, safety can't hurt. Just in case.
Oh, yes, great plan, we should all go explore the creepy cave. Stupid boys.
Nina and her camera in the middle of the wild trees is really quite lovely. Also her taking samples and checking trees for scratch marks and being scientific. She's amazing. And also almost fell into a cave which reminds me a lot of The Descent and now I kinda want to watch it. Possibly also write a crazy crossover. Which I won't, but still.
Pretty storm coming in which will likely lead to shenanigans.
Man, Jack is kind of badass with his rabbit killing and skinning skills.
Rebecca is adorable, being grossed out by Jack's rabbit and Nina collecting crap in her search for the tiger.
Nina keeps having these flashbacks to her sister (which, what? Is Nina psychic?) that turn into dreams of the people living in Sarah. So. Weird.
And now, what, the little girl disappeared? I'm confused - OH MY GOD. The little girl is Nina's sister's baby. NO WONDER SHE WANTS TO BE FRIENDS WITH NINA!
Tiger outside their little cave of sleep! No pictures, though, not yet, and now they're going after it in the dark, which seems like a great idea considering Rebecca has no clue how to handle herself in the wilderness in the dark and Jack pretty much wants to hunt, not photograph. The woods are gorgeous and creepy, though.
The creepy little girl found Rebecca. And now some old man bit her fingers (possibly one of them off) and is raping her. I am so tired of stories about raping women. So very, very tired.
Also, Rebecca is dead now. Good times. (Well, she might just be unconscious, but since he just bit out her tongue/off her lower lip without her making any noise, my guess is dead.
Creepy kid is REALLY CREEPY in the cave.
Ha I was right! The kid is Nina's niece!
And the creepy things she's been playing with are her mother's teeth!
Rebecca and Jack have both disappeared. Two down, two to go.
Time passes very quickly around here. Now some of the guys from Sarah are supposedly helping them search for Rebecca and Jack, but Nina is also questioning them about her sister. When a bitch is in heat she'll go out of her way to mate? The men of Sarah are misogynistic shits.
Old mining tunnels of doom for the win. Except nothing much happened in the tunnel.
Now that they're dealing with the cannibal in the woods (apparently there's only one? And not the whole town of Sarah, like I thought. I find this weird. But anyway), the movie's gotten boring. Plus it's not nearly so creepy in the daylight.
Oh, blood dripping from above, so overdone and yet still sometimes creepy and disgusting.
So they can show a man biting pieces off a woman but had to blur dead Rebecca's bare butt? OMG, USA, so messed up with what you consider suitable and unsuitable!
Also frustrating is that competent Nina is now panicking until she's useless and a danger and then walks back into the place where people are getting killed. You used to be so smart.
Oh, good times, now two of them are going to rape her and even though she's fighting back, she'll likely need to be rescued by Matt or she'll end up dead or she'll end up the breeding partner of cannibals. Good times. Run, Nina, run. Go leap off the same cliff your sister did, which led to her drowning.
And of course she falls down as she's running. Of course.
Ooh, train tracks. Showdown on the tracks over the bridge? No, that would never happen. /sarcasm
Man, it sure would be nice if you had guns. (I know, typical American response.)
Yeah, Nina, just like her sister, jumped to escape, preferring death to being a broodmare for cannibals.
DUDE. The bartender that was killing the puppies just killed the cannibal in the woods and said it should have been done when he was a pup. You couldn't have done that yesterday, bartender woman?
And then she slit her own throat? WHAT? WHY? WTF?
Why is there always one dude who survives in modern horror movies? And what was that which turned on when they threw the stuff into the back of the police mobile?
Wait, what? Did Matt drink something that was drugged? I guess so, but that's not at all how it came across, when he was sitting in the truck. It far more looked like he had been stabbed through the seat.
So Nina's capture, bound, bloody, and being raped a lot and Matt is captured, drugged, bloody, bound, and, what - being eaten by the tiger? Being raped by a woman?
Oh, being eaten by the creepy little girl. FREAKY. Disgusting.
Cannibal movies have such shitty endings usually. I prefer my villains to be monsters.
Also, there's some text about how many disappearances and the legen this was based on, but it's incredibly tiny. What the hell?
The thing tossed into the back of the cop car was a mobile phone, Rebecca's, I think, and there's an image on it, but I can't make out what's in it. So far, my research hasn't turned up anyone talking about it online either. I'm guessing maybe it was supposed to be a paw print or maybe a bit of the tiger, but I don't know for sure.
I really like the movie poster here.
Basically I enjoyed this a lot better than Wolf Creek but only because it was much less torture porn. The first half of the movie is a lot of fun, because quite a bit of it is the characters interacting against a gorgeous background, but the ending sucked. Rogue was better.
Is Trick or Treat a werewolf movie? I didn't think it was, but the advertisement for it on DVD made it look like one.
Tonight's offering is Dying Breed about four hikers' quest for a rare tiger in the forests of Tasmania. So far it has all sorts of thing I love: hikers experiencing horror, tigers which may be more than they seem, friends and strangers headed into the wilderness together, and gorgeous accents.
(Because I like to multitask, while watching and making reaction notes, I'm also reading The Blooding by Patricia Windsor, a werewolf novel for teens.)
These made for tv movies Sci Fi shows are fantastic places to find queer subtext between the characters and possible poly situations.
My favorite character so far is Nina, whose sister drowned in the bush eight years before. The sister photographed a paw print before she died.
There's also Matt, Nina's partner; Matt's friend, Jack, with whom he grew up and "used to do everything together," yes, this is where I was seeing the poly and the slash; and Jack's girlfriend, Rebecca, who is already quite friendly with Nina. Good times.
I love horror stories where characters piss in the woods. Not in a fetish way, just the idea that first, it's a pain in the ass to pee in the wilderness and second, it can be really frightening to be off by yourself and third, horror movies rarely deal with it.
Man, the Simple Simon and the Pieman thing is seriously creepy when a feral little kid is chanting it.
Gorgeous dark, forbidding forest and gray clouds.
Jack is proving himself to be an asshole already and I hope he gets eaten.
Apparently the township is named "Sarah" which makes me grin.
I'm pretty sure this is going to go more to cannibalistic madmen than an actual monster tiger, which makes me sad. Cannibals aren't my preferred bad guy.
Hmmm. They didn't fully close the tarp of the truck. In no way will that lead to something hiding under it or anything, I'm sure.
Gratuitous bathing scene.
Nina is fantastically obsessed with finding out what happened to her sister. I mean, yeah, drowned, tiger print photo, whatever, she wants to know more. She carries around newspaper articles about all the hikers who have disappeared in the woods. This is one of my favorite kinds of stories, minus the damn cannibalistic madmen. Who apparently want to breed, from the way they were acting with Nina and Rebecca.
Rebecca, by the way, is now also having wild slightly violent sex in the bathroom with Jack and then the lights went off and someone was watching them. Jack is about to try to beat the shit out of a local and I'm not sure why he thinks is a good idea. Dumbass. I'm pretty sure you're going to pay for beating up a local. He also bound him to a fense with barbed wire, and now there's something coming through the woods to him, something he talked to while fleeing in fear once he got free.
Now Nina and Rebecca are having girl bonding time in bed. It's sweet and adorable. They're both lovely women and I like that they're getting to be friends.
Yay! Finally we're off into the wilderness on the boat! Except that Nina had to go back to the truck to get her camera bag and suddenly the tarp is actually closed. What's lurking in there? And now she's sneaking around Sarah watching the barkeep kill puppies because the parents were brother and sister and they failed to keep them apart. Subtle. And disgusting.
The creepy little girl with the rhyme has decided she wants to be friends with Nina. Extra creepy.
They're already lost! Fantastic! They're also having trouble reading the map, the things they're seeing aren't on the map. It's delightfully creepy. This is a very pretty movie, at least the scenery. Gorgeous. Dark water and gray sky and misty mountains and black trees sharp against the gray. It reminds me a lot of the Pacific Northwest and makes me want to go back.
Crossbow of doom. DOOM. I'm shocked that Nina is surprised that Jack brought a weapon. Whether you're there to study wildlife or not, safety can't hurt. Just in case.
Oh, yes, great plan, we should all go explore the creepy cave. Stupid boys.
Nina and her camera in the middle of the wild trees is really quite lovely. Also her taking samples and checking trees for scratch marks and being scientific. She's amazing. And also almost fell into a cave which reminds me a lot of The Descent and now I kinda want to watch it. Possibly also write a crazy crossover. Which I won't, but still.
Pretty storm coming in which will likely lead to shenanigans.
Man, Jack is kind of badass with his rabbit killing and skinning skills.
Rebecca is adorable, being grossed out by Jack's rabbit and Nina collecting crap in her search for the tiger.
Nina keeps having these flashbacks to her sister (which, what? Is Nina psychic?) that turn into dreams of the people living in Sarah. So. Weird.
And now, what, the little girl disappeared? I'm confused - OH MY GOD. The little girl is Nina's sister's baby. NO WONDER SHE WANTS TO BE FRIENDS WITH NINA!
Tiger outside their little cave of sleep! No pictures, though, not yet, and now they're going after it in the dark, which seems like a great idea considering Rebecca has no clue how to handle herself in the wilderness in the dark and Jack pretty much wants to hunt, not photograph. The woods are gorgeous and creepy, though.
The creepy little girl found Rebecca. And now some old man bit her fingers (possibly one of them off) and is raping her. I am so tired of stories about raping women. So very, very tired.
Also, Rebecca is dead now. Good times. (Well, she might just be unconscious, but since he just bit out her tongue/off her lower lip without her making any noise, my guess is dead.
Creepy kid is REALLY CREEPY in the cave.
Ha I was right! The kid is Nina's niece!
And the creepy things she's been playing with are her mother's teeth!
Rebecca and Jack have both disappeared. Two down, two to go.
Time passes very quickly around here. Now some of the guys from Sarah are supposedly helping them search for Rebecca and Jack, but Nina is also questioning them about her sister. When a bitch is in heat she'll go out of her way to mate? The men of Sarah are misogynistic shits.
Old mining tunnels of doom for the win. Except nothing much happened in the tunnel.
Now that they're dealing with the cannibal in the woods (apparently there's only one? And not the whole town of Sarah, like I thought. I find this weird. But anyway), the movie's gotten boring. Plus it's not nearly so creepy in the daylight.
Oh, blood dripping from above, so overdone and yet still sometimes creepy and disgusting.
So they can show a man biting pieces off a woman but had to blur dead Rebecca's bare butt? OMG, USA, so messed up with what you consider suitable and unsuitable!
Also frustrating is that competent Nina is now panicking until she's useless and a danger and then walks back into the place where people are getting killed. You used to be so smart.
Oh, good times, now two of them are going to rape her and even though she's fighting back, she'll likely need to be rescued by Matt or she'll end up dead or she'll end up the breeding partner of cannibals. Good times. Run, Nina, run. Go leap off the same cliff your sister did, which led to her drowning.
And of course she falls down as she's running. Of course.
Ooh, train tracks. Showdown on the tracks over the bridge? No, that would never happen. /sarcasm
Man, it sure would be nice if you had guns. (I know, typical American response.)
Yeah, Nina, just like her sister, jumped to escape, preferring death to being a broodmare for cannibals.
DUDE. The bartender that was killing the puppies just killed the cannibal in the woods and said it should have been done when he was a pup. You couldn't have done that yesterday, bartender woman?
And then she slit her own throat? WHAT? WHY? WTF?
Why is there always one dude who survives in modern horror movies? And what was that which turned on when they threw the stuff into the back of the police mobile?
Wait, what? Did Matt drink something that was drugged? I guess so, but that's not at all how it came across, when he was sitting in the truck. It far more looked like he had been stabbed through the seat.
So Nina's capture, bound, bloody, and being raped a lot and Matt is captured, drugged, bloody, bound, and, what - being eaten by the tiger? Being raped by a woman?
Oh, being eaten by the creepy little girl. FREAKY. Disgusting.
Cannibal movies have such shitty endings usually. I prefer my villains to be monsters.
Also, there's some text about how many disappearances and the legen this was based on, but it's incredibly tiny. What the hell?
The thing tossed into the back of the cop car was a mobile phone, Rebecca's, I think, and there's an image on it, but I can't make out what's in it. So far, my research hasn't turned up anyone talking about it online either. I'm guessing maybe it was supposed to be a paw print or maybe a bit of the tiger, but I don't know for sure.
I really like the movie poster here.
Basically I enjoyed this a lot better than Wolf Creek but only because it was much less torture porn. The first half of the movie is a lot of fun, because quite a bit of it is the characters interacting against a gorgeous background, but the ending sucked. Rogue was better.
Is Trick or Treat a werewolf movie? I didn't think it was, but the advertisement for it on DVD made it look like one.
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