For Friday the 13th, a friend and I had to continue the horror movie tradition – we don’t just wait for Halloween, or Friday the 13th!

So, we decided to watch Dying Breed a film made in Australia, and starring Leigh Whannell, the main star of the first Saw film. Leigh may have been the initial drawcard, mostly because it does take a lot for me to watch Australian films; I’m not patriotic at all when it comes to TV or film. But hey, it was Friday the 13th, strangely enough the TV channels weren’t showing the usual C-Grade horror flicks, so we needed a real gross out gorefest to commemorate the night!

What can I say, I shake my head at any horror movie where people willingly go camping to a remote site, somewhere that isn’t set up for tourists, but oh, its pretty, its remote, and isolated. How are they good things?! Crazy.

The main character and her boyfriend, his best larrakin mate and his girflriend go to a remote town in Tasmania, wanting to find the Tasmanian Tiger, and to finish off research that her long lost sister never got to finish, after an accidental drowning.

Then the remote, isolate town cliches occur; bad-teeth baring boat captains, a creepy kid humming along to a strange rhyme, and a pub that nobody would feel welcome in, unless they were already drunk. Anyone with any sense of intuition would just know that being there in general, was a bad idea. They hear the tale of Alexander Pearce, the pieman, a cannibal that escaped from jail and was never heard of again, back in the 50s or so. Oh, this story is retold from a very gory, graphic zombie-chomp of Alexander attacking a policemen. With his mouth. And an evil gleam in his eye, one which the onlooking Tassie tiger enjoys. So the two ‘legends’ co-exist, and then back to present day.. the four characters annoy each other, banter badly with the townspeople, and oh, they see a tiger. Munching ensues.

To say more would entirely spoil the movie; however, there isn’t much more of a plot to describe. The title of the film itself gives away the motivation for the townspeople to get rid of any tourists, and its not quite clear on whether the bite-happy killer is the Pie-Man himself. Leigh makes a decent leading man, and one that endears himself quite easily to the audience, but this material was just not worth his time. Its quite a bit gorier than expected, and the makeup effects are fantastic, but the suspense wasn’t as good as it could have been, and for the most part, it just made me say ‘EWWWWW’ a whole lot.

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