Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2003)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Christian Viel

Writers:

William R. Mariani (story)
Christian Viel (story)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Evil roams the woods of Ireland...

Plot:

Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain...

Plot Keywords:

Celtic Legend | Mutant | Druid | Tourist | Heart Ripped Out

Cast

Bobbie Phillips	...	Karen Douglas
Howard Rosenstein	...	Paul
Ginger Lynn Allen	...	Pandora
Chasey Lain	...	Amy
Taylor Hayes	...	The Breeder
Jenna Jameson	...	Jenny
Richard Grieco	...	Mark
Brandi-Ann Milbradt	...	Shae
Lael Stellick	...	The Shape
Phil Price	...	Steve
Neil Napier	...	Jim
Heidi Hawkins	...	Tara
Gillian Leigh	...	Barbara
Simon Peacock	...	Gary
Alex Chisholm	...	Shape #2 (scenes deleted)

Also Known As:

Samhain (Canada: English title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and gore, sexuality and language.

Runtime:

78 min | 91 min (uncut)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:18 (cut) | USA:R | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

Oasis International

Trivia:

Mark Borchardt was originally cast in the movie and his scenes were shot but not included because of local union problems in Canada.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: An Irish character refers to eating haggis, a Scottish dish.

Quotes:

Barbara: You guys are really starting to give me the creeps. You sound like some Ted Raimi flick or something.

Movie Connections:

References The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Evil Breed: Where aged porn stars go to die.

Two teachers (Bobbie Phillips and Howard Rosenstein) chaperon a school trip to Ireland so five students can study the history of Druids or some such nonsense. A forest-dwelling mutant shows up to kill them all off. The director of this cheap-looking and disposable hunk-o-junk claims the film was ruined by studio tampering, unwanted script rewrites and such, so I'm tempted to cut him a little slack because these things are known to happen. As the film now stands, it's close to being unwatchable.

Truly terrible in every regard; barely (just barely) kept afloat by ample doses of gore and T&A. The acting is some of the worst I've ever seen. Literally everyone in the cast is embarrassing. I don't think that has anything to do with tampering, just a combination of amateur actors, a director that doesn't know how to work with them and awkward dialogue that's impossible to say without coming off like a total tool. Richard Grieco, who looks like he's had either one face-lift too many or too much botox pumped into his face and is starting to look rather inhuman these days, is falsely advertised as being one of the leads when his part is minuscule. The other names in the cast you'll probably only be familiar with if you're an avid porn viewer. Jenna Jameson pops up for a couple of minutes to say a few lines and die. Ginger Lynn has more screen time and delivers one of the worst Irish accents known to man. Not that the guy cast alongside her, whose overacting is unintentionally hilarious, is any better. There are a few other adult actresses on the payroll but their screen time is even smaller than Jennas.

Even worse than the acting is the writing. The storyline is muddled as hell and incomprehensible, the editing is choppy, characters disappear right and left for no reason whatsoever and it is overloaded with annoying, childish and lame post-SCREAM hipster dialogue about how big breasted women always die in horror films and such. Even the friggin theme song at the beginning is screwed up! The vocalist actually MISPRONOUNCES the word "Samhain;" pronouncing it exactly how it's spelling instead of "Sow-en!" For the love of God, do some research people! Some of the gore effects are decent, but you have to be very forgiving of complete technical ineptitude to tolerate this mess.