Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain [DVD] (2003)

A great Horror movie

It arrived earlier than expected and not seen the film yet. But it looks a good zombie movie

The movie starts very "in your face" with plenty of nudity and gore and then settles back for the next 40 minutes or so building atmosphere and a creepy ambience. There are some nicely directed scenes which seem to highlight the creepy house and the dark, mysterious woodland beyond. There are several moments in here which will make you jump and some of the scene cuts are deliberately designed for this effect.However, after all this good build-up the movie falls a bit flat at the end. Once the first murder occurs the rest seem to follow in very quick succession without any apparent reason or motive. There are one or two jokey death scenes which I found a bit forced and staid and the finale was a bit disappointing.It followed the tried and tested rules of the slasher genre but fell apart at the end, in my opinion. The build up was good and it felt quite creepy in my living room for a half an hour or so.Only three stars due to the poorly executed ending and the very dodgy Irish link. Most of the actors kept slipping from fake Irish to Fake Scottish to the "Mary Poppins fake English" that all Americans seem to be able to do. It's funny to start with but gets on your nerves after a while.

a group of american students are on a trip to ireland for halloween to study the local rituals and as is usual bump into something they didn't bargain forwhat this does have going for it is that it seems to have a better budget than most other films of this ilk and subsequently it looks better than mostit builds a creepy atmosphere quite well for the majority of the film and the direction is pretty good and nicely stylishand it does have some very attractive actresses involved toothe downside though is that this has already been done too many times already and we really didn't need this film to be made as it adds nothing new to the mixthe acting is pretty poor and the special effects aren't great eitherwhen the death does begin i found it was when i started to get bored they ruin all the eerie stuff that they had build and manage to completely trash that in 10 minutes of sex and bloodin short it could have been great but they played it safe and gave us something obvious that we have all seen before

Absolute load of rubbish, waste of money. I have seen better on the BBC, going to throw it in the bin its that bad !

THIS MOVIE IS HILARIOUSLY BAD. The cheapest I could find it was here and I am so happy with my purchase, as is my friend who's Christmas present it was xP

I had previously owned a copy. It is a B rate movie, but well worth the watch. I believe it will become a cult within time.

3 stars coz i didnt see the film yet, but although the box says '90 mins' on the back it's actually the 78 min version, and in tiny letters above the word 'samhain' on the front it says 'evil breed the legend of', ie the sanitised version. i did enter amazon product update information a month back but they didnt change the listing yet, unless my copy was a freak which i doubt coz the official running time of EBTLOS is 78 mins.