A BREED APART

(director/writer: Griff Furst/Nathan Furst; screenwriters: Bob Conte, Peter Wortmann; cinematographer: Jon Keng; music: Britlin Lee Furst; cast: Grace Caroline Currey (Violet), Virginia Gardner (Thalia), Hayden Panettiere (Hayden Hurst), Riele Downs (Queen), Zak Steiner (Collins), Page Kennedy (Big Farmer Jay), Troy Gentile (Mason Kelly), Joey Bragg (Vince Vertura), Lourdes Chavez (Maria), Isaac Flores (Marco), Javier Melgar Santoveña (Hector); Runtime: 99; MPAA Rating: R; producers: Adan Champ, Garrett Andrew Ahrens, Griff Furst; Curmudgeon Films/VOD; 2025)

“Sinks to an even lower level than the original.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

A follow-up to the Wes Craven 2006 horror film “The Breed.” It’s sloppily directed by Griff and Nick Furst, the Furst Brothers, who co-write it with Bob Conte and Peter Wortmann. This version sinks to an even lower level than the original.

It’s set fifteen years later than the original, when the social media cynic Violet (Grace Caroline Currey) accepts from a wealthy social media influencer an invite to the same private unnamed Latin American island where a competition was held to gain ownership of the island that had man-eating dogs (CGI created) kill all the contestants. 

The film opens on a movie set, where there are German Shepherds. A bat bites one of the dogs, which supposedly turns all of them violently aggressive. They maul to death the dog trainers, which forces the production to shut down. Hayden Hurst (Hayden Panettiere) appears briefly in the early scene as an actress in the film that goes awry, and then disappears until returning briefly in a later scene.

Fifteen years after the dog killings, the sleazebag TV producer Vincent (Joey Bragg) informs 5 other celebrated social media folks that if they catch the missing killer dogs on the island and film it, the one who catches the most dogs will own the island. It’s never explained how Vincent holds the deed to the private island.

Those who accept the invite are subject to being mauled to death by the vicious dogs.

The film’s main character Violet works at a low-paying job and does a gimmicky podcast with her brother Collins (Zak Steiner). She can’t stand the social media influencers and their constant need to be liked.

I found the film to be unpleasant, not funny and in poor taste.

REVIEWED ON 6/2/2025  GRADE: C-
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