A few days ago, I showed you the “Midnight” line-up for the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival – a compelling list of flicks that admittedly, outside of two (THE COTTAGE and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN), I’d never heard of. Of course, that’s likely to change as we approach the fest (which I’ll most likely be attending), and ShockTillYouDrop is kicking it off with some details and pics for DYING BREED.
The Australian flick was inspired by the legends of a 19th-century cannibal and an extinct tiger. This brutal horror-thriller centers on four friends who find out that something—or someone—murderous lurks in the rain-slogged Australian bush.
STYD has now posted a much, much longer synopsis: Tasmania, Australia, the world’s most isolated island. It’s rumoured deep within Tasmania’s wilderness an ancient species known as the Tasmanian Tiger is alive and breeding. Yet modern science refuses to believe such a creature now exists since no witnesses have ever been able to prove it. That is until Zoology student, Nina (Mirrah Foulkes), claims she can breach Tasmania’s impenetrable forests and reveal the tiger’s existence to be true. Driving Nina’s quest is one critical piece of proof: a paw print taken by her sister just before she met with a fatal accident eight years before. But what Nina doesn’t know is how Tasmania became Australia and the world’s most dangerous island in 19th century when the murderous convict Alexander Pearce (aka “The Pieman”) broke out of prison only to eat his fellow escapees. Pearce was hung for cannibalism in 1824, but not before he’d spawned a blood line who inherited his taste for human flesh. Soon Nina and her friends discover that in the wild whilst one species may have died out another has thrived – in the form of the Pieman’s descendants.
When she sets out with her partner, Matt (Leigh Whannell) and his old mate Jack (Nathan Phillips) and his girlfriend Rebecca (Melanie Vallejo), their little expedition encounters the island’s reigning breed, but one who stands on two legs, not four.
The flick, directed by Jody Dwyer, stars Nathan Phillips, Melanie Valejo, Mirrah Foulkes (pictured below), and SAW writer/actor Leigh Whannell.
For a couple more pics, click it HERE. There’s also an official site HERE – although there isn’t much to see just yet. Keep it here for more news on the entire Tribeca ’08 slate!
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