[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Dying Breed (2008)

Australian backwoods horror in which Saw's Leigh Wannell and three friends who go out into the Tasmanian wilderness to find the supposedly extinct Tasmanian tiger. However what they don't count on is the legend of Alexander Pierce, a real life convict known as "the Pieman" from the 1800's who escaped custody in said wilderness and ate his fellow escapees.

I love shit like this. Out of their depth city folk being stalked, tortured and murdered or kidnapped for breeding purposes by cannibal descendants of near mythical figures. It's brutal and nasty and not the sort of film they seem to make nowadays. A film where even the 'nicer' people you come across are likely to bite your mouth off in bloody and gory fashion.

An actual film about Pierce came out the following year called Van Diemen's Land. That's highly recommended to those who enjoy a slice of cannibalistic survival horror.

It's been years since i watched either film so a rewatch of Dying Breed proved something a little different to my normal classic Halloween horror selections.