Hybrid (2007/RHI/Genius
DVD)
Picture:
D Sound: D Extras: D Feature: D
What do
you get when you take a werewolf movie, but then make it not really a werewolf
movie, then take out all the gore and almost all of the killing? Well first you get that question stuck in your
head, "How does crap like this get funded?" and then of course you
get Hybrid. Based on the weak (even by B-movie standards)
premise in which a blind young man gets an experimental new procedure replacing
his eyes with those of a wolf and subsequently begins to inherit the memories
and personality of the wolf.
Even
putting that aside, based on the cover one can still expect a sweet horror
movie, werewolf style kill-fest. Instead, about an hour into the movie one
starts to wonder if anyone is going to die at all in this movie, and maybe even
get a sneaking suspicion that this is some strange modern-day adaptation of Dances with Wolves, complete with
angsty Native American-White Man race relations. Really the only highlight of this movie is the
chief of the security-guards-turned-SWAT-team bad guys who looks suspiciously
like Dr. Phil.
The
picture and sound quality on this disc, like everything else, are lacking. The picture is in 1.66:1 widescreen format and
has almost no depth to the color. Include with that the reuse of shots we've
seen a hundred times before in movies just like this, poor sound quality, and a
score that makes you want to watch the movie with subtitles on mute, and you
end up with a viewing experience that is almost painful. The fact that there
are no special features on this disc may actually be a blessing.
This
movie may end up on cable somewhere as a time filler or part of a nature and/or
science gone wrong marathon. If so,
that's fine. But I would not, under any circumstances pay money to see this
movie.
- Matthew Carrick
