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A Half-Caste is a Human/Leopard hybrid believed to feast on unsuspecting travelers, but after Bobby is found soaked in blood, the police think that he murdered his friends. It becomes a race against time to convince the cops of his innocence, before the creature comes back to finish off what he started.
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Review by Chad
Added: March 12, 2007
The Blair Witch Project was a groundbreaking film that proved to the world that sometimes, taking a chance and doing things completely different pays off. Who'd have ever thought that a black-and-white film that was shot for less than my annual salary, featured amateur actors, and shown completely through the lens of a single camera would have found an audience - nonetheless get a theatrical run, make back $240 million dollars and garner a cult following? Somewhere, a guy named Sebastian Apodaca saw this success and decided to cash in with his own documentary-styled horror film. The results were less than stellar.
The storyline focuses on the half-caste, an African legend that is something akin to what we know as the werewolf; the only difference is that this beast is half-leopard instead of half-wolf. Note that this is in direct contradiction to the true meaning of half-caste (a person of mixed race), but this is what the film tells us and thus, that's what it is for the purpose of this review. A group of California yuppies hear about this and decide that it would be the perfect subject for a film, so they all fly down to Africa, set up a bunch of webcams, and wait... and wait... and wait some more. It takes about seventy minutes (running time) for anything to happen, so the vast majority of the film is spent watching these people chat and get high off of elephant shit (sadly, I'm serious).
I wanted to like this film, I really did. I loved the documentary-horror style of Blair Witch and I can't recall too many films dealing with wereleopards, so on the surface, this was a mixture of something I really enjoyed and something fairly new in the world of horror. However, thanks to a bad script coupled with worse actors and direction that comes straight from the best-selling "Don't Make Your Own Damn Movie", the elephant shit wasn't the only thing crappy about this release.
Honestly, I don't have a problem with a film that takes some time to get going: Blair Witch simply showed those kids running around in the woods for the vast majority of the running time, but that movie still managed to get a fair amount of praise out of me. The same thing happens here, but the difference is that these cast members couldn't act like they were in pain in a snuff film; in fact, instead of connecting with them as I'm sure we were supposed to, I found myself praying for the wereleopard to show up quick and slaughter the whole lot of them. I even could have dealt with this atrocious acting had the film had something - anything - else going for it, but sadly, this was a textbook example of how to create one of the most boring movies known to man.
I won't go into too much detail about the horrible music featured throughout this movie, as this is a film review and not a music review. However, who in their right mind could have thought that blending together a mixture of nu-metal and white-boy rap would have added layers of tension to this storyline? Perhaps the director owed somebody a favor and put together the soundtrack with that in mind, but otherwise, I simply can't fathom why this music wound up in here. The result is a number of scenes which probably wouldn't have went anywhere anyway thanks to the aforementioned flaws, but turned out to be painful to listen to in addition to being painful to watch.
Things eventually pick up towards the end and we find ourselves with a slightly below-average montage of action sequences, but by then, it's far too late to save the film. I received my copy of this movie for free (the perks of running a review site), and yet, I still feel ripped off after sitting through it. 1/10.
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