DYING BREED [2008]

Dying Breed is a gruesome little Australian horror film from director Jody Dwyer that follows 4 tourists in search of the supposedly extinct Tasmanian Tiger and happen to stumble upon the history of notorious cannibal Alexander Pearce.
It starts off a bit slow but when it finally picks up you realize it was intentional as the horror of the mysteries begin to unravel.  It never really does anything we haven't seen a million times before but the dreary atmosphere of the backwoods of Tasmania makes for a beautiful and frightening effective backdrop.  My biggest complaint is how many times I found myself yelling at the characters "STOP FUCKING SPLITTING UP!"  In the end, I found it to be a so-so crowd pleaser that could have tried just a bit more.

3 bunny heads in a bowl out of 5

CHERNOBYL DIARIES [2012]

Chernobyl Diaries had the haunting premise, setting and atmosphere to be a truly frightening horror film and it breaks my heart to see it completely waste that wonderful opportunity.  

Written by Paranormal Activitiy's Oren Pali and 2 guys who usually write for The Asylum films should have tipped me off how "bleh" this was going to be.  The characters are so paper thin it's hard to hate or like them when they get in these situations void of any suspense or scares.   

Yawn.  Longest 86 minutes ever.

1 fucking radioactive bear from Hell out of 5