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\"\"<\/a>Breeder<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IFC\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (disturbing material, violence\/bloody images, sexual content, graphic nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Alex Goyette\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Alex Goyette\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Hannah Parrott\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jaryl Lim\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Release date: October 28, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, Tanaya Beatty, Lillian Doucet-Roche, Isla Spencer, Paige McGarvin, Charlotte Kavanagh, John Murphy, Carmen Moore, Rochelle Greenwood.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Did the protagonist of the new horror film Breeder<\/strong> ever see Misery? Does he really not see the complete lack of common sense in going to the remote home of an obviously disturbed middle-aged woman by himself? She could be a serial killer for all he knows which might be preferable to what she actually has in mind for the poor dope.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Written and directed by Alex Goyette (Expelled), Breeder<\/strong> is one f***ed up movie. In order to illustrate this statement, I\u2019m going to have to tell you what\u2019s going on at the ranch of poodle-breeder Patti (Jones, Glee). If you prefer going in cold to a movie, you\u2019ll want to stop reading now. Don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t give you fair warning.<\/p>\n

\u00a0College student Russell (Doheny, Day of the Dead) has put grad school on hold to work on a project that would save bees from extinction. Unfortunately, nobody wants to fund his project. His own girlfriend, humorless Haley (Beatty, Yellowstone), doesn\u2019t even believe in him. She prefers he avoid the topic when having dinner with her mother. Then he gets a letter, along with a $20,000 check, from Patti inviting him to her place to discuss his project. He\u2019d be a fool not to hear her out.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Right from the start, something is off about the woman. She behaves rather erratically. She lives with five young women, her adopted daughters who act more like a cult than family, all of whom appear to be geniuses. One of them, Ainsley (Phillips, Gen V), takes a special interest in Russell. That\u2019s when Patti tells him the real reason she brought him here. She\u2019s interested in eugenics and wants Russell to mate with Ainsley in order to create a person with superior intelligence. If he takes part, she\u2019ll hand him a blank check and carte blanche. It goes without saying that something more sinister than human breeding is going on here.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Patti could very well be a relation of Annie Wilkes with how she runs her house. She makes it clear her word is law and God help anybody who dares challenge it. As long as he\u2019s staying there, Russell is expected to follow every house rule. He\u2019s also expected to share a bed with Ainsley and have sex with her on demand while Patti watches. Meanwhile, Haley worries when she can\u2019t reach him (Patti confiscates his phone for violating curfew).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Although it\u2019s technically his second film, Breeder<\/strong> is a solid intro into the horror community for Goyette. He directs with confidence throughout. The screenplay could use a little work. He makes bold choices up until the third act when he opts for a conventional finale that feels out of step with everything that came before it. It\u2019s too much of a cop-out. It doesn\u2019t ruin the film; it just weakens the structure a bit.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Breeder<\/strong> is a star-making performance for Dot-Marie Jones. She\u2019s been in plenty of stuff, but this is the one that\u2019s going to make her a recognized name. The former arm-wrestling champ cuts an imposing, intimidating figure as Patti, a disturbed woman who can be motherly and malevolent in the same moment. What she makes Russell do when things don\u2019t go quite as planned is f***ed up. In that role, Doheny projects the right balance of fear and confusion. It\u2019s believable when his survival instinct finally kicks in. Beatty is okay as Haley, an aloof sort who never shows much in the way of emotion. I couldn\u2019t get too good a read on the girl except to say Russell could do better.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Anybody looking for a bloodbath will be disappointed. Breeder<\/strong> isn\u2019t about blood and gore. It has one cool kill scene and that\u2019s it. Goyette makes up for the lack of crimson flow with a creepy, unsettling vibe that permeates the entire movie. It\u2019s not so much about \u201cBOO!\u201d scenes as it getting under the collective skin of the audience. It does that very well. I felt unnerved at times. Oh and Patti isn\u2019t the only scary one under that roof. Wait until you get a load of her daughter Yara (Roche, How to Lose a Popularity Contest). She looks positively evil. She acts it too.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I enjoyed Breeder<\/strong>. It\u2019s a decent scary movie. It\u2019s best watched late at night in a theater filled with horror fans. It\u2019s ideal for Halloween. BTW, no dogs are harmed or killed in Breeder<\/strong>. It\u2019s safe for animal lovers.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breeder (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IFC\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (disturbing material, violence\/bloody images, sexual content, graphic nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Alex Goyette\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Alex Goyette\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Hannah Parrott\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jaryl Lim\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Release date: October 28, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, Tanaya Beatty, Lillian Doucet-Roche, Isla Spencer, Paige McGarvin, Charlotte Kavanagh, John Murphy, Carmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-playing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Breeder-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C930&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15237,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions\/15237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}