Tim Kincaid, real name Tim Felix, first hit the scene for his 1973 sexploitation film The Female Response. In 1976, Kincaid started making gay porn films under the pseudonym Joe Gage beginning with Kansas City Trucking Co. Up until 1985, Kincaid produced titles like El Paso Wrecking Co, Closed Set, Heatstroke, and Blue Hanky Left. In 1986, Kincaid and producer/wife Cynthia De Paula transitioned into mainstream filmmaking with the women-in-prison film Bad Girls Dormitory. Charles Band was so impressed with Kincaid’s work that he agreed to fund four DTV movies made in NYC. For the first film, shooting would last for ten days on a budget of $80,000 with effects by Ed French. While Kincaid had filmed Mutant Hunt beforehand, this sci-fi horror film would be released first. In 1986, Tim Kincaid’s Breeders hit video store shelves under Charles Band’s Wizard Video line.
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Synopsis
In the seedy streets of Manhattan, various women are being attacked and killed by a strange entity. Detective Dale Andriotti (Lance Lewman) and Dr. Gamble Pace (Teresa Yvon Farley) investigate what’s targeting these women and their connection. They find that the thing these women have in common is that they’re all virgins who’ve been raped. Among the victims are model Karinsa (Frances Raines), nurse Kathleen (LeeAnne Baker), and local girl Donna (Natalie Savage). Almost all of the victims end up catatonic or with some form of amnesia, making the investigation more difficult. Eventually, the women get up from the hospital, fully nude, and wander the streets in a trance. Detective Andriotti and Dr. Pace follow them into the sewers, only to discover something horrific. The sexual invasion is about to begin as the breeders emerge to try and conquer the Earth. Anything this hideous must be stopped from breeding!
Review
Without mincing words, Breeders is pure trash and not even the enjoyable kind of trash that you can laugh at. Sure, it has everything you’d expect in a cheesy B-movie: gratuitous nudity, bad acting, and gross effects, but it’s boring. So much nothing happens that, even at 77 minutes, it feels like a movie that’ll never end. For instance, there’s a sequence where a model strips naked and does yoga for at least three minutes. Other than having an excuse for more nudity, it just drags on and on without advancing the story. Then again, there’s so little story here that you could sum it up in one sentence. Acting-wise, I didn’t expect anything Shakespearian, but I highly doubt any of these people have ever acted before. Everyone’s line delivery is so flat and dull that they might as well be cardboard cutouts.
While I haven’t seen much of Tim Kincaid’s work, I can only imagine they’re all just as poorly made. Not only are all the camera angles basic, but so many scenes drag out you’ll be begging for a cut. The one positive I can give this movie is that the effects, while cheap, are pretty decent. It shouldn’t be surprising since Ed French (Blood Rage, The Dead Come Home, and Sleepaway Camp) did the effects. The best effect shot in the movie is when a character’s chest bursts and reveals an alien monster. Also, the alien creature responsible for the ravaged virgins doesn’t look half bad, though we don’t see it much. That said, I can only recommend this to hardcore fans of Empire Pictures and the most curious viewers. Overall, Breeders should’ve been at least delightfully bad, but instead, it’s just plain bad.
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