Hybrid (2007)

Hybrid did have a good idea going for it, but I was also dubious because it was a SyFy movie. Sadly, despite this idea my dubious expectations of Hybrid proved to be correct. While not among SyFy's worst or among the worst movies I've ever seen, Hybrid still managed to be a terrible movie. There are more cheaper-looking films out there, but that doesn't excuse Hybrid in any way. The camera work is choppy and spends too much often on someone or something, while the effects are very artificial. The music is not eerie at all, if anything it is obviously placed and too over-bearing, while the dialogue is stilted, the killings lacking suspense or genuine horror and the storytelling unsurprising and uninteresting. Not to mention with one too many ridiculous moments, the sequences with the baboons in the lab, the military actually leaving despite the hero character escaping through an open window(didn't know the military were this stupid) and the firing of the guns at nothing there were bad enough and the ending was contrived, but even worse was the idea of a man escaping the building after having wolf eyes, assaulting several people, walking around shirtless, biting a doctor's throat and killing a squad who try to apprehend him and then trying to make us think he is good when actually he is a psychopath. The characters have no likability or depth to them, and the acting especially from Tinsel Korey, who is another actress who looks beautiful but can't act. Cory Monteith is a little better, but doesn't pose enough of a threat. I also think for somebody coming out an operation that he looked too perfect. Overall, a big mess despite its initial potential. 2/10 Bethany Cox

It's almost a mission of mine to seek the worst film in the world, maybe to find one worse than the absolutely disgusting and so far not beaten Freddy Got Fingered, obviously this TV movie didn't beat it, but it certainly a bad one. Basically Dr. Andrea Hewlitt (Justine Bateman) and other scientists in a facility have been looking into ways to increase the potential of animals, and they have found a way to better the vision of some primates when they have gone blind with the eyes of wolves. They are hoping to really prove the experiment works by finding a human to have the same procedure, and after he is blinded in an explosion, security dispatcher Aaron Scates (Cory Monteith) is the perfect candidate. So he is brought in to bring his vision back with this extraordinary-though controversial-medical breakthrough with the help of a wolf who happens to be brought in as well, despite concern by museum curator Lydia Armstrong (Tinsel Korey). So when he wakes, Aaron is pleased to have his vision back through these new yellow wolf eyes, but he also has the advantage of seeing in the dark. Soon enough though more developments come when he gains a high sense of hearing, he has horrible visions of wolves in the woods attacking and other things, and then he starts growling, and targeting people as if they were prey. But worse comes when his personality is diminishing all together, to the point when he has become a full agitated wolf-human hybrid with a taste for raw meat, and tearing into it. Lydia however understands how this has happened, being a human-hybrid herself, but she has channelled any animal like instincts via her shaman friend Claude Robertson (Pocahontas' Gordon Tootoosis). Despite an animal bond and mating like thing between Lydia and Aaron, and some rite-of-passage stuff with Claude, Aaron can't help his animalistic side coming out very aggressively, and Dr. Hewitt's colleagues are determined to hunt him down like the creature has has become. Also starring Brandon Jay McLaren as Ashmore, Aaron Hughes as Wilcox and Brett Sorensen as Deaver. I can see the connection the critics say there is to a B-movie theme, I found it similar to the theme in the Japanese film The Eye, but with the new additions to the body changing you into something else. However, this film completely fails to scare you, the dialogue is awful, the acting is dreadful, the action - if that's what you can call it - is pretty boring, I would have be out of my head to watch this abysmal science-fiction horror again, which I never will do. Poor!

This movie has some fatal flaws in it, how someone could walk through an open back door of a highly secure medical facility is unbelievable. Then this same person just walks around the facility and enters the Dr.'s office, is just bad writing or bad editing. Very very very predictable movie. I am not sure how this film got made, except it is was filmed in Canada, and probably received a government grant. I must say the person playing Aaron, Cory Monteith, did a good job.Unless you are really bored and there is nothing else to watch on television then I would say it will kill some time, but otherwise, it is a movie no actor would want on their resume.

I liked it.I think it's rather important to attempt to look out through the eyes of other species on the planet, many of which we slaughter, imprison and use in painful experiments.If the movie is low budget, I think the importance of the message can be taken into consideration.Running about with wolves looks pretty pleasant to those of us who work hunched over a desk much of the time. Running through the woods. Yeah.Wolves are cool, and they help ecosystems in countless ways, such as reducing predators that overgraze plant species in which birds nest. Prey carcases increase insects which feed small mammals including beaver which affect the water systems that support frogs, the fish that sustain bears and so forth.The lead was personable, the love interest attractive with her heart in the right place, and burning a braid of sweet grass with a medicine man is a fine thing. I liked the touches of light hearted humor.The movie was also about violence. The wolves' violence was to defend themselves, family and offspring. Bison were killed for survival. The shooters' killings, by contrast seemed purposeless. They seemed out of touch with nature outside and within themselves. Another way of saying that corporate people need to get back to what's important and reconnect with the natural world.I'd like to see the sci fi channel air more movies like this. Rather than feeling down and empty after watching nonsensical gore following a lot of hype which mainly serves to keep more of our eyes glazed on advertisers' shiny mirages no matter how good the special effects can be, we can go back to our lives feeling far better and even a bit optimistic. I think that's what entertainment is for.