{"id":41393,"date":"2026-03-31T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41393"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:17","slug":"the-breed-2001-starring-adrian-paul-bokeem-woodbine-and-bai-ling-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41393","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Breed&#8221; (2001) starring Adrian Paul, Bokeem Woodbine and Bai Ling \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z033126zview_thebreed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Breed <\/strong><\/em>(2001)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Michael Oblowitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Christos N. Gage, Ruth Fletcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Adrian Paul, Bokeem Woodbine, Bai Ling, James Booth, Ming Lo, Paul Collins, Reed Diamond, John Durbin, Zen Gesner <\/strong>and <strong>William Hootkins<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Vampires Live Amongst Us<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another time.\u00a0 Another place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Detective Stephen Grant&#8217;s partner is killed when the two are following leads on a recent series of bizarre murders.\u00a0 The murderer, a tale pale man, is shot several times to no effect.\u00a0 The killer escapes by climbing up a sheer building wall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Detective Grant files his report, he is brought in for a secret meeting.\u00a0 Grant learns that the killer is a vampire.\u00a0 Although reluctant to believe, Grant is introduced to his new partner, Detective Aaron Gray.\u00a0 Detective Gray is also a vampire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grant learns that vampires live among us.\u00a0 Most want to live among humans in peace.\u00a0 To that end, they have made themselves known\u00a0 to government leaders.\u00a0 However a minority of vampires don&#8217;t trust humans.\u00a0 The murderer is one of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grant and Gray are assigned to track down the serial killing vampire and put an end to him.\u00a0 What Grant and Gray don&#8217;t know is that a conspiracy to wipe-out all vampires is being put in place by humans distrustful of the vampires&#8217; intent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neither the humans plotting to kill all vampires nor the vampires distrustful of humans want Detectives Grant and Gray to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>That makes them expendable.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like the premise and setting of the film.\u00a0 Vampires living among us and wanting a peaceful integration while some vampires and humans are fearful of that seems logical.\u00a0 Having the film take place in a recognizable but slightly different future worked for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Breed<\/em> is an interesting mash-up of a buddy movies, conspiracy films, horror, a touch of romance, sci-fi, and alternate reality that just misses the mark for being better than good.\u00a0 But good isn&#8217;t bad.\u00a0 I enjoyed <em>The Breed<\/em>, but hoped it would be better.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Breed <\/strong><\/em>(2001) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z033126zview_thebreed2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breed (2001) Director: Michael Oblowitz Screenplay: Christos N. 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