The Breeding - Lilith Likes to Watch Monster Lover May

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Title: The Breeding
Year: 2017

Starring: Dolly Leigh, Ingrid Mouth, Lumpy The Monster

Director: Ingrid Mouth

Synopsis: Best friends Ingrid and Dolly take a detour into an abandoned building on their way home, never expecting the gut wrenching terror that waits for them inside. Although seemingly just a make out spot for disenfranchised troublemakers, the building has been inhabited by something dark, drooling, and sinister. Something covered in tentacles, and dripping strange, pungent aphrodisiac fluids from the walls and ceilings, which lure it's sapphic prey to their ultimate pleasure, before their eventual doom. - via PinkLabel.tv

Lilith's Notes: It's time once again for Monster Lover May!

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"I think we should leave right now."

Like a porn parody Doctor Frankenstein I throw my head back and I scream yes, YES! Because it’s once again time for Monster Lover May where we explore the crevices of every dirty monster movie we can find.

Aren’t we all just so blessed to be here for the next four weeks?

Now, we begin with… A low point, unfortunately.

The Breeding is a film about two horny ladies (played by Dolly Leigh and Ingrid Mouth) who go into an abandoned building to explore and fuck. Dolly is very reluctant, but Ingrid is feeling adventurous.

Soon, a monster finds them and scandalous, tenticley torture ensues.

The Breeding was made in 2017, three full years before Hentaied hit the scene and five years before Parasited debuted.

So, I can acknowledge that there is something to be said for executing a proof of concept film, a beta-test, a puff piece, dailies. Sure, I don’t think anyone would argue against that. We all can be pioneers in our fields.

The problem comes when the presentation is lacking. Of course a first try doesn’t have to be polished to pristine perfection but there is a bare minimum that has to be met. Otherwise it’s just messy and won’t gain good will.

Leaving aside the fact that tentacles really don’t do it for me personally, and that I like my monsters to have more of a skeletal structure, this was rough.

First of all, there was so, so, so much screaming. The microphone was constantly peaking and eventually we just muted the film because no matter how low we set the volume it remained teeth-gratingly shrill. If you like screaming in your monster porn, I found it for you!

Secondly, while the full monster looked pretty good, the tentacles wore out their welcome. They were clearly just hands covered in plastic grocery bags, holding dildos. And that’s fine. Inventive and creative, even! I’m an advocate for the ethos of Do What You Can With What You Have. Grocery bags and monster dildos? Great!

But you needed more bags once those bags ripped. You needed, maybe latex gloves on the hands before you put on the bags so even when they ripped, the viewer wouldn’t see pretty painted fingernails. Maybe crop your footage or push in tighter so you don’t see a naked arm because the bag only comes up to the performer’s elbow.

I say it all the time and I’m going to say it again.

Sell the fiction.

Finally, and this was egregious, the directions were heard loud and clear. You’re supposed to cut that kind of shit out. It’s beyond amateur, I don’t even know how it got past the final viewing process.

Not to mention they put emphasis on some sort of slime in the promotional material, the box cover art and in the synopsis but it’s never explained, and while the production team took great pains to make it viscous, slimy and translucent, when used it just looked like Hawaiian Punch shot out of a Super Soaker.

It’s not all bad, as I said, they worked hard bringing Lumpy The Monster to life. He’s a relatively worthy descendent of Audrey II, even if his tentacles are lame.

There were several set pieces, including a mysterious otherworld and the inside of the monster’s belly which was filled with liquid and also had tentacles, but who am I to question monstrous anatomy?

This is tough to recommend because even though we monster lovers have slim pickings, and even though I’m not one for tentacles myself, I’m not sure this would do it for tentacle aficionados either. At worst, it’s too unpolished in a world where we now have Hentaired and Parisited, and at best, well, maybe it would work for them and they have a new hidden gem. I hope they do, for their sake.

Highlights: They tried. they had a vision, and executed it and it wasn't some barely watchable art film like we've reviewed before. Lumpy the Monster is commendable!

Lowlights: The audio issues are obnoxious, and it's unclear if they were trying to make a so-bad-it's good, like a sort of porno Sharknado, or if they just aren't good at making movies. It wasn't sexy and I don't think it would appeal to tentacle enthusasts. Hearing the crew's voice is unforgivable.

LILITH'S SCORE: 2/5

Until next time, my voracious voyeurs. I’m Lilith, and I’m always watching.