"Hybrid" is the latest in the Maneater Series by Genius Products and RHI Entertainment. These films are creature of the week films originally broadcasted on the Sci-Fi Channel. Don´t expect high works of art.
"Hybrid" begins with Dr. Andrea Hewlett (Justine Bateman) giving an informed talk to a gaggle of doctors and scientists about her latest breakthrough. Dr. Hewlett has successfully completed the first ever inter-species transplant by giving a baboon with glaucoma the eyes of a Siberian wolf. She asks for her audience´s help in carrying out the next stage of her work, human test subjects. Two simultaneous events occur that will change everything.
Lydia (Tinsel Korey) is hiking through the woods when she comes across an injured wolf. She takes him to a veterinarian only to find that he gave the wolf to Dr. Hewlett´s research firm. Meanwhile, at an oil drilling site, Aaron Scates (Cory Monteith) rescues a co-worker from a raging fire, but suffers severe eye damage in the process. Aaron´s doctors turn him over to the care of Dr. Hewlitt who replaces the damaged eyes with the wolf´s. However, the process works in ways completely unexpected. Aaron is soon plagued by visions of roaming the wilderness and hunting the local fauna. He also begins displaying extraordinary senses, strength, and reflexes. Aaron is taken in by Lydia who has been investigating Dr. Hewlitt in search of her missing wolf. The two go on the run from the military (led by a colonel who looks an awful lot like G. Gordon Liddy) as they have made significant investments to the good doctor´s research.
"Hybrid" isn´t quite a werewolf movie. Aaron doesn´t howl at the moon, grow furry palms, or exhibits weakness to silver. The film tries to ground the story with some semblance of scientific reality. But, we´re talking about junk science. The kind where all the characters use big words in the vein attempt to make it seem like the writer actually did a tiny bit of research. How exactly does having a pair of wolf eyes give Aaron the ability to leap several stories with ease? How do the eyes affect his sense of hearing and smell? With "The Eye," you could sort of buy into the eyes of a dead person haunting their recipient. I buy nothing that "Hybrid" is selling.
"Hybrid" is the latest in the Maneater Series by Genius Products and RHI Entertainment. These films are creature of the week films originally broadcasted on the Sci-Fi Channel. Don´t expect high works of art.
"Hybrid" begins with Dr. Andrea Hewlett (Justine Bateman) giving an informed talk to a gaggle of doctors and scientists about her latest breakthrough. Dr. Hewlett has successfully completed the first ever inter-species transplant by giving a baboon with glaucoma the eyes of a Siberian wolf. She asks for her audience´s help in carrying out the next stage of her work, human test subjects. Two simultaneous events occur that will change everything.
Lydia (Tinsel Korey) is hiking through the woods when she comes across an injured wolf. She takes him to a veterinarian only to find that he gave the wolf to Dr. Hewlett´s research firm. Meanwhile, at an oil drilling site, Aaron Scates (Cory Monteith) rescues a co-worker from a raging fire, but suffers severe eye damage in the process. Aaron´s doctors turn him over to the care of Dr. Hewlitt who replaces the damaged eyes with the wolf´s. However, the process works in ways completely unexpected. Aaron is soon plagued by visions of roaming the wilderness and hunting the local fauna. He also begins displaying extraordinary senses, strength, and reflexes. Aaron is taken in by Lydia who has been investigating Dr. Hewlitt in search of her missing wolf. The two go on the run from the military (led by a colonel who looks an awful lot like G. Gordon Liddy) as they have made significant investments to the good doctor´s research.
"Hybrid" isn´t quite a werewolf movie. Aaron doesn´t howl at the moon, grow furry palms, or exhibits weakness to silver. The film tries to ground the story with some semblance of scientific reality. But, we´re talking about junk science. The kind where all the characters use big words in the vein attempt to make it seem like the writer actually did a tiny bit of research. How exactly does having a pair of wolf eyes give Aaron the ability to leap several stories with ease? How do the eyes affect his sense of hearing and smell? With "The Eye," you could sort of buy into the eyes of a dead person haunting their recipient. I buy nothing that "Hybrid" is selling.
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