After a series of strange encounters around town, a doctor and a police detective find that the culprits are random virginal women being raped by a race of shapeshifting aliens looking to mate with humans and must band together to find a way of stopping their spree. This one wasn’t all that bad if looked at in the right manner. One of the best aspects to this here is the highly fun and enjoyable sleaze present here which makes for a rather fine experience. By detailing the whole of the encounter as rapes, it takes a rather darker tone here with the usual ploy of the insect-like aliens looking to mate which gives this a rather dark and disturbing tone when coupled with the rather striking feature of the need for virginity to be utilized for their needs. That gives this the need for some tense and somewhat suspenseful attacks that occur throughout here, from the opening attack on the lone girl walking home from her failed date, the attack on the model in the photography studio and the rather shocking ambush in the nurse’s house where her date is knocked off without her knowing and then turning around to see the bug-eyed alien jump out to attack her. That leaves the film with a few rather nice attacks to lead into the finale in the underground tunnels where their nest is found with all the victims writhing around in the pool of liquid where all the shapeshifting aliens are gather…

So I saw this when I was about 10, late at night, on HBO. I'm pretty sure it was HBO at least. At any rate I watched it before I was aware of Hentai or Anime, or whatever it's called. I remember back in the day, when it was on USA (I think) they billed it as Japanimation--which depending on how you read it is either Japan-Imation or incredibly racist. Which is probably why they don't call it that anymore. Anyway, "Breeders" is like the live action version of most of those cartoons. It's really nudity + monster rape. All they needed to add was school girls in sailor uniforms and it would exactly like the worst stereotype of one of those Anime cartoons. However, it is also incredibly 80s and that decade knew how to do cliched cheesy pretty well. So it's Anime meets the 80s Cheese meets horrible horror movie. So, really, it's incredibly fun to watch. So I am giving it 10 out of 10 stars because it entertains, because despite the fact that it is a really bad movie, it's also a very fun movie to watch.

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