A small-town police officer’s last case has him investigating a gruesome murder in The Breach. John Hawkins (Allan Hawco) is the police chief of the tiny town of Lone Crow, who takes one last case before transferring to the big city when a canoe carrying the grisly remains of local scientist Cole Parsons (Adam Kenneth Wilson) washes up to shore. Along with fellow officer Jacob Redgrave (Wesley French), Hawkins enlists the help of Meg Fullbright (Emily Alatalo), who previously chartered a boat to Parsons), to get to the scientist’s isolated house to look for answers. At his home, they find Cole’s estranged wife, Linda Parsons (Natalie Brown), along with a machine in the attic he has been using to conduct horrifying experiments.
The Breach is the sophomore feature film directed by Rue Morgue magazine founder and publisher Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh), based on the
The Breach is a film that features a similar level of Lovecraftian body horror found in 2016’s The Void. However, director Rodrigo Gudiño opts for a slower build, waiting until the climax for the grotesque results of Cole Parson’s experiments to unveil themselves. Besides some exposition-heavy Skype calls with conspiracy theorist Alex (RUSH’s Alex Lifeson), The Breach doesn’t fully explain what these experiments entail. However, The Breach still has its moments, particularly in the gory climax.
