Half-Caste (film)

Half-Caste
Half-Caste
	DVD cover
Directed by	Sebastian Apodaca
Written by	Sebastian Apodaca
Produced by	Sebastian Apodaca; Kim te Roller
Starring	Sebastian Apodaca; Robert Pike Daniel; Kim Te Roller; Kathy Wagner
Cinematography	Cooper Donaldson
Edited by	Stuart Acher; Sebastian Apodaca
Music by	Charlie Brissette; Hanu Khosla; Manu Khosla
Distributed by	Universal Home Video
Release date	August 3, 2004;
Running time	86 minutes
Country	South Africa
Language	English

Half-Caste also called The Real Story of Half-Caste is a 2004 documentary-style horror film written and directed by Sebastian Apodaca. Set in Southern Africa, it centers around a group of documentary makers who search for the Half-Caste, a hybrid creature that is said to be part man and part leopard.

Plot

The film follows four student filmmakers who travel to the remote wilderness of Southern Africa to investigate and document the legend of the Half-Caste, a terrifying creature from African folklore that is said to be a hybrid of human and leopard. Led by Bobby G. Cortez (Sebastian Apodaca), the team includes Jan (Robert Pike Daniel), Babzy-Cole (Kim Te Roller), and Cleo (Kathy Wagner), each bringing their own motivations and skepticism to the expedition.

Initially dismissive of the local warnings and treating the legend as mere superstition, the group begins their investigation by interviewing locals and gathering testimonies about sightings of the creature. As they venture deeper into the African bush, equipped with cameras and recording equipment, they document their journey in what they believe will be an academic exercise debunking rural myths.

However, their skepticism gradually turns to unease as they encounter increasingly disturbing evidence that the Half-Caste may be more than just folklore. Strange sounds in the night, unexplained tracks, and the growing terror of their local guides suggest that something genuinely menacing stalks the wilderness. The students' academic confidence begins to crumble as they realize they may have ventured far beyond their depth.

As night falls and the group becomes isolated in the vast African landscape, their documentary project transforms into a desperate struggle for survival. The creature they sought to expose as myth reveals itself to be horrifyingly real, hunting them with predatory intelligence that combines human cunning with animal savagery. What began as a theoretical exploration of cultural legends becomes a visceral confrontation with an ancient evil that has terrorized the region for generations.

The film's found footage style intensifies the horror as the students' own cameras capture their mounting terror and the increasingly violent encounters with the Half-Caste. Their safety-in-numbers theory proves fatally flawed as the creature systematically stalks the group, picking them off one by one in the unforgiving wilderness where modern technology offers little protection against primal terror.

The legend they came to document ultimately consumes them, demonstrating why some stories are best left as cautionary tales rather than subjects for academic investigation.

Cast

Sebastian Apodaca as Bobby G. Cortez
Robert Pike Daniel as Jan
Kim Te Roller as Babzy-Cole
Kathy Wagner as Cleo
Greg Good as Ray
Hylton Lea as Lourence
Rob Zazzali as Gert
Yvans Jourdain as Chris
Kelly Cohen as Terry
Philip Graham as Half-Caste

Release

Universal Studios released the film on DVD on August 3, 2004 and was released again on DVD as a triple feature by Screen Media on August 24, 2010.^[1] and was released theatrically on Jan 25, 2006.^[2]

Reception

Critical reception for the film has been extremely negative.

Bill Gibron from DVD Talk panned the film calling it one of the worst independent films ever made.^[3] Bill Thompson from Sound on Sight.com gave the film a negative review panning the film's acting, editing, and camera work stating, "There are horror movies and then there is Half-Caste, causing horror fans everywhere who think the genre can do no wrong to weep uncontrollably as they are subjected to its awfulness".^[4]

References

^ "Half-Caste (2004) - Releases". Allmovie.com. Allmovie. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^ "Half-Caste". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
^ Gibron, Bill (14 June 2004). "The Real Story of Half-Caste". DVD Talk.com. Bill Gibron. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
^ Thompson, Bill. "Wide World of Horror: "Half-Caste" - barely qualifying as a movie". Sound On Sight.com. Bill Thompson. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

External links

Half-Caste at IMDb
Half Caste at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] "Half-Caste (2004) - Releases". Allmovie.com. Allmovie. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

[tomatoes-2] "Half-Caste". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

[3] Gibron, Bill (14 June 2004). "The Real Story of Half-Caste". DVD Talk.com. Bill Gibron. Retrieved 31 July 2021.

[4] Thompson, Bill. "Wide World of Horror: "Half-Caste" - barely qualifying as a movie". Sound On Sight.com. Bill Thompson. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

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