An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke student to her ranch with a promise of research funding. But there’s a catch.

College student Russell (Daniel Doheny) is focused on developing a new game-changing solution to save the endangered bee population from extinction. But there’s a problem: He can’t secure enough funding. That’s before a potential lifeline shows up in the form of a random but tempting financial offer from a poodle breeder named Patti (Dot-Marie Jones), who lives off the grid on an isolated ranch. Russell visits Patti to see if her offer is legit or too good to be true. Unfortunately, after several awkward interactions and a growing sense of unease, he learns that it’s the latter. She’ll give him the cash, but with an added cost.

Alex Goyette’s wild feature debut is the darkest of dark comedies, mining uncomfortable laughs from the absurd. It’s also an unpredictable horror ride, its insanity ratcheting up from scene to scene and its wicked malevolence resting on the shoulders of co-star Jones in one hell of a villain performance. Altogether, “Breeder” represents genre filmmaking at its most delightfully unruly.