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Such a letdown - I can't imagine how someone could take such an inspired source material as "Offspring", bring on Jack Ketchum (it's writer!) to pen the screenplay, add in crew from the brilliant adaptation "The Girl Next Door" and deliver this film. Granted, there are some atmospheric shots and disturbing moments (the representation of the "biting" sequence works very well), but it is obscured by one simple fact: it isn't scary. We have no real concrete backstory on the cannibals themselves and while we do get to know the family under seige, their history is obscured by wordy/sappy dialouge and questionable acting. The main fault lies in the fact that I as a viewer never once believed this story was real. On paper the plot seems far fetched, but in Ketchum's hands the book made the seemingly ludicrous into white knuckled horror. The movie just looks ridiculous.
Dare I say it one of the better "inbreed" movies. Ok, some of the acting fell short, but generally speaking i think the whole movie got the desired effect from the viewer. Squirm inducing and quite atmospheric taking you to a dark side not many movies can even imagine, and all on a budget!
effects blew, the cannibal costumes looked so cheap and cheesy, the acting blew, the storyline was ok. I say its worth a rent if you can't find anything else to get for the nite lol
Posted By: frightjunkie at 8:08pm, October 14, 2009
Pretty mediocre, but worth a watch anyway if you can handle an ongoing series of unintentionally silly moments. Crap cannibal costumes, dodgy acting and a heavy reliance on your standard, run of the mill gore fx. Seriously, do we really need to see a 9 ft. piece of sausage looking entrails being pulled from someone's abdomen? Does that frighten or repulse anyone? I've seen worse on CSI Miami. Give it up already! How about spending that fx money on a decent camera crew, better actors and a halfway decent script?! The more I think about it, the less I like this movie.
An mostly weird, bloody disgusting, pointless and numbing in its stupidity with laughable bad performances. It lacked in terror, suspense, story and most importantly scares but I do give it credit for never being dull or slow and was sometimes creepy but what a weak ending! This was like a The Hills Have Eyes knockoff crossed with The Lord Of The Flies and a little of Wrong Turn but it definitely didn't pull it off. I really was hoping that this will be good ever since the first time I heard about it but it ended up disappointing me greatly and is another pointless exercise in torture that's neither terrifying or effective and is throw away trash with alot of plot holes but it is certainly not the worst out there. Overall the first and I hope the last disappointing film from ghost house underground 2009 that I've seen, what a let down! Not recommended unless you happen to catch it on t.v.
Would have given it a lower vote if I could. Just plan horrible movie. If you haven't read the books you will be completely lost on what the hell is going on in the movie. Effects were garbage. For anyone that has seen the movie, how about that baby in the bag at the start, I could have took a more realistic shot/effect than that!!! If you never see this movie you will not miss anything, actually I might actually envy you.
Posted By: horror_geek at 10:06am, October 8, 2009
It worked great as a novel but the execution here is atrocious. The direction is uninspired, the acting is amateurish and the so-called score is annoying and sounds like a bad rip on Chainsaw Massacre. On the plus side however Ketchum has a cameo and the gore is decent.
This is the first Jack Ketchum adaptation that truly delivers all of the violence and gore from his novel to the screen.
Posted By: flesheater123 at 12:34am, October 7, 2009
I say fuck the 3 skulls the only reason my man tex gave three is he prob feels bad giving it anymore because it's just so fucked up I mean it is 100 percent movei adapation of the book. straight from the words of page into the words of movie. As a HUGE HUGE Fan of jack and this book and the one before still IDK why you wanted to do this first and not the offseason go fig. But this was just like the book. And man oh man was the booked fucked, but holy shit with a side stick was this movie something...Like tex said fuck the other killer kids movies this movie is up there in the ranks as the most fucked up kids movie EVER... I swear in the book I was scared and had nightmares now there true..>GREAT... the acting was wooden but come on your not seeing it for that your seeing it for gore and for jack...and thats what you get...
AWESOME MOVIE
he should get work on his other stuff..
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