Offspring (V)
| release date | October 6 2009 |
| studio | Lionsgate Home Entertainment |
| director | Andrew Van Den Houten |
| writer | Jack Ketchum |
| starring | Art Hindle, Pollyanna McIntosh, Spencer List, Eric Kastel, Andrew Elvis Miller, Tommy Nelson, Jessica Butler, Rachel White |
| site | offspringthemovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
3 Comments
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..
This is the first Jack Ketchum adaptation that truly delivers all of the violence and gore from his novel to the screen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Welll now it looks like I have found a movie that is twice as offensive as The Hills Have Eyes. The concept is simple. A tribe of savages real throw backs who are primitive beasts in human skin who wonder the woods in search of prey. Cave dwellers in the twenty first century feeding off of the civilized world that is North America. Hillarious concept who would have thought cavemen would still exist. This tribe of manbeasts do not have any morales and do not understand the concept of compassion. All they no is how to murder and rape. They only survive by killing people for food. Offspring is based on a book written by Jack Ketchem. The man who brought us the hidden gem The Lost. Being a Anchor Bay release I imagine this is a straight to video movie.
I really like how their is more then one antagonist in this picture. We have the vile savages who can be seen wondering the woods with the misalainous limbs of the deceased. Then we have the scumbag estranged husband who ran out on his family. A man with no sense of decentcy. When we meet the man he is driving down the road in search for his family… See More. When he desides to pick up a nieave seventeen year old hitchhiker. He is in his mid thirties driving a pourche and dressed like Don Johnson. It is obundently clear that he is not a good simariton. But a man who is in need to feed his sexual desires. Watch him make advances on the young lady. Its not bad enough that he wants to act on his own primal urges but he is driving drunk. He is periodically swigging from a mickie of vodka. One way of another he teaches the young lady a thing or two. The worst thing is that he is still techniqually married well maybe thats not the worst thing.
The audience wants to see the sleezeball die gruesomely. Becouse he is a unredeamable scumbag who is completley unlikeable. He beats his wife, drinks constantly and tried to mollest a teenager. He is a degenerate who has no problem sacraficing the life of his family to save his own. Not everyone would find confort watching their wife get beaten, stripped and raped by canibals. He apearently does. When he gets killed it leaves the audience with a sence of accomplishment. It fullfills a appetite.
Their is a motherload of gore and nudity in this movie I wonder if the MPAA knows this movie exists. A movie full of violence and gore. Boom Headshot galore, so many canibalistic attacks and stabbings. With the amount of shock value material this movie has. Not a doubt in my mind that this would be panned by a mainstream audience. The material is to offensive. This film is politcally incorect, socially unexceptble and damn prowd of it. This film is modern day exploitation movie. 6.5/10.
Offspring
2/19/2010
This is the third book by horror author Jack Ketchum to be made into a movie, the others being “Red” and “The Girl Next Door”. “Offspring” published in 1980 was his first novel and deemed very controversial for it grotesque violence. The movie was made last year from Ketchums’s own script and directed by relatively new director Andrew van den Houten.
The movie was obviously made on a very small budget and except for the violence and gore it really shows. Even though Ketchum is credited with writing the script, he should really stick to novels. The dialogue is utterly comical, there is a paper thin plot and together with terrible acting it can be a chore to watch. This film can really only be endured by either hardcore horror fans or Ketchum Fans. This movie has clichés galore for every taste, the retired alcoholic cop, the small town police force, and the angry ex husband on a mission. Revealing past events in the form of old newspaper clippings is another one that is used in about 80% of all horror movies. The story, like the book, takes place in the coastal Maine town of Dead River (the ominously named town).
The story of “Offspring” involves a clan of feral savage. Think of Deliverance meets pissed off Native Americans. The reason I chose to write about this particular movie is for its depiction of the clan. This film is similar to the book in that it doesn’t shy away from anything. This is a balls-to-the-wall bloody horror spectacle. It has kids killing adults, dead babies, cannibalism and so much more. Our main characters are quite one dimensional, like cattle being led to the slaughter. But they are not annoying like a lot of horror movies. With a bigger budget a lot more talent this could be a decent flick. For example, although the story takes place in Maine, an up close scene with a police car in the foreground is obviously from Michigan (which is were the film was shot). However, I did like how they used sound to heighten the suspense and creepiness.
The Clan members themselves which are mostly children, are well played. The actors really dug into these intensely psychotic roles. The violence and gore is also quite impressive and well done. Now that we know where all the money went, you can understand why the rest of the production is quite poor. Like I mentioned before if your not a hard core horror fanatic like myself I wouldn’t bother with this one.
Offspring marks the third Jack Ketchum work that I have watched recently in movie form and sadly the best was not necessarily saved for last. Offspring is about a clan of cannibals that has been traveling up and down the coast from Maine up to northern Canada since the 1800s. People turn up missing wherever they go, but it has only been recently that one retired cop, familiar with these crimes, has put it all together.
The entire build-up of the the plot really occurs during the credits as you are shown newspaper clippings throughout the years detailing missing hikers, remains of campers and missing babies that have been reported throughout the years. The non-cannibal cast really doesn’t get much time to be established, with the exception of this creepy soon-to-be ex-husband character that is coming to confront his wife.
I really wanted to like this film at time, but then I also wanted to hate it and turn it off at times. This movie is a true paradox to watch. The cannibal clan themselves are simply not scary, at all, at any time. Particularly the children who look like they are just dressed up for Halloween and having fun. Despite the nearly ridiculous quality of the villains, I do appreciate how unpredictable the victims were in the movie.
At no time was there any type of siege action going on. The cannibals killed often and without mercy and sometimes killed characters so quickly that I had to rewind and see how it all started. This unpredictability, coupled with some solid gore, save what was otherwise a bad movie. I really feel like had this film been made with more money and some better actors, that it could have been a much better movie.
the only good thing I can say about this film is that I got to watch it for free. I think this film pluged up my toliet.
This movie sucks big time, the savages’s make-up is so cheap and bad, there aren’t scary moment and it’s a shame because the story itself could be ok, I can’t believe Lionsgate produce this.
A nasty, brutal killer kids film that holds nothing back. Is it a good horror film; sometimes yes, but overall not really. The movie lacks any real scares or memorable moments its just a hour and a half of moderate tension, graphic violence and twisted behavior. I didn’t know if this film was supposed to be enjoyed or endured. It didn’t seemed to know either.
Not that “scary” but an interesting story. Fleshing out the characters that survive longer than 10 min. would’ve helped me care more.
*I gave this a zero everywhere else. This site won’t let me do it, so 2/10 it is.*
Do you want to know why so many people hate horror films? Because these days, they almost always tend to suck. Yes, once in a while, a week (or even a year) will come around when some good genre works release for horror, but filmmakers have lost sight of what makes a film frightening. Now, I admire risky filmmakers. I admire those who want to go where we’ve gone before. “Offspring” wants to do that, but it ends up going where we have indeed been before, and admittedly, not many of us liked it the first time around.
I usually don’t give films such films low ratings such as this. You may think I am being excessive, but I think not. I was repulsed by “Offspring”; a violent, clichéd piece of maggot-eating shit that has its story set in my home-state of Maine. I’m sure this movie thought it was clever in using Maine as its setting, but honestly, with Stephen King alive, you’re not being particularly unique when I do this. This film is simply the exact definition of “bad horror”; sleazy, stupid, mindless, and lame. At least “Hostel” could be well-made pornography. This is just pornography.
Like all films like this one, “Offspring” begins with a nice family. There’s usually a gas station involved in this premise, but our heroes and heroines stay put in their homes for a good portion of the film. They’re just regular people; the best victims for a horror film. Now, enter the horror: a tribe/clan of cannibalistic sadists who live in the woods not far from the homes. One day, they go crazy with blood-lust, and decide to break into the home of our characters and kidnap them.
From then, the film is all blood, gore, torture, and pornography. It’s wrong in so many ways; on so many levels. I can’t say it’s “disturbing”, but I didn’t find it fun to watch. It made me depressed once it was over; since there were practically no redeeming qualities to this thing. Why anyone would think it’s “decent” is beyond me, but there are people out there. There always are.
I give this rating to films that go over-the-top. They are films that I find repulsive. Sometimes, a film gets a higher rating because they are repulsive, but have some redeeming qualities. My problem with “Offspring” is not violence; I don’t mind violence. But when it’s done without reason, delving into all-out exploitation, I tend to get beyond annoyed. I hate, hate, hate this movie to the ends of the earth. One of the worst I shall ever see for its genre; or any genre, in general. This is because, while it has its inspirations and ambitions, the thing is utter shit. When your movie has bad story-telling, poor acting, and lame dialogue accompanied by gruesome blood-shed, you’re not in for a good time. It’s more of an ordeal than a film, and I think we should all save that for reality. Nobody wants to watch such acts committed on film; least of all when there’s no purpose, no soul, and no reason for such a film (or such acts) to exist. But that’s bat-shit craziness for you.
The fuck! What the heck was I just watching?
“Offspring” is not a bio-pic about the Californian punk-rock-band of the same name,
but an adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s novel of the same name, a follow-up to his breakthrough debut “Off-Season”
I haven’t read the book (or any other works from Ketchum), so I don’t know how faithful it is
- but I do know that this is one of the worst and most embarrassing movies I have ever seen.
Nothing about this crapfest is any good. Nothing.
~ It’s packed with the stiffest, dullest and most untalented actors I’ve seen in a long time,
not forgetting that they’re playing cardboard characters that are so sloppily written, it’s unbearable.
~ Oh, by the way: script and characters were written by… um, Jack Ketchum himself…
~ There’s no suspense or atmosphere or anything that keeps you interested in watching this from beginning to end.
~ It also fails on the technical side due to weak editing, bad lighting, lame cinematography, cheap-looking settings, cheapest-looking costumes, an annoying various-electronic-sounds-pieced-together-soundtrack and awkward directing.
~ Worst of all:
The laughable-looking cannical children, and the unimpressing gore scenes which left me cold although they’re all extremely brutal.
A worthless piece of shit. Avoid like the plague!
1/10
Hoy………. wow…………
Another great book adapted into a fucking TERRIBLE movie. I mean, come on! We’re gonna’ allow Twilight to get better quality movies than Jack Ketchum’s work? That’s fucked up. This movie was such a waste.
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