How's this for a premise..cannibalistic cave-dwelling kids slaughtering locals of a Maine town! Their motives are to capture a baby(..it serves as a positive god to keep them from being cursed), and replenish themselves with human meat. This comes from the warped pen of Jack Ketcham who adapts the screenplay from his own novel. Canadian Cronenberg veteran Art Hindle is a boozing retired sheriff who is called upon by the local authorities to help them catch the little primal bastards after experiencing a grisly crime scene where blood and body parts lay splattered all over a kitchen. As written by Jack Ketcham, the savages, during the course of the movie, make strategic attacks on innocents, calling to our attention the horrifying possibility that such events could transpire in what is supposed to be a civilized nation. I will caution those wary viewers who find violence towards children(..whether they are as vicious as wild dogs or not)distressing, in "Offspring" it takes place..you must keep in mind, however, that adults are only defending themselves. I think scenarios involving a bloodthirsty pack of flesh-eating fiends will repulse a specific majority anyway, whether the threat consists of kids or not. Andrew van den Houton's movie doesn't overstay it's welcome, if that's a plus for those who might find the subject matter a bit unsettling. There are two older savages who run their brood, gathering up victims to store as cattle in their secret hideaway. The house invaded belongs to David and Amy Halbard(Andrew Elvis Miller & Amy Hargreaves). Claire Carey(Ahna Tessler)and her son Luke(Tommy Nelson)are friends of the Halbarts, escaping from a sorry, no-good husband/father, Stephen(Erick Kastel)who has left them in debt and contending joylessly with the IRS. The invaders lead a full-on assault, kidnapping Amy and mutilating David. Claire is able to retreat with Amy's baby daughter Melissa momentarily, following her son to a special hideout, a tree house nestled nicely in the woods, found by Luke earlier. As Claire gains the attention of the man-brute, her son and baby flee. This sets in motion the final 30 minutes as the pack torment Amy and Claire, wanting the location of Melissa, as George Chandler(Hindle)prepares to get even for the horrible brutal attacks on two policeman. This is quite a violent film, replete with animalistic cruelty by the predators towards their prey, and Ketcham's script does allow us to see how the civilized can become enraged when put through trauma(..as seen in one instance when Amy continually buries the face of a cannibal kid in a fire over and over). Maybe even worse than the killers, Stephen himself causes his wife much agony by manipulating the leader into severely assaulting Claire so that she would give up the baby!