Offspring (2009)
2/10
About as clever as a cave dwelling cannibal.
7 August 2011
After reading several positive reviews of this film I tracked it down because I thought it sounded interesting. It wasn't, it was dumb.

There's a tiny town somewhere in America where a gang of cannibals are living in a cave on the beach. These cannibals all have clothes made of animal skin like cavemen, despite living close enough to civilisation to steal some clothes from a washing line every now and then. Also if you're making clothes out of animals why not eat them instead of people and if you're having to resort to cannibalism it might not be such a good idea stealing babies and making your group larger, stupid idiots. Anyway these guys talk in some stupid growly language and have names for each other like eartheater and other dumb crap like that. When they talk their growl language you get really rubbish looking subtitles come up on screen. All their dialogue is embarrassing tripe designed to make you cringe.

The cannibals attack a house full of inadequate actors. One of which has their evil ex husband on the way to the house, who within ten seconds of meeting this character you know he's gonna side with the bad guys at some point. Oh and by the way if you don't burst out laughing as one of the stig kids comes through the window of the house and cackles like a little witch as the camera zooms towards it's face then you've just missed out on the only joy this film has to offer.

There are scenes of torture which are neither scary or harrowing just stupid due to the fact they're so over the top. The gore in this film is so crude, with bits of leg here and a rubber torso there. The fact it's done in such a straight way makes it even stupider because the whole thing just becomes laughable. The longer the film goes on the dumber it gets. It's just one ineffective scare or anticlimax after another. My partner got so bored she started doing a puzzle. I braved it through to the end and wished I hadn't.

This offspring should have been drowned at birth.
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