Jack Ketchum's OFFSPRING (2009)

[indianasmith]

This was a new release from Ghost House Underground that I picked up earlier in the week.  It's a sequel to Jack Ketchum's book, THE OFF SEASON, which is also being made into a movie that is not yet released.  So yeah, the sequel was released BEFORE the original feature.

A gang of feral children and teens are terrorizing the northern Maine coast, devouring people and kidnapping babies.  An alcoholic retired detective recognizes this as a return of a band of feral cannibals he dealt with 10 years before. 

Meanwhile, a writer and his wife are having one of her friends over for the weekend, with her 10 year old son.  She is being stalked by a psychotic ex-hubby, who arrives at the house at the same time the cannibals descend on it . . .

and so the fun begins.  This film has graphic violence perpetrated on and by little kids, gut chomping, shots, stabbings, whippings, some nudity, baby flinging, rape, TONS of cannibalism, and eye gouging.  Mixed in with fairly lame dialogue, heavy drinking, and the grandmother of all dysfunctional marriages.

Other than that, it is 100% family appropriate.

[SPazzo]

and so the fun begins.  This film has graphic violence perpetrated on and by little kids, gut chomping, shots, stabbings, whippings, some nudity, baby flinging, rape, TONS of cannibalism, and eye gouging.  Mixed in with fairly lame dialogue, heavy drinking, and the grandmother of all dysfunctional marriages.

Oh God, lame dialogue?  Anything but that!!!  I don't think I could watch this.



But seriously, it actually looks pretty good.  I just watched the trailer. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUVrF6au3ns

[Joe the Destroyer]

I never read Offspring, though I intend to eventually.  Off Season was a great read.  I was surprised they waited this long to adapt Off Season (was announced quite some time ago) into a movie, but it boggles me why they did Offspring first. 

[Neville]

I loved the previous Jack Ketchum adaptations, "Girl next door" and "Blood", but didn't like this one much. The idea of a gang of feral cannibals drifting from Maine to Canada and back and preying on the locals is very disturbing, but I felt the movie wasn't doing much with it and was poorly paced. There are a few interesting scenes where we see the tribe from the inside, but even those are disapointing in the end.

At least the film doesn't balk when it comes to gore, nudity and violence. If it had it would be a real stinker.