AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Paul Magne Haakonsen The DVD box cover for "Offspring" brandishes 'brutal... gruesome... shocking'. I wonder if whomever at horror.com who wrote this actually watched the same movie as I have watched. Because this movie was anything but those three things.The story is about a clan of flesh-eating cave-dwelling savages whom prey upon people in Dead River, Maine.Right... This storyline was so fundamentally ridiculous that I gave up on the movie after 35 minutes and stopped it to watch something else. So the audience is to believe that in this day and age that flesh-eating savages still exist and roam the hillsides? And better yet, they are smart enough to use modern day tools and cover up their private parts because this is what their lack of exposure to society and mannerism has taught them. Right...The whole concept of the movie was ludicrous, and was delivered by the actors and actresses with no conviction, which just made it even more difficult to buy into the story and the world that director Andrew Van Den Houten was trying to sell with "Offspring".This movie will quietly go to die on the DVD shelf, never to see the light of day again. This was without a doubt one of the worst movies that I have stumbled upon.

jlthornb51 From visionary director Andrew Van den Houten comes this horrific tale of a generations old cannibal tribe practicing their perversion on U.S. soil. A feral, flesh eating group of savages run rampant in the woods of the Northeast and civilized people find themselves fighting for their very lives. While this is indeed a horror film, Van den Houten treats his subject with sensitivity and respect. The butchering hordes are also not depicted as stereotypical cannibals but a lost clan of misguided individuals enslaved to a cultural that was inherited, not chosen. This is a disturbing motion picture due to the subject matter and it necessarily contains haunting imagery of incredible power. However, it is far more than simply an experiment in terror and serves as a insightful social analysis of a problem that continues to plague the North American continents. Seldom is cannibalism confronted directly and with the brutal veracity employed in this stunning movie. As such, it is an vital wake-up call regarding one of our society's most deeply kept secrets. It is an issue which authorities choose to ignore but one that this film demonstrates must be dealt with before civilization as we know it ceases to exist in the United States and Canada.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Not completely without it's merits, but most of them are buried below a sea of crap. I like Jack Ketchum, his stories do have an extra something. The script is let down by some poor acting and hilariously awkward moments that just don't fit. You can set up a character as a slimeball without such a heavy handed pervert/hitchhiker scene. The acting from the offspring/wild people is comic at best. One boy jumps into shot going "Hee hee hee", like some pantomime witch. The gore is done rather well, and there were nice parts, such as the first kill. It made a nice and chilling change to see a scene not played for jumps, but for the awkward silence. Perhaps worth a watch, as it is short.

thesar-2 You're in the mood for a gory, and I mean GRUESOME film? Watch the clichéd-filled and grisly film: Offspring. Honestly, there's no other reason to watch it.A group of Nethanderals (literally) have survived the ages and love cannibalism. Mix that with today's time and a whole lot of blood with a family terrorized.I admit that this is my fault, that I haven't actually watched this movie for over a month. I generally will watch a movie and attempt to review it within a day or week of the viewing as it's still fresh in my memory. All I remember of this movie is that it was enormously gruesome, make that: unnecessarily grotesque, and it reminded me a lot of the equally unnecessary and blood-soaked film, Gnaw, but better due to acting and direction.One thing I can say about the movie with the time between viewing and reviewing, is that, apparently, it wasn't too memorable. I do remember horrible, horrible human beings – whether stuck in ages-ago time frames or today's time, that deserve the punishment they get.I wouldn't recommend it at all, despite the 2/5 stars awarded and it made it that far as it was a well made independent film. It's just an excuse to get gore on the screen with all-but zero attributes. Watch Eegah instead. The MST3k version, that is. At least you'll get a laugh out of the sort-of-same-plot.