He ends up running afoul of the cannibal clan and briefly sides up with them to watch his wife being tortured and raped within their seaside cave.Įasily the best performance in the film is from Pollyanna McIntosh, the female leader of the band of brutes. At just a scant 75 minutes (79 including the end credits), the script finds room to include an almost equally savage man looking for his wife who had left him. It's a reverse HILLS HAVE EYES (1977) in that the cannibal clan come to civilization as opposed to the other way around.

It just seemed jarring that cave-dwelling, cannibalistic cretins like this, wearing the attire that they were, would be waging a war of consumption with the surrounding human food supply. The main problem I have with the movie is I found it hard to swallow (haha) that such a regressive clutch of savages would be intermingling with modernized nuclear families. The family of cannibals retreat to their rocky home after a night of grocery shopping Having not read the novel, I do not know how faithful it is to his own source material. For this picture, Ketchum also stepped up and wrote the screenplay. Far from a good movie, OFFSPRING is the neolithic brethren compared to the other Ketchum based movies. While it's mostly the aftermath that's shown, the film pulls few punches in its depiction of violence by, or against children. Still, this movie version is a strange potpourri of graphic violence and Italian cannibal movie conventions.

I've read neither book, but judging from the film itself, it doesn't seem to be a requirement to have read the prior tome. The sequel novel to Ketchum's earlier 'Off Season', this follow up was commissioned since the other was tied up in rights issues. The fourth, and least of the brutally violent novels by Jack Ketchum adapted for the screen. Worth a look, but compared with the other Jack Ketchum movies, you might be disappointed with the quality. The frequent scenes of pugnacity bring to mind a modern CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and THE HILLS HAVE EYES, but the film feels strangely out of place with its feral, jungle dressed killers laying siege to rural families. Still, gore fans will slobber all over the nasty and brutal violence on display here. The Short Version: Totally bizarre Ketchum film adaptation is the lesser of the four evils made from his novels thus far. Graye (Gloria), Amy Hargreaves (Amy Halbard), Art Hindle (George Chandler), Pollyanna McIntosh (cannibal leader)Ī family of ferocious and feral cannibals travel the New England coast near the Canadian border butchering and eating families in the surrounding suburban neighborhoods. Jessica Butler (Eartheater), Kelly Carey (Loreen Kaltsas), Holter Graham (Vic Manetti), T.J.

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