You'll know right from the very first minutes of Offerings that the director is a huge Halloween fan. The basic story of a little boy returning home after a stay in a mental hospital and terrorizing young women is Halloween to a T. The music is so similar to John Carpenter's seminal classic that one wonders how the filmmakers of Offerings weren't sued.There isn't really a scary or suspenseful bone in Offerings' body, but there's tons of downhome charm, quirky performances, and entertaining set pieces to keep it from being an unwatchable rip off. All the girls seem to have some dazed expression on their face for most of the film and a few of them speak in a strange southern meets valley girl accent that's a real hoot.A few of the murder scenes are fairly well staged and done with a bit of panache as well.This one won't reinvent the wheel, but it's a fun time killer.

"Offerings" by Christopher Reynolds tells the story of mute serial killer John Radley who after killing nurse and escaping from mental asylum stalk and kill all those that tormented him when he was a kid.His bloody rampage is obviously Michael Myers influenced.John is no ordinary killer for example he killed and ate his own sadistic mother.He has only one friend from childhood:blonde girl named Gretchen."Offerings" is a blatant and unapologetic "Halloween" rip-off.Even its musical score clearly reminds John Carpenter's famous music.Black humor sprinkled death scenes are quite inventive but mostly goreless.Still fans of cheesy slasher movies will enjoy this low-budget horror.6 body parts out of 10.

As everyone has said, this is a Halloween rip-off. The killer is a guy who makes the same robotic gestures as Michael Myers and has a similar eerie glow to his face. The scene at the end shows this the most. Don't let the "Halloween rip-off" thing put you off. Personally I don't care that it rips off Halloween, if anything I see it more as a tribute.The concept is good - a mute young boy is pushed into a well by local bullies, kills his abusive mom when he gets out, and ends up in mental hospital (he must have put a lot of weight on while in hospital, I might add). He escapes, and then the film descends into a stalk-and-slash formula. There isn't much gore, but we get several body parts (a finger, an ear, a nose, etc). The killer is giving these "offerings" to the now grown up girl who was kind to him as a kid. In the last scene before he dies, he utters his one and only word: "love". Which is sweet in a way. This is a decent slasher film that has its own unique charm, I recommend all slasher fans give it at least the once over.

Picture Halloween and The Slumber Party Massacre put together with glue on a low-budget and you have Offerings. This movie is the ultimate Halloween rip-off. It completely steals the music, the Final Girl's character, the setting, the POV shots, etc. It borrows heavily from Slumber Party Massacre in many ways too. Story is about a weird little kid who falls down a well when bullied by the neighborhood kids. He goes crazy and escapes from an asylum 10 years later to kill them and leave their body parts on the doorstep of the girl who was nice to him as a kid. The movie is basic slasher stuff and is kinda fun to watch if you're in a good mood and you like slasher films. It's fun to see how far this movie will go to be like the original Halloween because it's constantly obvious. In other words, not to be taken seriously, but easy to get through if you can tell what it wants to be. Not too much blood or gore, but a fair body count. Some of the murders are kinda mean-spirited. The acting is laughable, but the setting is good, the ending fair, and the story moves at a good pace. Features a head smashed in a vice, needle in the forehead, lynching on the rooftop of a suburban home, cannibalism with pizza, and guy who hates worms. Two and a half stars.