I saw this on a rented DVD n after watching The Woman. Well this is a prequel to The Woman. At least this movie cleared some of my "unexplained" portions which i had while watching The Woman. The movie starts by showing newspaper clippings explaining the missing people (the cannibal clan). Everything about this movie pointed that it was shot on a low budget. The acting was awful. The pace was slow. Editing was horrible. They never showed the coastal area, forest n island properly. It was devoid of even decent cinematography. It lacked the tension n suspense. The movie focused on one aspect, jus to shock. Plenty of gore (disembowelling, slashing of head to expose the brain part n later sucking n eating the brain and a disturbing biting off of a vagina). The cannibals were pretty laughable. Now these cannibals r shown to cover their private parts with animal skin. They were mostly shown sneaking around people's houses n later entering n killing them. Why not take some clothes to wear? The cannibals were able to make sharp steel teeth n wander outside lawns without getting noticed? The cannibals cave dwelling lookd like a cheap studio set. The cops were shown way too stupid. Jus plain stupid characters. This movie cud hav been better but it is jus a cheap rip off of Wrong turn n Hills have eyes.

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.

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.

How's this for a premise..cannibalistic cave-dwelling kids slaughtering locals of a Maine town! Their motives are to capture a baby(..it serves as a positive god to keep them from being cursed), and replenish themselves with human meat. This comes from the warped pen of Jack Ketcham who adapts the screenplay from his own novel. Canadian Cronenberg veteran Art Hindle is a boozing retired sheriff who is called upon by the local authorities to help them catch the little primal bastards after experiencing a grisly crime scene where blood and body parts lay splattered all over a kitchen. As written by Jack Ketcham, the savages, during the course of the movie, make strategic attacks on innocents, calling to our attention the horrifying possibility that such events could transpire in what is supposed to be a civilized nation. I will caution those wary viewers who find violence towards children(..whether they are as vicious as wild dogs or not)distressing, in "Offspring" it takes place..you must keep in mind, however, that adults are only defending themselves. I think scenarios involving a bloodthirsty pack of flesh-eating fiends will repulse a specific majority anyway, whether the threat consists of kids or not. Andrew van den Houton's movie doesn't overstay it's welcome, if that's a plus for those who might find the subject matter a bit unsettling. There are two older savages who run their brood, gathering up victims to store as cattle in their secret hideaway. The house invaded belongs to David and Amy Halbard(Andrew Elvis Miller & Amy Hargreaves). Claire Carey(Ahna Tessler)and her son Luke(Tommy Nelson)are friends of the Halbarts, escaping from a sorry, no-good husband/father, Stephen(Erick Kastel)who has left them in debt and contending joylessly with the IRS. The invaders lead a full-on assault, kidnapping Amy and mutilating David. Claire is able to retreat with Amy's baby daughter Melissa momentarily, following her son to a special hideout, a tree house nestled nicely in the woods, found by Luke earlier. As Claire gains the attention of the man-brute, her son and baby flee. This sets in motion the final 30 minutes as the pack torment Amy and Claire, wanting the location of Melissa, as George Chandler(Hindle)prepares to get even for the horrible brutal attacks on two policeman. This is quite a violent film, replete with animalistic cruelty by the predators towards their prey, and Ketcham's script does allow us to see how the civilized can become enraged when put through trauma(..as seen in one instance when Amy continually buries the face of a cannibal kid in a fire over and over). Maybe even worse than the killers, Stephen himself causes his wife much agony by manipulating the leader into severely assaulting Claire so that she would give up the baby!