Jack Ketchum is one of my MUST read authors and this is why. His movie had strong characters...but not necessarily nice people! He is twisted and this movie was a pleasant surprise!

Solid enough horror flick, if you can forgive a rather implausible premise.Yes yes, men are bad, men imprison women in domestic hell they call "marriage" and burden them with children.We are very sorry.To compensate for generations of such treatment, men have invented (among everything else we invented, ie, everything) an elegant solution called "MGTOW", which is basically bachelorhood with a philosophy behind it. Look it up, it's a thing now.So one fine day, women will stop complaining about being burdened with motherhood and so forth, and begin complaining about men not approaching them for marriage anymore. Oh look, "where have all the good men gone," an op-ed in today's paper. It has begun.Reverse the genders in this film and you've got the truer picture: women enslave men, not the other way around.Anyway, yeah, it was a fun enough flick and pretty stylishly done, if you can ignore the agenda.

I saw this movie on a rented DVD in 2012. Well, i heard so much praise bah this film that i cudnt wait to play the DVD. One mistake i did. I saw this before its prequel "Offsprings". This movie started slow. Nothing happens. The capture of The Woman while she is out in the forest drinking water was silly. I thot how cn cannibals or feral clans still exist that too so close to civilization. Still i continued watching. Still nothing happens. To top it all the acting was bad, editing was lousy, music terrible n the screenplay sucked big time. Some may find it strange and aggressive. I found it boring n unexplained. The movie ended with a wild bloody finale. Gore hounds will b happy but they hav to wait till the end. Its a very slow movie. Thats it. I didn't recognise (or was aware) that the Woman was Pollyanna McIntosh. Her other two films which i enjoyed (Exam n Let us prey), i saw much later aft this flick. It's directed by Lucky McKee (May, The woods, Red). Adapted from the book written by Jack Ketchum.

I had this movie on my watch list for a long time and I thought that if it had a 6 star raring for so long maybe the trailer is bad but the movie will surprise me. well, it was worst the the trailer !! the actress (maybe just beside the father and the woman) was awful. the script is so stupid in so many ways - really, she lives next to them for so many years and never noticed them?Im sorry to tell that I didn't like a thing about this movie! it was so bad in my opinion that its the first time I write a review and I felt like I had to do so in order to save others from spending 90 min from their life, like I did.bottom line - do NOT watch this one !