Product Details

• Actors: Stephen Grey, Art Hindle, Pollyana McIntosh, Tommy Nelson
• Directors: Andrew van den Houten
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: LIONSGATE
• DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002I41KMI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,762 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Offspring" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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OFFSPRING - DVD Movie

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good for direct to DVD, October 25, 2009

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A "jeangarydiablo" (Sherman Oaks, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Offspring (DVD)

Since I am a fan of Jack Ketchum's novels and this was one of my favorites I had to see it (although I have no interest in seeing his other film adaptions).

It's direct to DVD and I knew what to expect. I wasn't that disappointed, mostly because the running time is short and it has some ok production design. The location scout deserves most of the credit in this movie and it was filmed in the US (I have a thing about runaway film productions, they should be labeled as "foreign films")

This film had so much potential but is extremely lackluster. Who thought crazy, cannibal kids could be so trite? The costumes, wigs, and makeup effects look like leftovers from the bargain bin at a Halloween store a week after October 31. This alone could have saved it even from the poor acting performances (which could have been saved through editing).

I have to admit it was nice not to be bombarded with bad CGI for once.

I gave two stars for effort, the location captures the setting in the book, short running time, and being filmed in the US. You won't loose any sleep if you don't see it.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars CHILDREN OF THE CORNY, October 17, 2009

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Robert F. Powers "show maniac" (Quincy, Ma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Offspring (DVD)

The Offspring is one of those movies that's so awful you have to stare at the screen and keep watching to see if it can get any worse. It does. Cannibalistic, feral children whose idea of show and tell is disembowelment-and a simple disembowelment is a slow night to these kids. They grunt, stab, grunt, mutilate, grunt,and the quickly passed over reason for their existence is that they are the offspring of the children of a lighthouse keeper gone missing off the coast of Maine in the 19th century. I gave this movie two stars because despite the lousy plot, lousy script, lousy acting--the cannibal kids can't even grunt convincingly, the movie is so fascinatingly bad that everyone should watch it to see just how bad a movie can be. Oh scratch that thought----don't watch it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, October 6, 2009

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Offspring [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Pulp/horror writer Jack Ketchum adapts his own novel for Offspring, an interesting entry of sorts in this year's Ghost House Underground lineup. Offspring the novel, was actually a sequel to Off Season, which would have been a more logical adaptation in the first place, but nevermind that for now. Anyway, there's a clan of cannibal kids terrorizing the community, and seeking a fresh baby as well. Hounding them is a retired cop (Art Hindle) while everyone else involved gets chomped, slaughtered, and gutted; and the film makes no apologies for its tone and unsettling gore. Still though, besides some decent gore effects, Offspring features some atrocious acting from pretty much everyone involved (the cannibals in particular are so bad you can't help but laugh), and Ketchum's own screenplay doesn't help matters here either, and ends up being a shell of its source material. All in all, Offspring is worth a look just based on its disturbed content alone, but in the end, this Ketchum adaptation is a disappointment.