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.

OFFSPRING is a Z-grade B-movie made entirely without merit or a reason to watch. It's an ultra-cheap slice of gore in which various uninteresting characters are menaced by a clan of Neanderthal-style cannibals who spend the movie cutting up bodies and devouring them.

That's all there is to the film so anyone looking for depth, plot twists or an immersive viewing experience is likely to be disappointed. The film was of slight interest at the outset given that it's based on a book by noted author Jack Ketchum with the screenplay also written by him, but the poor execution wastes all that promise.

The cast is also uninteresting, with only minor parts for Pollyanna McIntosh (EXAM) as the feral clan leader and poor old Art Hindle (who you may remember from the excellent 1978 version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS) playing a guy investigating the murders. There's a lot of cheap gore but that's no reason to tune in either.

The DVD box cover for "Offspring" brandishes 'brutal... gruesome... shocking'. I wonder if whomever at horror.com who wrote this actually watched the same movie as I have watched. Because this movie was anything but those three things.

The story is about a clan of flesh-eating cave-dwelling savages whom prey upon people in Dead River, Maine.

Right... This storyline was so fundamentally ridiculous that I gave up on the movie after 35 minutes and stopped it to watch something else. So the audience is to believe that in this day and age that flesh-eating savages still exist and roam the hillsides? And better yet, they are smart enough to use modern day tools and cover up their private parts because this is what their lack of exposure to society and mannerism has taught them. Right...

The whole concept of the movie was ludicrous, and was delivered by the actors and actresses with no conviction, which just made it even more difficult to buy into the story and the world that director Andrew Van Den Houten was trying to sell with "Offspring".

This movie will quietly go to die on the DVD shelf, never to see the light of day again. This was without a doubt one of the worst movies that I have stumbled upon.