Kim Heniadis I first heard of Jack Ketchum, whose story this movie is based off of, when I was looking at some website and it mentioned the book, The Girl Next Door. Although I haven't read it yet, his name and the book title has stuck with me, since it's suppose to be disturbing. If The Girl Next Door is as anything like Offspring, then yes it will be.After the watching the movie, (I'll get to that in a second), I did a quick search on Ketchum and got this from Wikipedia; "Later, in his teenage years, Ketchum was befriended by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, who became a mentor to him. He supported Ketchum's work just as his work was supported by his own mentor, H.P. Lovecraft." That would definitely help to explain how his unique mindset was encouraged to grow.From the first part of the movie, where the cannibal children are sitting on the kitchen counters cackling in happiness surrounded by blood and guts to the rest of the movie with them jumping out and biting people, I said out loud, "And that is one more reason why I didn't have kids."But it was so much more than kids doing that, there was also their inbred parents, along with lots of topless women, and creepy sexual encounters.If you enjoy a gore fest, this is one you'll probably want to watch, since there was lots of blood, body parts, and eating of flesh. The pulling out the the intestines was a nice touch.Movies with inbred people creep me out the most. I can handle clowns and dolls, but people with teeth missing and who only communicate in grunts, is just too close to something that could actually happen.

johnathan smith I would suggest you read the book. The acting wasn't horrible. Except for the Neanderthals. All their grunting and screaming got old. In the very beginning there's a naked girl and I thought, this can't be bad. I was wrong. It's as if they went looking for the ugliest naked girl they could find. There's also some kind of weird pederast sex going on with an old guy that just lays in the dirt making noises. Also, weirdly, Neanderthals shave their faces, legs and vaginas. Then there's the strange sadist caveman rape scene which includes the caveman biting off the girl's labia. The problem with the movie is that it doesn't really explain any of this any better than I did. The he only redeeming quality of this movie was titties. And even they weren't that great. If none of this deters you from seeing this film, they also kill a couple babies in it. But if you're into that kind of thing...

charlytully Yes, according to one of my old contacts in Lansing, new Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder eliminated the Wolverine state's most-generous-in-America tax credits for the film industry the day after viewing Jack Ketchum's made-on-Lake-Michigan fiasco flick in the executive mansion screening room. (Snyder lives elsewhere; he only goes to his official digs to view movies on nights he has to "sleep over" in the state capital). "I may be just a nerd," his honor sniffed, "but I know a hack job when I see one."To summarize the governor's comments, which were too lengthy to repeat verbatim here, he had a problem with all of the victims in OFFSPRING being "dumber than Petoskey Stones" (which happen to be our official state lapidary fodder). "I know we in business school always made fun of the CJ (criminal justice) majors, but heck, even Barney Fife would not have died on the beach like that, let alone three officers with guns. And those killer kids were not even supposed to have any special zombie powers!" Secondly, his excellency opined, the "Second Stolen" character was built like a 13-year-old girl, so WHY did she wander the woods NUDE (except for her waist-high knife sheath belt), while she put on a surprisingly well-preserved padded bra to have sex in the privacy of her cannibal cave? And regarding all this literal self-flagellation she performed when alone in the woods: why didn't she buy something with DEET, if the horseflies were so bad?Speaking of conundrums, our self-styled Nerd Boy continued, how is it the cannibals spent most of their time trudging along the low sand dunes of Lake Michigan's Norton Shores, but whenever they looked up the camera showed the craggy outcroppings of Lake Superior (including the iconic rock formation named Miners' Castle near Munising) 489 miles away?Gov. Snyder closed by observing that the only silver lining in OFFSPRING's cloud is that Michigan is somehow standing in for Maine's Atlantic coast. "As the credits started to roll, I realized it was my civic duty to nip this movie malarkey in the bud, before some other bozo makes an equally asinine film that includes characters KNOWINGLY in our Great Lakes State Winter Wonderland."To which I might add a personal "Amen," what with the bar being raised so high recently by CATFISH and Eminem's Superbowl Chrysler ad.

lastliberal I haven't read the novel this is adapted from, and it probably wouldn't make a difference, as I understand it is really adapted from two novels. I really don't like comparing books to movies anyway. Each should stand on their own as an art form.This is the kind of film that drives States mad when they pay filmmakers to move their productions to their States. I wonder if Michigan paid money to offset the costs of this cannibalistic treat, Canadian actor Art Hindle, plays George, an ex-cop who has previous experience with these cannibals. He leads the Sheriff's posse when they are tracking the cannibals after a murder. There is enough blood and gore to satisfy the most fanatic horror hound.