Inbred

I can't decide what scale to judge "Inbred", a 2011, low budget British horror/comedy, against. It's certainly an impressive piece of work, for the budget but, could I honestly say that I enjoyed it, or would want to watch it again? Not really.

Four young offenders, mouthy Dwight (Chris Waller), fashion conscious Zeb (Terry Hayward), troubled Firestarter Tim (James Burrows) and near mute Sam (Nadine Mulkerrin) are taken for an outward-bound experience in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake. Along with their caseworkers, Kate (Jo Hartley) and Jeff (James Doherty), the group eventually fall foul of the locals, and the conflict escalates to become a nightmare of death and carnage.

So, as far as low budget films go that are some aspects of this one that are pretty appealing. From a technical standpoint, it's well shot. The wide panoramas showing the North Yorkshire Moors off manage to both look appealing and give a sense of the isolation that the group are faced with. The visual effects are really good too, both the practical ones and the CGI blends are really well done. There's an inventiveness to some of the slaughter as horses and a slurry pipe are put to use, alongside the chainsaws, shotguns and hatchets that you might have anticipated.

That said, the characters aren't particularly interesting - particularly our four lead youngsters. None of the actors do anything particularly bad, it's more in how they are written, James Doherty falls into that cliché too, with his fastidious turn as their trip organiser. There are cameos from Mat Fraser and Dominic Brunt. The films real problem though is pace, with next to nothing happening for the first 45 minutes, followed by a sudden shift up the scale to madness and then the rest of the film plays out much as you might anticipate.

Despite its moments of wild abandon, and the impressive effects, ultimately the film struggled to hold my attention.

I don't know how to explain this film, other than it was messy. Very interesting and strange, but a messy look on it. The characters were very annoying and way too loud all the way through the film, the hillbillys were insane and absolute freaks. It was a very uncomfortable movie to watch, a lot of the senses, especially the two boys in the show, will never get out of my head.

I don't know how a normal person could come up with a movie like this and enjoy creating it. It wasn't scary, It was just very uncomfortable and had a weird feeling all the way through it. It wasn't an awful film at all, because it is memorable, it leaves a strange effect on you if you are easily freaked out by the amount of gore constantly throughout the movie.

As soon as i watched it all and turned it off, I was very annoyed at myself for even deciding to put it on in the first place, because i knew i wouldn't forget it.

The end of the movie was a hit of a let down though, killing off the outsiders just had less effort throughout. But it's kind of tongue in cheek at some point between the hillbilly's, they're funny, but also terrifying and absolutely crazy, I wouldn't want to come across them in my lifetime EVER!

Ha! I've been to Yorkshire loads of times and have only been chopped up by yokels a couple of times. The rest of the time it's been lovely. Good food! But now after watching this I think I might have ate human flesh a couple of times.

Four annoying teenagers and two social workers head off to some backward town in Yorkshire for some reason and quickly realise that the residents are a bit Royston Vasey (the League of Gentleman is a BIG influence on this film). So what started out as a group exercise quickly turns into a total gore fest as our non-locals try to escape being forced into one of the sickest 'shows' you'll ever see.

Honestly, this is one of those 'folks being carved up by locals' films, but with a healthy does of British sarcasm! That guy you see with the twitch and chainsaw? That's Paddy from soap opera Emmerdale! Points for that! And he's great! The outsiders go up against the local and it's literally an explosion of blood and guts, folks are cut in half, have their heads blown off, are stamped by horses, and one guy is forced full of cow crap until he explodes! This film is mental and without the humour may not have worked, but it worked for me! Paddy also made a zombie film...I'm well tracking that down...

Five things the film does right:

1. The most irritating character gets chopped up first.

2. The gore is genuinely disturbing, this is not a film for the squeamish.

3. Some very inventive deaths... my favourite is the one where the guy is forcefed with the muckspreader...

4. The ending was somewhat... Unexpected (In a good way).

5. The mutants sing a catchy little song about killing outsiders throughout, but we only hear one verse. If you have the full version, PM me.

Five things the film does wrong:

1. More characters making stupid decisions... Would you REALLY leave all your mobile phones at home if you were in a village full of deformed cannibals? The list goes on...

2. Yes, we know they're in fear for their lives, but there is some serious overacting here from the potential victims.

3. The film LIES to us... it says that the best holiday a young offender in custody can hope for is a week away collecting scrap metal from abandoned railways, when the truth is probably more along the lines of Sun, Sea and Surf in Spain. At the taxpayer's expense of course...

4. The director seems to believe that just looking at the freaks of nature that inhabit the ramshackle village should be enough to scare you. I dunno, I reckon I've seen far more fearful specimens staggering about my town centre on a Saturday night. Mostly wearing Crocs and ill-fitting boob tubes. If you didn't laugh, you'd...

5. The resale value for it on eBay could be higher...

That's it. I'm off down the pub for some lemonade and a packet of hairy pork scratchings. Care to join me? ;) 5/10

It has taken Alex Chandon, the director 10 years to make another horror after the much acclaimed Cradle Of Fear (2001). Was it worth the wait, well on part of the script we all have seen it before, a group of offenders and their workers are out for a weekend to get to know each other much better. That takes 15 minutes into this flick before it all goes wrong. But even then it takes a while before the real horror comes in. But if you have the patient to wait long enough you will be rewarded by gore galore.

If you see the opening with Emily Booth then you know what you will get. But once back in time it takes indeed a while before a small accident becomes an atrocity. It doesn't has a Hollywood ending. What do works are the effects used. For a flick like that they really looked great, okay CGI but you have to do it that way here for such kind of gorefest. A small wink to Texas Chainsaw when Podge is swinging with his chainsaw.

Not bad at all, don't think to see a flick with a great story like Kill List (2011) but a pure delight for gorehounds.

Gore 4/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5