Of course there are those who will propose that Offspring is primarily a bloody, gore-fest and that if the film succeeds in delivering the carnage, it's a success. All I can say is that if baby dolls smeared with blood in plastic bags and the sporadic blood spraying of an insecticide pump filling in for a severed vein, there isn't much here to recommend. He was simply trying to write pulp slasher fiction and didn't care about character development and can't be judged too harshly for not doing it. Breakout Villain: The Woman originally appeared as one member of a cannibal clan in the novel Offspring and died at the end of it. Pollyanna McIntosh's performance in the film adaptation was so impressive the ending was changed as a way to allow the character to appear in future installments. The Woman later become the central character of her own novel and McIntosh would go on to reprise the character for two more films.

I discovered OFF SEASON in an odd way. Or, rather, during a strange, profound moment of time of my life where everything became stark & even the most mundane things seemed to become inedible. Captured, Crystallized.

Novels by Jack Ketchum with their own pages:

This edition is slightly different than the original American edition, but not as complete as The Unexpurgated Edition. Plot-Triggering Death: Red opens with the senseless murder of an old man’s dog. The rest of the novel is about the old man seeking justice for it. This book was no holds barred in all departments. The afterward by the author highlights how graphic the book was for its times, but it still is. Put it this way, if it were to be adapted Rob Zombie would be the man to do it. However, the violence, sex etc all suit the story. So to answer the question the book delivers on its promises! The narrator was also a good match to the story. Bleiler, Richard (January 1, 2003). Supernatural Fiction Writers: Guy Gavriel Kay to Roger Zelazny (2nded.). Charles Scribner's Sons. p.517. ISBN 978-0-6843-1252-1. And what's most strange about this film is that Ketchum wrote the screenplay. And by God, I can't tell if it's just the amateur acting that makes the writing seem poor, or it's the writing itself. The more I think about Offspring the more I'm thinking the actors aren't to blame. Sure they stunk, but I hate to say it but Ketchum's screenplay writing isn't up to snuff. I also throw a lot of the blame on the director as well.

Off Season is about a woman who rents a cabin on the outskirts of town near the ocean. She has the house for a couple of weeks so she can get an editing project completed and spend some time vacationing and relaxing. Shortly after she gets to the house, her sister and some friends arrive to spend a few days with her in the cabin. Unfortunately for them, there's a group of savages in the area who live off the land and its inhabitants. When Amy and David invite their troubled friend Claire and her eight year old son Luke to their country house to meet their infant daughter Melissa they have no idea that terrors from the past are going to change their plans. Little filthy beasts with sharpened teeth and weapons inflict permanent damage to the family in ways that are better no thought about for too long, some things are just too much to bear. Their struggle to survive is the main focus of the story, with the help of the police the tale flowed well but these kids seemed too strong, I cant imagine having a problem defending myself against kids... And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive. Offspring has a pretty much identical set up to the first book. The first half establishes a set of core characters in the town of Dead River, Maine, who are then terrorised in the remainder of the story by those nasty cannibals. But this one had a number of differences that kept things fresh enough to still be an enjoyable read.Except - and this is a big exception - events aren't quite so big, bold and nasty in the sequel. Published ten years after the original novel, I can't help but wonder if Ketchum mellowed a bit in the intervening decade. Terrible things still do happen - many of them to the sympathetic characters - but one only has to compare the endings of each novel to appreciate this possibility. In The Unexpurgated Edition of Off Season, the hero is killed at the eleventh hour. In Offspring, the hero miraculously survives in a moment that would likely give Lazerus pause.

When Marc Jaffe at Ballantine bought the book it was on the condition that I’d be willing to rewrite. And I was. Of course I was. It was my first novel and I was delighted to have the contract. Did they think I was crazy? I’d rewrite in a minute. We were all very much aware that the book was over-the-top violence-wise, that it had the kind of teeth pretty much unseen before in mass-market fiction. It was just that quality that they were buying. But I knew I’d have to make some cuts. You're in the mood for a gory, and I mean GRUESOME film? Watch the clichéd-filled and grisly film: Offspring. Honestly, there's no other reason to watch it. 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.Descubrí este libro por casualidad, trasteando por Goodreads. Aunque prefiero el terror paranormal, el canibalismo es un tema que me genera una inquietud atávica, primitiva. Algo que rechina en el fondo del cerebro como uñas sobre una pizarra.

I hope the above makes clear that despite the ill-informed, slanted view of cannibals at times portrayed in this book, this community has many positive qualities and deserves to be treated fairly and with respect. I just wish the author would have made the brave choice and not pandered to the more powerful "anti" cannibal segment of the population. En fin, salvajismo puro. Como una peli de serie B a altas horas de la madrugada que no se guarda ni un detalle. Morbosidad truculenta no apta para estómagos sensibles. Es lo que es, y la he disfrutado. While I really liked this book, I feel compelled to make a few introductory remarks before I discuss the specific merits of the story. I will give Mr. Ketchum the benefit of the doubt and say that I do not believe it was his intention in writing this book to come across as a snobby, elitist, “anti” cannibal bigot. However, the fact remains that this novel is yet another example of popular media perpetrating the negative stereotype of cannibalism. I feel it's long past time to give a more balanced view of the subject in the hopes of fostering greater understanding of this alternative lifestyle. Several of his works have inspired movies. His short story 'The Box' inspired a segment of the anthology horror film XX. Off Season is a tale of feral cannibals setting upon a cabin full of city folk in the Maine woods. That's pretty much the entire plot. It's a combination of survival horror and gore horror, particular emphasis on the gore.

Finally, I believe it's critical to recognize that cannibalism is an excellent way to make a positive contribution to the environment. In addition to using very few fossil fuels or other products damaging to the environment, consumers of humans also help prevent ecological damage that can arise in areas with excess population growth. They are one of the most ecologically conscious consumer groups and have long been associated with the “Green” movement. After a little research into the author, I was intrigued. Ketchum is There's a tiny town somewhere in America where a gang of cannibals are living in a cave on the beach. These cannibals all have clothes made of animal skin like cavemen, despite living close enough to civilisation to steal some clothes from a washing line every now and then. Also if you're making clothes out of animals why not eat them instead of people and if you're having to resort to cannibalism it might not be such a good idea stealing babies and making your group larger, stupid idiots. Anyway these guys talk in some stupid growly language and have names for each other like eartheater and other dumb crap like that. When they talk their growl language you get really rubbish looking subtitles come up on screen. All their dialogue is embarrassing tripe designed to make you cringe. This is the follow up to the book OFF SEASON and it was written about 11 years after the first one. For the Evulz: The villains in The Lost and Joyride kill for no other reason than wanting to kill someone.