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John
Radley is a young, mute boy. His mother treats
him like trash and he only has one friend, Gretchen.
One day, a couple of kids from the neighbourhood
decide to push John into a well, leaving John with
a severe head injury. He goes back home and kills
his mother and then eats her. Ten years later, John
has escaped from the mental institution and is out
to get revenge on everyone who were mean to him back
when he was a kid.
Some slashers should stay forgotten and Offerings is
definitely one of them. This blatant Halloween rip-off
is excruciatingly dull and left me with an urge to
jam a fork into my hand just so that I wouldn't have
to spend time on actually writing a review for it.
But here we are anyway, and I feel that it is my
duty to warn all fellow slasher fans about this
soul-less movie which tries to shamelessly copy John
Carpenter's masterpiece in any way that it can.
I was actually surprised to see that the killer didn't
wear a mask.
So you all know the story, kid gets bullied, kid gets
sent off to a mental institution, kid returns years
later to take revenge on bullies. Nothing new here
at all, and while Halloween was one of the first
slasher flicks with this concept, many slasher flicks
have copied this story-line since so that's not
necessarily what makes this a Halloween rip-off but
I'll get more into detail about that later. Anywho,
Gretchen is having a small get-together at her house
and - yawn - starts receiving body parts on her porch.
Could these be gifts from her child-hood friend John?
The story might seem like any other slasher movie
to you but believe you me, it's like watching a really
bad, fan-made Halloween sequel. We basically have
most of the same characters (although here they are
played by lousy actors with strong dialects - the
movie was shot in Oklahoma), we basically have the
same concept and hey, we have the exact same soundtrack
as well, only slightly altered.
Offerings probably does deserve a rating of 1/5
really but since it even copied the theme melody
from Halloween, I just can't bare myself to give
it that rating. It's an incredibly dull slasher
flick without a single original bone in it and
I sure didn't enjoy having to sit through this mess
so I hope that I've at least saved one of you from
checking this movie out.
Some cheap-looking dismembered body parts and a
decapitated body which looks very fake.
Well the soundtrack kicks ass, but of course it
does since it's John Carpenter's creepy score for
Halloween, just slightly altered. How dare they!
A miserable Halloween rip-off which should never
have seen the light of day. It's dull, it's poorly
executed and it's just not a good movie at all.
Perhaps fun to watch if you're from Oklahoma but
I highly doubt it.
Review By: AnthroFred
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