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Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Jonah Abbott
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Ed Pond
There may have been some potential for a more understated and tasteful film here, like the also British based 'Straw Dogs' or 'The Wicker Man'. Alas, it went for the 'torture porn' thing and had dubious politics. Mix this with shoddy writing, acting, and technical production, and you have a real stinker. I'm not really into the 'Saws' and 'Hostels' of this world, but they at least were slickly created. The film felt nasty, tawdry and gratuitous, which is not always a damning problem for a horror movie. It is trying to create horror, after all. To make for staying power, this however needs to be balanced with some social commentary or morality, and 'Inbred' does not do it (well, the name would suggest this). What you get instead is a rather racist portrayal of Yorkshire and the countryside in general. The antagonists are written off as freaks, which just appears dismissive of mental illness and disability. What you should do is get inside the antagonists' personal motivations - them simply doing bad things because they are 'inbred' is reactionary and not good enough. The ending lacks morality also.There are some odd traditions up North and in rural England, some involving plays or parades with blacked up (not to resemble black people, incidentally) characters. There was some mileage in that concept - but they just squandered it. Avoid like those social workers and kids really should have done.
Bezenby
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...
bowmanblue
Simple premise: thing Deliverance in the north of England. Two probation workers take their four young teenage tearaways on some sort of 'bonding' exercise to a remote village in the north of England. Guess what? The locals don't take kindly to strangers! Yes, it's another one of those slasher/torture p**n films. Now you know that you can decide if it's for you. If you don't think it is, don't bother with it as you'll hate it. However, if you like blood and entrails being hurled around, you may like to know that the gore is pretty well done (especially on its low budget), plus the inbred yokels are pretty damn evil (in a good way that will have you almost rooting for them over the pretty unlikeable criminal teenagers who spend much of their time screaming and running in the wrong direction).It's also pretty tongue-in-cheek. It's not really meant to be taken that seriously, so hopefully you'll forgive the 'heroes' when they run straight back into dangerous situations instead of simply getting the hell out of there.If you like daft, low-budget horror, then there are worse ways you can spend an hour and a half of your film-viewing life.I'm just glad I live in the south of England and no one who lives near me feels the need to wear a pig mask and clap rocks together in a show of appreciation.
Rich Wright
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