Wednesday 6 March 2019

Inbred - It's grim (and dangerous) oop norf

Simple premise: think '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.  I'm embarrassed to say that I actually own the DVD and have now watched it at least three (maybe four?) times.  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.  It's definitely not meant to be taken seriously.  I couldn't help but laugh at the locals who are basically 'normal' actors who have been given stupid wigs and fake overbites.  The real stand-out is the main nutter ('Jim') who runs the pub and seems to relish in his pure insane evilness.  He and the rest of his inbred cohorts are definitely more fun to watch that the 'protagonists' who are pretty stereotypical, but at least they look different enough to each other so that we - the audience - don't get confused as to who's who.

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.  The gore and violence is deliberately extreme (and dare I say inventive?) and the whole film is pretty politically INcorrect, so if you think you may be offended easily then this is definitely one for you to avoid.  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.  I've never known a film that depicts so many 'improper' ways to use vegetables!

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that

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