User reviews

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.

This movie is like an English version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Hostel. Some stupid train workers run into a group of 'Inbred' English hillbilly types out in the fields somewhere and lots of gore and especially lots of YELLING ensue.

I don't think I have ever seen a movie with so much YELLING.

But the gore is FUN. And the end, it was alright.

I would watch a sequel because it was a fun watch. 5/10.

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!

Gory 'film-within-a-film' opening scene aside, Inbred takes a bloody age to get to the good stuff and could never be accused of being all that original, the 'city-folk falling foul of rural maniacs' plot-line borrowing heavily from many sources: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The League of Gentlemen, 2000 Maniacs, Hostel, Wrong Turn, and Straw Dogs, to name just a few.

However, it's all well worth the wait, Chandon finally opening the violence valves and lifting the splatter sluice gates after forty-five minutes to transform proceedings into a gloriously demented, blood-drenched piece of xenophobic craziness that more than lives up to the gory hype. True, some of the CGI is less than perfect, but with the level of nastiness set so high, it really doesn't matter: it's easy to ignore the occasional dodgy effect when people are being hideously mutilated with such regularity, enthusiasm and imagination.

Chandon pulls out the stops to entertain in the worst possible taste, with amazingly twisted characters and a catalogue of carnage that is truly staggering, including a fantastic beheading with a meat cleaver, numerous shot gun blasts to the head and torso, a horse stomping a skull, chainsaw dismemberment, and a really disgusting 'slurry pump body explosion'. The only thing he forgets to include is some gratuitous female nudity; even Emily Booth, who has a brief cameo, keeps all of her clothes on!

It is tough to write about this movie. First and foremost, I have to admit, that I think the guy that made this, is exceptionally funny in person. Very modest and down to earth, he is a guy you can hang out with and talk to. Concerning his movie though (this one in particular), I have to say, that I couldn't really enjoy this. Not my cup of tea so to speak. I watched it at Frightfest too (as other reviewers here) and though the reviews have been mostly positive, the reaction of the crowd was split down the middle.

It's always like this with a movie that dares to be different and does not care about political correctness. But that's not my beef with it. I actually liked the main bad guy of the movie. He has charisma and brings quite a lot to his role. Unfortunately the humor the director boils it down to, never quite achieves anything (not for me that is).

Plot twists that are as weak as our "good" characters or their motivation. You are not used to people being clever in these movies, but the level of stupidity shown by some of the characters here defies explanation ... I'm not trying to tell you what to think of it, but I hope you got the mood the movie does live by and can decide for yourself, if that is worth your time

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

A group of young offenders and their care workers get more than they bargained for when they make an excursion to the aptly named Yorkshire village of Mortlake. On arrival, they receive a less-than-warm welcome from the inhabitants, a shambling, leering assortment of rural Northern stereotypes possessed of suspect genetics and psychotic intentions. Imagine Eli Roth directing The League of Gentlemen, or Eden Lake played for a (gruesome) laugh, and you've pretty much nailed the tenor taken here. Jo Hartley of This is England fame does a decent action heroine turn as one of the two care workers, and Seamus O'Neill's village pub patriarch proves a rather amusing antagonist with his rabble rousing and exaggeratedly provincial patois. Oh, and Emily Booth puts in a short-lived cameo, too! Sure, it's not essential viewing by any means, but, nevertheless, it proves an effective little hundred-minute diversion.

I bought this on DVD and turned it off half way through as it was just so bad as to be unwatchable. The acting was terrible from the younger cast members and the grade kept on changing so much scene to scene that it was distracting.

I know it's low budget but production values don't have to be forgotten entirely. It feels lazy and looks like a student film. Really not worth paying to see it or worth time to watch it. The League of Gentlemen has done this all before but a million times better in a darker more creepy way. This isn't just a 'straight to DVD' film. It's a 'straight in the bin' film.

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

I really can't believe that reviews have compared this to Hills Have Eyes because this film to me was garbage It was extremely violent and portrayed country people as homicidal maniacs. The Hills Have Eyes stars were exposed The acting is atrocious and needs a bit more tactful direction. I was expecting a far better experience. I wasn't expecting a grand Hollywood production but was expecting a better effort then this'

If you have read the reviews listed here you will know the storyline but only watch if you have a few hours to spare and a six pack to dull the senses. If you do watch this then go ahead with no particular anticipation of an enthralling experience because it is disturbing.

I knew that this would not be a good film when 2 minutes passed and we already had some cliché, as the GPS stopped working, though cellphones did not. At first characters were a little washed, but I was hoping for them to develop later. That did not occur, with some very minor exceptions, the characters, especially the young ones, were all the same, except for the differences in sex and colour. The woman, who plays the role of the female social worker, did indeed have time to develop a little bit her character,and could get a point more. The rest as the story, is nonsense, an a slayer and torture film, a la Saw, so, if you are into this type of films, you can go and rent it, you will not be disappointed. Otherwise, skip it.

I dated a girl from North Yorkshire for a while and, let me tell you, the alleged local characters in this film are a lot more civilized and sophisticated than the real inhabitants of that region! Just kidding, of course, Yorkshire people are very nice and the city of York itself is a highly recommended place to visit. What we have here is a straightforward and unmistakable UK-version of "2000 Maniacs", and thus another umpteenth gory horror flick dealing with deranged, bloodthirsty and drooling hillbillies slaughtering a bunch of (somewhat) innocent people unfortunate enough to be passing through the village. I promised myself I wouldn't be watching derivative horror flicks like these for a while, but I seem to be drawn to them like flies to; - you know.

"Inbred" is the type of film that exactly does what it promises on the tin, and in case you expected anything more, else or better, you only have yourself to blame. The film still starts off rather slow and tedious, with overlong and too detailed introductions of lead characters you know are going to die violently anyways, but once around the 45' mark, "Inbred" is an unrelentingly engrossing and trashy splatter flick. Four juvenile delinquents and their two counsellors are on a reform trip up in Northern Yorkshire. They deserve everything what's coming to them, since nobody should be as dumb to rent a cabin in a village called "Mortlake" or visit the local tavern that is named "The Dirty Hole". After being served lemonade that tastes like urine (it probably is urine) and hairy pork scratchings, the young thugs run into trouble with the locals and all hell breaks loose. If you're a fan of gore & filth, you simply must appreciate most of the butchering in "Inbred". The hicks, joyously led by hyperactive Seamus O'Neill, murder some of their victims live on stage during a sort of freaky circus show and there's plenty of bloodshed via shotguns, speeding vans, landmines and bear traps. The CGI isn't always convincing, but the gore certainly is extreme and repulsive! The mandatory banjo-music and folklore songs are naturally present as well, and the ending is much bleaker and nihilistic than I expected. Writer/director Alex Chandon will obviously never win any major film awards, but "Inbred" at least proves that he has enormously developed already since "Cradle of Fear" in 2001. That film was gross and sickening too, but even more dumb, amateurish and annoying. Recommended, but not whilst you're eating!

Inbred is a UK film about a group of youth offenders sent to do community service in a remote village. Things start to get a little nuts when the group begins meeting the village locals. This movie is awesome! It is not your typical horredy folks! Everything is totally original and unexpected. All the gore is bizarre and horrifying. I am confident when I tell you the majority of what goes down in Inbred are scenes that you've never seen before. Inbred is gory, scary, funny, witty, original, bizarre, smart and did I mention gory? The very first scene is strange and ridiculous, but just get through it because this movie deserves your attention. From beginning to end, Inbred has you on your toes guessing what will happen next and every scene will shock you until the bitter end. Oh… and did I tell you Inbred is gory?

6.5 Outta 10

Please like me on Facebook! You can read more of my reviews and get info on the latest movies in horror: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Heart-Horror/338327476286206

The word ,,Sucking" just isn't strong enough to describe the amount of badness this movie incorporates... No...this special piece of (f)art did everything to well deserve each and every negative adjective a dictionary is able to puke upon it. But let us not be held back by this. Lets just say the movie power-nuclear- vacumed so very much that i hoped the tears i shed while watching it were actually enough to drown me and every poor bystander of this premature apocalypse. In consideration of this genre, Screaming is usually a sign of a joyful success and a dearly welcomed audience reaction. In this case however it is nothing more than the embodiement of pure pain and eyesore mixed with a big splash of blood in the stool and just a little hint of suicide-thoughts. Oh what the hell..make it a genuine jump from the roof. Not showing any actual examples based on concrete scenes so far, is just my own survival reflex of remembering them. In conclusion I recommend to watch this movie with lights and eyes out.

So this movie is soo gory it's just laughable...If you like movies like Wrong Turn or Hills Have Eyes, you will enjoy this. It'a B level quality but good.

I was privileged to see this film at the recent Frightfest and thoroughly enjoyed it. The acting and production values are first class, the story is great and the dark humour running throughout the film is very entertaining. (I hesitate to use the term "black humour" in case the reviewer who thought this film was racist is offended - eee- by-gum, talk about missing the point!). I wish more films were as courageous as this one. There are also some very nice homages to classic horror films of the past. Don't want to spoil it for anyone as the trailers do not give too much away but I would totally recommend it to anyone who wants a good scare, a good laugh, and a break from the formulaic Hollywood junk being spewed out at the moment.

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.

someone wrote earlier, quote: "It is tough to write about this movie. First and foremost, I have to admit, that I think the guy that made this, is exceptionally funny in person. Very modest and down to earth, he is a guy you can hang out with and talk to. Concerning his movie though (this one in particular), I have to say, that I couldn't really enjoy this. Not my cup of tea so to speak. I watched it at Frightfest too (as other reviewers here) and though the reviews have been mostly positive, the reaction of the crowd was split down the middle.

It's always like this with a movie that dares to be different and does not care about political correctness. But that's not my beef with it. I actually liked the main bad guy of the movie. He has charisma and brings quite a lot to his role. Unfortunately the humor the director boils it down to, never quite achieves anything (not for me that is).

Plot twists that are as weak as our "good" characters or their motivation. You are not used to people being clever in these movies, but the level of stupidity shown by some of the characters here defies explanation ... I'm not trying to tell you what to think of it, but I hope you got the mood the movie does live by and can decide for yourself, if that is worth your time"

and I agree with these thoughts. and still on my own I want to add, such work must really like the sick in the head.

Well, I stumbled upon "Inbred" by random chance 10 years after it was released. Never having heard about the movie, of course I opted to sit down and watch it as it actually sounded like a fun enough movie.

But essentially then "Inbred" was just another run-of-the-mill-stumbling-upon-a-remote-community-of-inbred-mutants movie. And not one of the better ones of the kind, mind you.

Sure, "Inbred" from writers Alex Chandon and Paul Shrimpton was watchable, but it was mostly due to the visual gory scenes that there was in the movie, because the storyline was downright plain and generic, offering nothing new to the genre that haven't been seen and done better in other similar movies.

The acting in the movie was adequate, though I have to admit that there wasn't really anything outstanding to be witnessed here. Now, don't get me wrong, because people did put on good enough performances, but they were just held back by a fairly bland script and some rather lousily written characters and dialogue.

The effects in the movie were actually surprisingly good, and I have to admit that the special effects carried the movie a great long way. Actually, I will go as far as to say that the special effects and the gore alone makes it bearable to sit through "Inbred".

"Inbred" is not a movie that I would recommend you rush out to get your hands upon, because director Alex Chandon didn't really manage to churn out something extraordinary or memorable here.

My rating of "Inbred" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.