What a beautiful movie!

Dreadfully Boring

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

You'll know right from the very first minutes of Offerings that the director is a huge Halloween fan. The basic story of a little boy returning home after a stay in a mental hospital and terrorizing young women is Halloween to a T. The music is so similar to John Carpenter's seminal classic that one wonders how the filmmakers of Offerings weren't sued.There isn't really a scary or suspenseful bone in Offerings' body, but there's tons of downhome charm, quirky performances, and entertaining set pieces to keep it from being an unwatchable rip off. All the girls seem to have some dazed expression on their face for most of the film and a few of them speak in a strange southern meets valley girl accent that's a real hoot.A few of the murder scenes are fairly well staged and done with a bit of panache as well.This one won't reinvent the wheel, but it's a fun time killer.

"Offerings" isn't a Horror classic. It is a small film, that has a story the short description pretty much sums up already. Nevertheless I had some fun with it. It keeps you entertained, it doesn't get boring and provides everything that you can expect from a mid-budget 80's Horror film.Some of the details are nonsense of course. I doubt that someone becomes a serial killer just because he fell on his head as a child as well as it is pretty cheesy how the movie ends. But to be honest, I didn't really expect else. Sure, you could have made it a better movie by providing a more emotional or detailed background story, you could have depicted the character in a more realistic and less plump way.But if you are just looking for an entertaining one-time watch this will serve you well. All in all I don't feel like complaining.

OFFERINGS is a cheap and low budget rip-off of HALLOWEEN, featuring a tinkly score that openly rips off John Carpenter's music throughout and a plot which is very similar. Not only that, but the events of the story take place over a single dark night and there's a prologue back story setting up the main tale. Basically, you couldn't get closer to HALLOWEEN if you tried.Invariably this is the lesser of the two films, as this is just too cheesy and low budget to be effective. The acting is as typically poor as you'd expect from a B-movie, with lots of stilted dialogue from the guys and endless screaming from the girls. There's some mild gore here and there but most of the icky stuff takes the form of severed body parts that are left for the main character to discover. As for scariness, don't expect any; this is by rote throughout, and laughable instead of frightening.

Even though it came out over a decade later, "Offerings" is a generic, but decent little low-rent, shot-on-video slasher offering which resembles the influential John Carpenter slasher "Halloween". It might be a blatant rip-off; from it's music score, camera positioning, set-pieces, suburbia setting and silent, unstoppable killer. I expected much worse and came away rather enjoying (even if it was for a good laugh), but nonetheless it was efficiently executed for such a trim, low-scale production.A young, slightly disturb boy John Radley accidentally falls down a well, which was caused by some bullying. Ten year later we find out he's hospitalised in a coma state, after killing his mother and bearing the bump on his head from the fall. One night he suddenly awakes, goes back to his hometown and kills those who bullied him. While the only girl that was nice to him, he leaves special gifts for Gretchen (one involves a pizza topping).The threadbare plot is twisted with its psychotic angle (as there are some unpleasant, if not particularly graphic deaths), but some plot details are rather vague, mainly between the time he falls in the well and when it moves to the present time when he's in the coma. Then it moves to the set-pieces, where the body count rises and some random, offbeat inclusions (a humorous interaction between the town sheriff and prevent kid) find their way in. Got to say the sheriff is rather slow off the blocks to putting the pieces together. Radley is the typical Myer's clone (robust, deformed and silent) and even the way they use him in shots has you thinking of "Halloween"… don't forget the heavy breathing. Some atmospheric moments, are mainly broken up by its ominously cheap jolts and tatty, but minor blood splatter. The acting might be somewhat lousy, but Loretta Leigh Bowman was capable enough in lead.Imitatively cheesy, but its copy and paste simplicity amusingly works.