It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

"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" by Christopher Reynolds tells the story of mute serial killer John Radley who after killing nurse and escaping from mental asylum stalk and kill all those that tormented him when he was a kid.His bloody rampage is obviously Michael Myers influenced.John is no ordinary killer for example he killed and ate his own sadistic mother.He has only one friend from childhood:blonde girl named Gretchen."Offerings" is a blatant and unapologetic "Halloween" rip-off.Even its musical score clearly reminds John Carpenter's famous music.Black humor sprinkled death scenes are quite inventive but mostly goreless.Still fans of cheesy slasher movies will enjoy this low-budget horror.6 body parts out of 10.

Offerings is your basic slasher horror film. Directed, edited, written and produced by a man named Christopher Reynolds, it stars Loretta Leigh Bowman (Ya, I've never heard of her either) and a few other unknowns. John Radley is your typical neighbourhood weirdo/mute. The only difference is that he eats animals and his mother treats him like filth (including butting out her cigarettes in his breakfast). John's only friend is a girl named Gretchen. Naturally, Gretchen gets teased by everybody for hanging it with someone as introverted as John Radley. So one day the neighbourhood kids push Johnny down a well and leave him their. The incident leaves his face horribly disfigured and damages the limbic region of his brain, thus destroying any conscience he had in the first place. To make a long story short, John ends up murdering his mother, being placed under sedatives in a pysch hospital for 10 years, and breaks out after impaling a few people with needles. Get the picture? The rest of the story deals with him coming back and murdering all of the kids that did him wrong. He severs off their body parts and leaves them on the now teenage Gretchen's doorstep as his 'offerings'. It's pretty much like every other clichéd horror flick released in the 80's. One thing you're bound to notice in the first 20 minutes is that this is almost a scene-by-scene rip-off of John Carpenters 'Halloween' (Scott, I'm looking your way). No seriously, I could almost picture Carpenter watching this and cursing. We have a few Carpenter-isms to point out: An almost EXACT copy of his synthesized music, a pudgy cop who would rather bust a kid for porn then find out why body parts keep showing up randomly, horny teenage girls who would rather wear belly tops then watch the news, a psychology professor who thinks he can catch the killer and of course several ominous camera angles that either show us whatever the killer sees or shows us his eyes. All of these things add up to a very basic horror movie. I'll give it some credit though; there is a scene near the beginning that really made me cringe. I'm still trying to figure out if animals were actually killed on set. Apparently, on John's journey from the pysch back to his hometown, he eats various animals he finds in the countryside. Well our director Chris Reynolds decided to show some pretty grotesque close-ups of the carcasses-including flies! On a more supernatural note, I noticed that the guy who played the older John (Richard A. Buswell) also played a car driver in 'Rain man'. What makes this weird is the fact that these are the only two films that he's ever been in and I reviewed them both on the same night! Talk about creepy… Overall, the acting is what you'd expect in this type of film. The weird thing is that sometimes an actor will talk with a Texan sort of accent in one scene and then talk totally different in the next. I only mention this because it happened more than once; and well, it was kind of weird. The best acting performance came from a grave-digging intern who portrayed the clichéd, creepy caretaker mould to a tee. Some of the flaws of Offerings: A couple of shots blatantly cross the axis of shooting. These scenes don't even include the killer, so I don't think the director was trying to make us "feel" any sort of emotion; it just came across as being erroneous. The film is also irrevocably dark most of the time. In some scenes you can tell the only lighting present is the flashlight a character is holding. This is probably why about 90% of the movie takes place outside or around the vicinity of daylight. So aside from being overly predictable, unrealistic at times and a carbon copy of "Halloween', Offerings could do a lot worse for itself. If you found this cheap enough somewhere, it could make a pretty good purchase for 1 or 2 viewings perhaps. Actually, it would probably make a better rental.6/10

You're a kid, right? You go to all the trouble of befriending the town weirdo who is a loner and a mute. Everybody else hates him, and yet you still stand by the guy, even in the face of public ridicule. One day, a gang of them push him down a well. He receives a nasty head injury which stops him from developing a conscience. After he is rescued and returns home, he then proceeds to murder, and then eat his own mother. The men in white coats arrive, and he spends the next decade in a mental asylum. He escapes after a nurse forgetting to give him his tranquiliser is impaled through the head with it herself. He returns to his old neighbourhood, and how does he repay you for all those times you supported him years ago when no-one else would? Why, he kills all your best mates of course.. and delivers their severed body parts to your door! AND he bakes you a nice pizza with a new topping.. cooked human flesh! Ever get the feeling that winning his friendship wasn't worth the effort??This is a standard slasher flick with the usual assortment of dumb teenagers who just wanna make out, an overweight sheriff who becomes slowly more exasperated about what is happening in his formerly peaceful town and the remorseless killer who has just one line of dialogue at the end. The murder scenes are directed reasonably well, but in a predictable, stale fashion which leaves no room for surprises. There is a strange moment in a cemetery when a weird gravedigger is interviewed about what he saw.. his performance is so strange it's like something out of a different picture. But this is the only off-kilter moment in a film that could have done with a few more of them. Don't think you're a genius if you can guess the rest of the plot after 20 minutes. I did, and I'm certainly no member of MENSA.. 4/10 P.S What DID happen to Gretchen's dog?!