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Good movie but grossly overrated

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

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.

This movie does have some good moments. It didn't scare me, at all. I should've known there'd be a goofy police officer. There was also a few predictable scenes of when someone was going to die.I won't be in denial, but I admit I liked this movie a little bit. It is obvious it isn't an award worthy movie. There are much worse movies and horror movies out there, compared to Offerings.The one soundtrack song, in this movie, is really from Haloween's theme. There's no doubt about it. Notice: This is my very first review, on IMDb, so I'm still new to typing reviews. My first one was on Yahoo, years ago.

Offerings (1989)* 1/2 (out of 4) Ten years after being pushed down a well and cracking his skull open, a psychopath escapes from a mental asylum and returns home where he plans on killing those who pushed him. The psycho murders one person after another but saves his female friend at the time for last while the Sheriff and his therapist try to locate and stop him. OFFERINGS is a very, very bad movies. There's simply no way around that but at the same time it's a must-see simply because of how much of a rip-off of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN it is. You might be saying to yourself what's the big deal because countless movies ripped HALLOWEEN. The big deal is that this film rips off just about everything in that film. We have the heavy breathing. We have a couple of the same type of murders. We have the opening piece to set up the film and then flash to the mental hospital. We visit the killer's house which of course is now a mess. The killer messes up a tomb at the cemetery. We have our main female picking up a mysterious phone call only to hang up and then a call back. The same female lead in class when the teacher asks her a question. I could name at least fifteen more scenes that are pretty much identical to the Carpenter flick but the most glaring rip is the music score, which is pretty much the very same score except that the one here is in a different tempo!! I'm really not sure how in the hell this thing was able to be released without the director or producer getting sued. There are a few movies here and there that aren't able to get released in this country because of them ripping off other films (ABBY and THE LAST SHARK come to mind) but this thing here is just downright crazy in how open it is in terms of ripping off. As you'd expect, the performances are all rather bad but I must admit that I loved G. Michael Smith as the overweight, redneck Sheriff. I thought the actor was a lot of fun in the part and he also gets some of the best dialogue in one of the most head-scratching scenes. The two females find a severed ear on their porch so they call up the Sheriff who puts the ear in a bag and then asks them if they've noticed anything strange going on. Do what?!?!?!? Is finding ears a common thing in this town? Another highlight is a scene where the killer (off screen) kills the pizza guy and later delivers the pizzas to the house where our lead and her friends are. The kids eat the pizza but don't remember ordering sausage but it turns out that it's the pizza man they're eating! There are so many amazing things going on in this thing that it's impossible not to recommend it to every horror fan out there. No one is going to find it to be a "good" movie but the thing is so incredibly weird that you can't help but be entertained by it.

Mute kid Johnny and his friend Gretchen are taunted by some kids and he accidentally falls down a well. Insert "Ten Years Later" title card. The grown Johnny escapes from a mental institution (he was there for killing and eating his mother, apparently a result of the brain damage he suffered from the fall) and heads back to his hometown to get revenge on the kids who tormented him. Totally bad news as the grown Gretchen (Loretta Leigh Bowman) and Kacy (Elizabeth Greene) are, like, totally having a sleepover. Ohmygawd! On the case are Sheriff Chisum (G. Michael Smith) and Prof. Sam Loomis, er, Jim Paxton (Jerry Brewer).I love me some 80s slashers but this one always eluded me. I'm disappointed after finally seeing it because I had seen it before - under the title HALLOWEEN! Seriously, this rips off so much of John Carpenter's classic that I was surprised it didn't say "a Rob Zombie film" in the opening credits. Everything from Carpenter's film is in here from the heavy breathing guy standing behind trees to the boarded up killer's house (where someone apparently still does the lawn). Hell, the musical score IS Carpenter's work but played at a different tempo. The only major difference is the girls in this speak in a Valley Girl tone. I guess the fad finally hit Oklahoma, where this was lensed, in the late 80s. Director Christopher Reynolds cameos in a hospital scene as a doctor. He also delivers the film's most memorable lines: "The one you need to look out for is Mr. Franks. Every time he craps, he thinks he is having an abortion. Man, he sure has had some ugly kids."

I totally agree with the main commentary about this film.The characters in this film are so stupid, you wonder how they can tie their own shoes or open a door.Not a spoiler: I can give an example-bad things start to happen at one of the character's house.It keeps getting worse and the cops do arrive. Do they say 'Go someplace safe" or 'Get away from the house."NO! They tell them to stay put. Do the characters run to another place? NO!This is a slasher film that should be put in the 'very bargain bin'(as in .1 cent bin)You know the killer is after revenge. Yet, you wonder if the killer gets they already have revenge knowing they have more brain cells than anyone else in town.The acting is bad and the storyline seemed to have been invented by someone sort of watching a slasher film one night before a deadline of some sort.AVOID-I can't say this enough.That said-it does have material to make fun of for about 15 minutes.(it just gets to pathetic to continue)