They have made two Jack Ketchum books into films, first the excellent The Girl Next Door and then The Lost, but neither of them were 100% horror. Horror fans have been waiting for them to get around to making Offspring and that time is finally here.
The studio who brought you The Girl Next Door is currently working on bringing Offspring to the big screen. The screenplay was written by Jack Ketchum himself, and it will be directed by Andrew van den Houten (Headspace).
So hurry up and buy Offspring here
Buy Off Season here
From Jack Ketchum’s website:
The sequel to the one that started it all, Off Season.
THE STORY BEHIND THE GRUESOME LEGEND….
Twenty years ago….It shocked horror fans everywhere — Jack Ketchum’s Off Season , the brutal and harrowing story of an inbred family of cannibals in present-day Maine. Some readers were horrified, others outraged. Yet no one could put the book down. An instant cult classic.
THE LEGEND LIVES ON!
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he’d killed them off ten years ago… a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. But somehow, the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. Now the peaceful residents, who came to Dead River to escape civilization, are fighting for their lives….
