The Offering
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in the family morgue, an ancient evil with sinister plans for the unborn child lurks inside a mysterious corpse.
- Released: 2023-01-11
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Genre: Horror
- Stars: Allan Corduner, Nick Blood, Emm Wiseman, Jonathan Yunger, Daniel Ben Zenou, Nathan Cooper, Sofia Weldon, Boyan Anev, Yonko Dimitrov, Jodie Jacobs
- Director:
Comments
- mesoreznica - 13 January 2024
Good horror that made a big mistake
It is not a bad movie. It starts great and builds with great story.
I like the details. The thing I love in horror movies is the danger you can feel in the background. If movie can do that...then it works. And they do that here with story right up to the point we se the demon in the middle of the movie....and from here on everything goes down quickly. The demon looks like lost old dead goat that was run over by truck. Not scarry at all. I mean wtf??? After that everything revolves around demon. And because he is not scarry nothing else makes sense. It was more funny then scarry. Shame.
That demon was really big big mistake. Who the hell designed that thing. And it was center of the whole story!!
It could be a good movie if demon was not funny as hell. - jtindahouse - 29 August 2023
Everything I hate in a horror film is here
'The Offering' may just have been the straw that broke the camels back for me. I've seen some uninspired horror movies in my time but my goodness this was a battle to sit through. It actually made me go through my watch-list and remove a bunch of similar films for fear that they would be as excruciating as this one. This was not a fun ride.
Everything that I hate in a horror movie can be found here. Fake jump scares, fake dream sequences, characters that somehow get no development and are also unlikable at the same time. It's all there. The film is never scary either. Not even for one scene.
I think the horror genre still has a lot to offer, but the "religious horror' films are doing the genre no favours. There were a couple of good ones early but they are just becoming lazier and less inspired with every year that goes by, and 'The Offering' is a great example of that. This is not one I'd recommend. A generous 3/10.
