John’s Horror Corner: Inbred (2011), an ultra-gory, pretty cheaply made British horror comedy.

MY CALL: This British “hillbilly horror” may just be the bad movie you’re looking for if you enjoy insufferably awful writing complemented by ambitiously very graphic, low budget gore. But frankly, this movie just didn’t give me enough recommend it.

On a team-building weekend trip, a group of teen delinquents (including Chris Waller; Fright Night 2) and their chaperone caretakers (James Doherty and Jo Hartley; Slaughterhouse Rulez, Prevenge) clean up a condemned cottage and salvage valuable from an abandoned train depot in the remote village of Mortlake. The Mortlake locals include some horrendously toothy mouths. Truly, these fake teeth are ill-fit and look laughably stupid. And just as stupid, the acting and writing is pretty rough. The first 40 minutes is a brutally boring slog. And even once the violence and gore kick off, the scenes in between just drag.

A hostile interaction with some of the locals results in an accidental injury which spirals out of control into murder and really weird abduction. These inbred hillbillies restrain and torture their victims as part of a literal “performance” for the locals. Produce is jammed into one victim’s nostrils as a thonged organist scores the live act. There’s a completely lackluster death by “casually walking horse” and the derpy locals applaud by clacking rocks together like cavemen. Another victim is orally pumped full of farm feces until he literally explodes on the elated audience. And yes, some of these moments were enjoyable. But they were just that—“moments.” Moments amid long stretches of “why am I watching this?”

The gore highlight for me was a silly mangled hand, mutilated from a gunshot. Or perhaps the simplicity of the landmine explosion of one of the delinquents. These amounted to more than just moments, but hardly qualified as anything more than brief scenes. I wanted more of this, but I suspect budget was the limiting culprit here.

When there is violence, it transpires entirely on-screen, it’s brutally abrupt and graphic, and quite gory. The special effects rely noticeably on CGI. But the CGI is more to its complement than its detriment. Again, budget and brevity are what hamstring my enjoyment. Too bad. Even the very best screen grab that got me to watch this movie was on screen so briefly that you could blink and miss it entirely (below). 

To call this movie stupid would be a gross understatement. However, its efforts in the gore department must be commended. When things get shot or explode, they really do so in graphic fashion. Some of you may appreciate this kind of bad movie fare. But this one just didn’t do it for me “enough” to recommend.