Though some rights issues prevented The Off Season, the book Offspring is a sequel to, from being made first, van den Houten was more excited by the second book, anyway; “Off Season was very reminiscent of The Hills Have Eyes,” the director commented to the mag. “What we have with Offspring s really unique and different. Having a group of cannibals living in a cave in Maine and descending and terrorizing a small town is so fascinating to me. There’s a scene in Offspring that sort of summarizes the events of the original, though. We were able to work around the first novel, and this film works great as a stand-alone horror piece.”
Truth be told the books aren’t that different anyway so either one should work fine as a film if in the right hands. And these certainly appear to be those hands. Be sure to hit up Fango’s site for the full set report and more pics!