TADFF 2012: ‘Inbred’ an ever-escalating series of gore, gore and more gore

Inbred

Directed by Alex Chandon

Written by Alex Chandon and Paul Shrimpton

UK/Germany, 2011

If you’re acquainted with Karl Pilkington, the most idiosyncratic and avant-garde thinker of the 21^st century, then you’ll know that Northerners are “a bit weird, innit?” In the United Kingdom, Northerners are the equivalent to American Southerners (or, if you’re Canadian, anyone outside Toronto), and are often at the brunt of aren’t-they-poor, aren’t-they-backwards, aren’t-they-stupid, and, yes, even aren’t-they-inbred jokes. A country’s regional divide can serve as fodder for socio-economic and cultural insight, or gory and insular hillbilly horror; Inbred dabbles in the former, but ultimately ends up being the latter. If Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes came together and got to know Kes in the biblical sense, Inbred would be their unholy offspring; a film that combines grindhouse and slaughterhouse.

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