For those not familiar with Danny Draven he's an old school filmmaker most well known for many independent and Full Moon pictures. Generally his works are pretty poor and cheesy nonsense at their best.
Here he writes and directs and has a considerably higher budget than usual, but can he do something with it? Absolutely not.
The Offerings tells the story of a girl who moves out into the middle of nowhere to be housekeeper. But with her employers having a sinister secret, the house being full of spirits and her psychotic ex boyfriend hot on her heels nothing goes the way she planned.
To the films credit the sfx look quite good, sadly they are rare and incredibly brief. Considering the budget and the near unknown cast this is unexplainable and Draven really has no excuse.
The plot is a jumbled mess, the cinematography is most poor and despite showing some promising signs early on the film really has very little going for it.
Draven will no doubt continue working for many years to come, I think he should stop or at very least go back to Fullmoon as their movies have a charm even he couldn't ruin.
The Good:
Some of the sfx are quite good
The Bad:
Poor sound balancing
Very amateurishly shot in places
Movie is an all round mess
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
I'd putting money down now, if I looked at his birth certificate it will not read Daniel Draven
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