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Watching Alex Chandon’s new movie Inbred starts out as a very familiar experience. Let’s see if you’ve heard any of this before: Two social workers are taking a group of teens with different problems out on a trip north. North here means a rundown little town full of people with strange teeth and staying at an old house that hasn’t been lived in for decades. We all know where this will lead, and it does. It doesn’t take long before the locals and the city folk clash, resulting in injury and death. But this is where Inbred really takes off. Yes, we’ve seen it all before but rarely as fun as this. Instead of just pounding us with the latest ways of displaying that old “favorite”, torture porn, Chandon takes his cliché plot and infuses it with a lovely black and absurd sense of humor that reminds me a lot of the Belgian movie Calvaire with a dash of Monty Python, especially in the scenes where the locals Continue reading »
