There's nowt stranger than folk. And if this film is to believed, the strangest type of folk of all are northerners. Of course all of us Southerners already knew that.

But it's not just the peculiar northerners that are strange however, as the film itself is quite the little oddball.

Travelling to the middle of Northern nowhere are four young offenders and their care workers Kate (Jo Hartley) and Jeff (James Doherty). They are to spend the weekend in a dilapidated house known as Ravenswood Cottage, where they will hopefully learn to work as a team.

After a day of cleaning the cottage from top to bottom, they are all rewarded with a trip to the local pub, The Dirty Hole. There's something about the locals drinking there that makes all of them slightly uncomfortable; the regulars all look like they were members of the Wurzels at one time or another, and none of them believe in dental hygiene. Still, they get a relatively warm welcome from the pub's owner Jim (Seamus O'Neill).

The next day Jeff gets them up and out, looking for bits of scrap off of old, disused rail stock. A run in with some locals however, puts a bloody damper on their weekend away.

Right lads, I concede that light entertainment as we know it might be dead. Shame.

Obviously the whole weekend-away-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thing has literally been done to death, but director /writer Alex Chandon has given his film a curious twist. Not content with just making Deliverance Up North, Chandon has his vulnerable tourists walk into a group of characters that wouldn't look out of place in Royston Vasey. It's surreal to say the least.

Curiously it's not their contribution to the film that doesn't quite fit, it's the story. Chandon doesn't appear to have put much thought into getting his young characters up north in the first place. Would care workers really take a bunch of youngsters to an empty cottage and then have them clean the place up? And would they then have them rooting around old train carriages in an attempt to salvage old scrap for cash? It doesn't sound like the most authentic of team building exercises.

What's also quite laughable is the manner they all try to escape once they learn they're in trouble; common sense is clearly thrown mightily through the window. But then this film isn't one for common sense period; at one point the 'baddies; actually sing a song called 'Ee by Gum'. Royston Vasey indeed.

It's obvious that a shoestring budget would have been a windfall for this film, but despite the restrictions, the FX team do their best with the little at their disposal. It did allow them to get quite creative in the dispatching of certain characters, the likes of which have never been seen on screen before.

It may not be very well thought through from a logical point of view, but Inbred's warped sense of humour just about saves the day, proving that, more often than not, there's nowt stranger than film folk.