It's Thanksgiving Day and we're introduced to our protagonist family who don't seem to like each other very much. Other dinner guests are ambushed by the titular derelicts who then follow the navigation system straight to our dysfunctional family home. Chaos ensues, secrets are revealed, there's a little bit of torture, and a few people die.
I think we're supposed look at this fiilm through a "who are the REAL savages?" Kind of view, but the derelict family are obviously the real monsters as they rape and kill and terrorize. The "normal" family members are unpleasant to one another but that's hardly equivalent. Still, the movie's biggest flaw is making the normal family so unpleasant that it's impossible to root for them - they hate each other, but I hated them. The derelicts seem to at least like and respect one another, but we don't root for them either. Since there's no one to care about, Derelicts just exists for 74 minutes and then slips right out of the viewer's mind. To be fair, there's a pretty good gore gag that earned it an extra star but other than that, there's not much here.
I think we're supposed look at this fiilm through a "who are the REAL savages?" Kind of view, but the derelict family are obviously the real monsters as they rape and kill and terrorize. The "normal" family members are unpleasant to one another but that's hardly equivalent. Still, the movie's biggest flaw is making the normal family so unpleasant that it's impossible to root for them - they hate each other, but I hated them. The derelicts seem to at least like and respect one another, but we don't root for them either. Since there's no one to care about, Derelicts just exists for 74 minutes and then slips right out of the viewer's mind. To be fair, there's a pretty good gore gag that earned it an extra star but other than that, there's not much here.
