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Plague Town

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First I have to say that I wasn't bored while watching "Plague Town" it held my interest and had some very creepy,scary moments in it.
It was reminiscent of "Wicked Little Things "from the first batch of 8 films to die for.
"Plague Town" was somewhat original but it's not like kids haven't been used many times in the past to frighten or shock audiences, a few good examples being "The Bad Seed","The Good Son" and "Who Can Kill a Child",It's the brutality and shock value of using something that personifies innocence,hope and goodness that gives shock value to a film like this and others that portray children as "monsters".
The film used very dim lighting in places and that didn't really bother me because it lent to the dark feel of the film.There were quite a few grisly scenes but they let you see just enough to let you know what happened and just enough to let you're imagination run wild as well.
The character of Rosemary was particularly creepy and well played.Her bug eyed look very disturbing.
all in all I would recommend it to a horror slasher fan.
It's interesting and somewhat unique but I still like "The Children" better as far as killer kid flicks go.

I enjoyed this movie. In short, a family is on a holiday-like event in (presumably) Britain, then get stranded only to find themselves hunted by a rather large extended family of mutated humans. The movie does a good job of maintaining an eerie mood throughout, with good suspense and well crafted horror scenes. The advertised story speaks of substantial gore, but I didn't find it that way. I am not a particular fan of gore, and found the amount shown generally agreeable and not gore for gore's sake. The acting was pretty good, and the production values high. The film was, however, shot (at least the day scenes) with a blue filter, which takes a particular skill level to employ effectively. Overall, a worthy rental.

Im glad I did! It Wasn't really a horrible way to kill time, but the acting was just atrocious and that was kinda hard to sit through. There were a few creepy parts involving the "eye" girl, but there really was not a whole lot of explanation for what the hell was going on. I love a good independant horror flick as much as the next guy, but this was pretty bad. Rent first before you decide to make your purchase.

Plague Town looked like it had a good premise but really failed to deliver. The story follows a family that is visiting Ireland and misses their tour bus by seconds (don't bus drivers use their side mirrors). This leads to the family fighting for the next half of the movie with forced acting by all. The two sisters fight the most going so far as to dropping the C word bomb! Basically we laughed through the whole thing, especially while watching how effective a plastic hubcap can actually be used as a murder weapon (who knew????) I would say if you really wanted to see this movie rent it first, I'm sure you will thank me for saving you $15 bucks

I just saw this film and must say that Fangoria hit the mark by describing
it as one of the best independent horror films to come along in quite some time. For those individuals who criticize the movie for for sub-par dialogue and acting, then I would ask them to show me any horror movie
where the actors are up for academy awards--it's the nature of the genre that defines the style of the acting. For those who criticize it on the basis of being stupid, I would like for them to point out a horror movie that is "intelligent." The horror genre is designed to scare, make one feel uncomfortable or uneasy, present elements of the grotesque, attempt to present something a bit different, have some unexpected twists and turns--Plague Town does all of this on some level. Moving forward in the horror genre, there will probably never be anything new invented under the sun, what has been tried will probably be re-tried in a director's own way. If one is looking for something completely new, unique, and never done before in the horror genre, then one will be consistenetly and forever disappointed. If the horror masters--Stephen King, Clive Barker,
John Carpenter, George Romero, Stuart Gordon, etc. can't come up with something novel in the horror genre, then it probably can't be done. It may be that critics of the movie Plague Town and films like it have lost the sense of what horror is supposed to be all about. The criticisms of horror always seem to be the same--it doesn't have this, it doesn't have that, and it doesn't have the other thing--what the heck are you looking for anyway? Will anything please you at all? Anyway, Plague Town is a very good independent horror movie and well worth watching. Although I would like to hav seen more to the ending, I understand that they were probably working with a low budget and commend the director and cast for what they were able to accomplish. Even high-budget horror movies are still disappointing to many, so maybe it's a mute point. If you want to see something a bit different in horror, then give Plague Town a watch.

I've read the other reviews and I agree with both the good and the bad. This is not a great film. I doubt that it will ever be even a "cult classic". However, I have seen a lot worse. The characters are decently drawn, in that you probably dislike all of them. The story is interesting if a bit unexplained. The acting is at the worst decent and at the best competent. Lindsay Goranson does a good job with the stepmother and Josslyn DeCrosta is competent as the main daughter. On the bad side, some of the effects are less than wonderful, there are sudden lapses in acting by several characters, the story line is not developed well and there is no explanation for whatever happened in the Irish village to cause this curse. Still, all the main female characters are attractive and at least competent, the faux Irish scenery is nice and there is enough action and gore to keep most people interested.

Plague Town is about an American family who visits the countryside areas of Ireland. Most of the film takes place in the dark but luckily -unlike MOST horror films that focus on night scenes- you can actually SEE what's taking place most of the time.

It starts off with the two American sisters constantly fighting with each other by cussing and criticizing each other every single chance they get, but then the family eventually splits up after missing a bus by merely seconds. From here... the scares begin.

I personally found most of Plague Town pretty unsettling thanks to the creepy dark setting inside an Irish forest being the center of focus for the majority of the time. Throughout the film, the American family was running through this forest filled with children who were apparently possessed and trained to kill any and all outsiders.

The film is definitely not shy with the violence. You will witness a lot of violent deaths, blood, guts flying, people being tortured unexpectedly, etc.

One thing I found interesting is that in most horror films like this one, there's usually some normal people around the town area somewhere willing to help the innocent people and try to help them escape, but Plague Town doesn't really have any completely normal people running around. Everybody seems a bit odd.

The ending is a bit shocking too. Let's just say, when I *thought* it was going to be over, a little surprise came along after that.

Not a bad film by any means, and perhaps even a tad underrated because most people fail to find anything interesting about it. The storyline may be weak, but the actual violence seems pretty good to me.

Plague Town (David Gregory, 2008)

I sometimes wonder what the guys who write movies like this are thinking, and why they decide to do it. You take a dash from movie A, a dash from movie B, and paste them onto the structure of movie C. You make no changes, you don't deviate from the formula, and it should be no surprise that you end up with derivative crap. And yet movie after movie just like this gets pumped out year after year, and with the advent of direct-to-video about twenty years ago, the number of movies put together just like this exploded. I've seen hundreds of them, but you have to dig through a lot of swine to find the real pearls. Plague Town is swine through and through.

Plot: ever-so-typical dysfunctional family heads to Ireland to try and reconnect with its roots, and maybe heal their wounds in the process. Our intrepid group consists of dad, Jerry (Follow the Broccoli's David Lombard); stepmom, Annette (Enjoy Yourself's Lindsay Goranson); and two sisters, older Jessica (18-Year-Old Virgin's Erica Rhodes), who's picked up a local boyfriend, Robin (In Flanders Fields' James Warke) along the way, and younger Molly (Brutal Massacre: A Comedy's Josslyn DeCrosta). They wander the countryside after being dropped off by a bus, looking for... something. They end up in the wrong, wrong place, however--a village full of evil, deformed children who love nothing more than trapping and torturing unwary travelers. Though they have something very, very different in mind for the sisters...

Yes, you've seen it all before. Take the bones of Village of the Damned and drape them with trappings from Eternal and every Lifetime Original Movie drama about dysfunctional families ever made and you've got the idea here. Needless to say, familiarity not only breeds contempt, but predictability as well. Why bother renting this one? The synopsis will give you all you need to know to rent better-made movies with the same basic ideas. * ½

This was more like a badly made (Hills have eyes or Wrong turn) set in the English country side. The family unit walks around aimlessly in the woods waiting to die. Meeting badly made up mutant kids with an extreme mean streak and a bunch of crazy parents. To make it even worse no one fights back or even try to protect themselves while being beaten and killed. Another waste of our hard earned money.

A family's idyllic vacation turns into a terrifying nightmare when their last bus home leaves them stranded in the Irish countryside. They soon discover that they are not alone when a group of deformed children begin stalking them through the woods. PLAGUE TOWN is bogged down by weak dialog and robotic performances that make the first half of the film a difficult watch. Things pick up immediately once the children set in on their victims and the family stops talking and starts running. It makes up for its many difficulties with an increasing sense of dread, moody atmospherics, and an ample amount of gore. The dimly lit forest setting and fog-laden sets call back to the supernatural 60s and 70s, bringing to mind films like LEMORA and LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH. Most horrifying of all are the children's twisted make-up designs that resemble fiendish porcelain dolls. David Gregory's first feature film provides plenty of disturbing imagery and haunting sound effects, but unfortunately his skills as a director do not carry over into his writing.

-Carl Manes
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