Plague Town (2008) User Reviews

Aspires to be average

[cookie666 · 5/10 · 26 May 2009]

Plague Town caught my attention because I'm a sucker for horror flicks that have creepy children in it - to my mind they are the scariest kind.

It started off good, with a few glitches though - some strange scenes that were apparently supposed to build up the tension, but failed at it. The relationship between the two sisters was exaggerated, I thought, and the whole family unit dysfunctional - even so much that I was wondering why on earth would they gone on this trip together.

This being said, the children were creepy enough, although the effect didn't really last. The events in the cottage and with the townspeople were much more effective, while the children took the unwilling role of backscatter.

I won't even start questioning the logic behind the plot - the so-called plague, isolation, unexplained murderous desires and whatnot - let's leave it at that and take the film for what it is.

To sum up, it'll give you a few good scares with a few laughs, but not much more.

A little promise at the start, then it makes you regret wasting your time on it.

[MBunge · 3/10 · 7 January 2011]

Plague Town was either made by idiots or made for idiots. I'm leaning toward the "made for idiots" explanation because a lot of this production is quite competent for the low budget horror genre. A real creepiness is generated and pains were taken to give the main characters some believable and human interactions. Which makes it all the more frustrating, aggravating and disappointing that this movie repeatedly falls back on the absolute worst filmmaking characteristics of the horror genre. Over and over again, the people in Plague Town have to be dumber than lobotomized lab rats for the story to work and the audience has to be dumber than sterilized dirt not to notice how little sense everything makes. I can forgive a filmmaker for being a moron. I can't forgive these filmmakers for treating me and every other viewer like morons.

This exercise in imbecility concerns an American family vacationing in Ireland. There's the thoroughly generic dad (David Lombard), his only slightly less generic fiancée (Lindsay Goranson), his bitchy blonde daughter (Erica Rhodes), his dark-haired daughter with a history of mental trouble (Josslyn DeCrosta) and an English bloke who hooked up with the bitchy blonde daughter a few days ago (James Warke). This little group gets off a bus in the middle of the Irish countryside, wanders around and bickers until they miss the bus back and are stranded for the night. That's when they're set upon by a band of marginally deformed children, which results in a lot of running, screaming and various forms of horror-movie violence.

The first bit of Plague Town, when it's just the family and their British tag along, is perfectly okay. The actors all do a decent job and the story effectively establishes who these characters are and how their interact with each other. It's a nice example of how to get the audience to emotionally invest in the story and its characters before the crap hits the fan. When the running and the screaming starts, however, any viewer investment in this film is wiped out more quickly and completely than the worst stock market crash in history.

Simply put, this thing is bang-your-head-against-the wall stupid. Horror movie characters are often more dull-witted than normal folk and I can let that sort of thing slide. Horror movie plots also usually don't stand up to a lot of critical analysis and I can let that sort of thing slide. I cannot let Plague Town slide. When the scary stuff starts, this film rapidly descends into a bottomless pit of asininity where the most fundamental elements of human behavior, logic and even causality are utterly ignored.

Let me give you some examples of what I mean. There's a scene where a character is stabbed in the shoulder with a shard of glass. It's clearly a wound that's at least an inch or so deep, not a scratch that can be shrugged off. Yet after pulling out the shard, this character does NOT run away. Instead, he follows his attacker into a darkened room and you can guess how that turns out. In another scene, a character is lying on the road while three of the mutant children attack her. Even though the mutants are clearly smaller than their victim and aren't hitting her that hard, she makes absolutely no effort to get up, get away, defend herself or fight back. She just lies there on the road, for no explicable reason, and allows herself to be beaten. When some characters are trying to flee in a car, they get stopped on a bridge with the mutant children blocking the way forward. The mutants are at least 15 to 20 feet away from the car when one of them drags a chain that's attached to a tractor and hooks it underneath the car so it can't drive away. Doing something like that would take at least 30 seconds. Putting the car in reverse and stepping on the gas would take no more than 3 seconds, but the rules of time and space are suspended to allow the car to be trapped.

That sort of doltish nonsense happens all the damn time in this movie. These filmmakers consistently take the audience's suspension of disbelief, eat it up, digest it, excrete it and then throw it against a Teflon wall where nothing sticks. I don't care how good you are at other aspects of storytelling, and Plague Town isn't exceptionally good at those things, when your characters have to behave like cretins who can barely feed themselves and the physical laws of the universe have to be disregarded in order to make your story work…YOUR STORY SUCKS ASS!!!!!

If you know an idiot who likes horror flicks, give them this DVD for their birthday. Unless you are an idiot, though, don't even try and watch it yourself.

Atmospheric but ultimately disappointing

[SpannersGerm669 · 5/10 · 29 September 2014]

Plague Town does manage to create a great atmosphere, so it does achieve what it sets out to do, so credit must be given there. However, atmosphere can't work alone, and unfortunately that's all that the film has going for it.

We have a group of characters who we really don't care for, below par acting performances and a poor script, which makes me feel as though the great atmosphere was somewhat wasted, which is the biggest disappointment of Plague Town.

There are some brutal scenes of violence. Some looked really good and some looked really fake, but for a low budget film, i thought the production level was good, it was just unfortunate that the acting and script couldn't help keep the film afloat!

Overall, for independent horror, Plague Town isn't terrible. In fact, its better than a lot of horror movies out there. I just couldn't help but feel that it should have been much better!

Seems decent

[BakuryuuTyranno · 5/10 · 24 February 2011]

"Plague Town" has something many horror movies are lacking, especially the more recent ones. That being charismatic, interesting characters.

The family members really don't get along too well, resulting in humorous dialogue which works in the context of the scenes. Even when it's clear something isn't right, the father tries to prevent his daughter from leaving, thinking it too dangerous. Of course when her boyfriend volunteers, said father encourages him.

The problem? Well, after people start dying, without expendable characters the character dynamics fall apart, resulting in a horror movie considerably less entertaining when the horror begins than previously.

At "Gorezone Weekend of Horrors", it did have one scene which made the audience gasp due to shock. I'm not spoiling that part.

The Irish Hub Cap Massacre.

[rmax304823 · 1/10 · 22 January 2010]

A couple of nice young people, including a couple of sexy girls, are inadvertently stranded in rural Ireland. Two of them, a man and a young lady, explore what appears to be an abandoned house. A weirdo appears and demands that they come with him. The handsome young English fellow objects. El Freako raises a gun and shoots him bloodily through the neck.

The handful of tourists is captured and brought to a family of mutants with strange faces. I woke up briefly for a while to watch one of the gargoyles beat a sobbing girl to death with a hub cap, deliberately and graphically slamming her face into hamburger before the coup de grace. She was covered with blood by then. There were multiple shots of her sister watching the murder through a veil of utter terror.

If this sort of thing appeals to you, you should definitely watch it. To me it's a symptom of our decadence.

The best interpretation I can lend this pernicious, malignant piece of poison is that the several elements of the production -- the cast and crew -- thought they might wangle a paid, tax-free vacation in Ireland out of it. They didn't really MEAN to debase our taste further.

In a bit of sublime irony, the cuss words ("s***" and f*** and so on) are clipped out, while the most heinous violent acts are left intact. We don't mind our children being desensitized to homicide but, for the sake of God, let's not teach them that it's permissible to curse.

"We got one! We got one!" - Yes, out of 10

[sebpopcorn · 2 June 2010]

An arguing American family wander into an area populated by mutant kids with porridge on their faces. Unfortunately this movie has no atmosphere at all except for one scene with a creepy boggle eyed girl in the kitchen.

Really I lost interest the moment I saw two small children wrap a piece of piano wire around the fathers head and literally cut his head in half. What the hell was that about? That doesn't even make sense.

From there on there's just basically what you'd expect from a film of the inbred local genre but without any real flourishes of strangeness that it needed. Porridge on faces isn't a good substitute for deformity and social weirdness so the whole thing felt a bit flat. I liked the ending though, that at least was creepy and sinister.

Really this is mediocre, if you want to watch a film about normal people wandering into the path of inbred weirdos there's about 300 better films to choose from.

Plague is correct

[aqos-1 · 3/10 · 30 May 2009]

This movie was plagued to be horrible after the first scene. The plot was very predictable. The "children" were very creepy looking. I would not want to run into them in a dark alley. They were the only thing interesting about this movie. If they had given an explanation of why these children were born as they were, it would have added a lot to the story. Also they should have made it clear as to whether or not what the children were doing was ritualistic to try to turn the town's luck around, or was it all just sport for them. The way the Englishman ended up seemed very ritualistic. My biggest question is how did the outlying towns not know about this little community? This was a waste of time to watch and could have been a better movie with very little effort on the part of the people that made the movie. Just by giving some explanations would have enhanced the movie. I found it totally boring and a bunch of nonsense with some good make-up effects thrown in.

Plague Town is a pretty bad film.

[daniel_c-ledure · 1/10 · 19 October 2012]

The acting is overall decent, but the problem is the characters that they are playing as. None of the main characters in this film are really likable in any way or form. They are basically a dysfunctional family, and an annoying group of people. This is one of them horror films with such horrible characters, that you don't really care if any of them survive or not.

For being such an all-around awful movie, some of the deaths were okay, not fantastic, but just okay. I think that the deaths will be one of the only memorable things about this film. The other memorable things being Rosemary, and the creepy children.

The deaths were okay, but now let's talk about the plot of the movie, which could perhaps best be described as "stupid". An American family who apparently cannot stand each other is in another country and come across a bunch of crazy adults and children, and try to survive the night. Like I said, stupid.

I personally think this movie is awful, and unless you're bored out of your mind and are desperate to see a horror movie, you need to avoid this title. My rating for Plague Town: 1

No doctors or even nurses!

[RetroStar23 · 3/10 · 4 June 2009]

This movie is a crazy sort of Children of the Corn/Hills Have Eyes hybrid. Whilst it does have it's moments and a certain level of strangeness going for it, overall the idea simply doesn't work.

As soon as the first few mutant babies were born surely the obvious thing to do would be contact a hospital rather than invite the local priest round for a quick execution.

In fact like the rest of the UK (remote location or not)a doctor, the local nurse or even a social worker would have been in contact with these pregnant women. Not just some creepy old priest with a sharp knife! If mutant babies were suddenly being born in you're town/village the first conclusion anyone would draw is that we must have been exposed to something. Let's contact the appropriate authority to check things out and then sue the backside off whoever is found to be responsible.

Not in this town apparently. The adults for some reason completely ignore the rest of civilisation, teach the children to kill, kidnap and torture.

In terms of plot(mutant children not withstanding).......well as has been done a million times before, it's a case of here are some lambs to be slaughtered, let's drop them off and let the killer(s) get on with it! However, the key to this type of formula is to have have interesting, funny or sexy characters combined with inventive kills and a bit of suspense. Unfortunately in this movie the characters and kills are none of the above. I'm afraid twigs and hubcaps just don't cut the corn beef and cabbage sandwich! To be fair though With the budget they had the special effects of the gory bits are a reasonable effort. A nice change from the normal overdone cartoon CGI.

3.5 stars out of 10. 4 if you really twisted my arm or slapped me a bit with a twig!

Unnerving

[theeintolerablekidd · 7/10 · 15 May 2009]

I choose to watch this film while I was in a search for something scary after mistakenly reading that it has won an award at some "Horrorthon" festival. It hasn't won any awards and it most probably won't. It was just screened there, but I'm glad I watched it. It was pretty much exactly what I was looking for. A creepy and scary horror movie.

For a low budget and an unknown cast this was a very good effort. The other reviewer is right to point out that that it is mis-titled, "Plague Town" does not accurately describe the film, but so what! (And just for the other reviewers benefit, I do not believe they are eating corned beef and cabbage sandwiched, I believe they are eating pasties)

It has barely nothing for a storyline but then most horror films don't. A horror film is about setting the scene and then laying on the threat of what is going to happen next. An American family find themselves stranded in the middle of some Irish countryside near a village which they quickly discover, to their misfortune, is populated by demon children. It has hints of "Children of the Corn", a nudge towards "Rosemary's Baby", and I suspect an admiration for the Sadako character from the Japanese "Ring" films.

I watched this movie alone, in my flat, with the lights off, and it was pretty unnerving in places. It's the first film that I've watched in a long time where I've come away feeling slightly nervous to walk around my own flat. I for sure do not want to get stranded in any Irish countryside after watching this.

Pointless . . .

[mwidunn-95-631875 · 3/10 · 21 February 2015]

The director and producer seem to have thought that explicit gore would carry this movie, rather than any storyline. From the first few minutes, one sees a Priest getting a fire poker lodged in his brain -- explicitly -- with the lodger of said poker then -- again, explicitly -- jostling the poker around in the Priest's head because it's gotten stuck. Simple "gore for gore's sake." Disgusting; unnecessary.

You see, apparently, the women of this small Irish town have started giving birth to deformed, evil (how would they know?) babies. The Priest keeps killing the newborns off, but the wielder of the poker decides that enough is enough. He kills the Priest, saying: "Shorry, Fadder! We've got to live which arr fate [ . . . or, some such]." That statement turns out to be nothing but a part of the general slew of meaningless nonsense that is in this film.

A town plagued with deformed babies? A town plagued with evil babies? A town plagued with both deformed and evil babies? . . . WHO KNOWS? The tag for the movie reads: "It's in the blood." Yet, this is a reference . . . to what, in particular, in the movie? Is blood needed for something? Or, are the evil kids infected?

The story's incomprehensible: Why are the kids deformed? Why do the village's inhabitants act like wackoes? What does the thin, white- skinned girl have to do with anything? What IS the "Plague" (i. e., is it the deformity or the desire to kill)?

And, also: Could someone, please, explain the significance of the masks? Why do the children wear them? Why do they sometimes not wear them?

Who is the white-skinned girl? What's her purpose?

In the interviews in the "Extras," the Director says that the killing is like playing for the children. So, . . . they're just PLAYING? Are you kidding me? That attempt at an explanation reveals to me, that once the filming got started he had absolutely no idea in which direction to lead the film. Hence, the reliance on pointless gory scene after gory scene.

Not worth your time -- even for the gorehound.

Gory, funny and scary

[dspikey88 · 10/10 · 28 October 2008]

I have just seen a screening of this at Ireland's Horrorthon festival. It was definitely one of the better films at the festival. A family go for a picnic in rural Ireland and get lost resulting in them being picked off one by one by the local towns zombie children. The acting was good sometimes and very bad the rest of the time but it didn't take away from the film at all. The American or British cast had awful Irish accents but that was expected. I was surprised to read it was not even shot in Ireland but new york which doubled very well considering the only indication that they are in Ireland is the Bus Eireann sign at the start of the movie. The film is funny, scary, overacted, gory and very well shot. The exterior shots of the cottages were extremely well lit and looked beautiful. It had the look of a high budget film and the script of a first year student project. Overall this was an excellent B-movie and it seemed to me everyone in the audience loved it from the amount of cheering and clapping throughout the film I can say it was the highlight of the festival (aside from night of the creeps).

The village of deformed children.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 7/10 · 23 June 2009]

"Plague Town" is a another horror film about murderous children after "Eden Lake" and "The Children".There's a little bit of "Children of the Corn" and "The Wicker Man",a touch of Wolf Rilla's "Village of the Damned" and a dollop of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" all rolled into one.A small group of bickering travelers ends up stranded in a remote rural village.This nameless Irish town has a crop of mutant children who enjoy spilling blood of unfortunate victims.There are subtle hints of paganism in the air as well.Admittedly disfigured albino children look pretty creepy and sporadic gore effects are well-done.Unfortunately the story is pretty confusing and highly derivative.The climax is also a little bit disappointing.Still I enjoyed "Plague Town" and you should too,if you are into indie horror.7 out of 10.

Standard "Bad Things in the Backwoods" horror pic

[FilmBum · 5/10 · 29 June 2009]

This is yet another horror entry featuring the well-trodden plot line of ordinary folks taking a stroll through the countryside, only to be menaced by odd and ghoulish happenings. As with others of its ilk, this one relies on a familiar formula and features the standard subgenre motifs of pasty faced weirdos, creepy children and malicious townsfolk.

As this has been done innumerable times, and with much better results, this one largely falls flat. There are some above average makeup and gore effects, but these are lost in a picture which fails to differentiate itself from a plethora of other "Bad Things in the Backwoods" type films which dominate the throwaway bin at your local video store.

waste of time

[levismits · 17 August 2011]

Family members who seem to dislike one another, creepy Irish scenery and a girl that looks like the chick from the Grudge and the jigsaw puppet had a baby. All of the ingredients for a good horror flick are there, but wait, it's not good at all. It sucks big time.

This movie started really promising with the family walking down the Hills of Ireland. The director really set a mood when the bunch started getting annoyed with one another. The film was great up to the point where everybody split up to have random encounters with strange mutant/zombie kids and their psychotic parents. There is no story, no reason why everybody gets killed and there is no coherence in the plot whatsoever. The only good thing about this movie is the cinematography and the actress who plays the youngest daughter of the family (that's why I gave it two stars)

The pacing is bad. The dialog is scratch-your-ears-off horrible. There is no real story. The characters are hyper-dumb (ever for a horror flick it's too much)

I watched the whole thing hoping I'd get an explanation for all the weirdness but no. Sometimes movies that leave the viewer wondering about the story are good (like in my opinion; the village, the Hamilton's, the Blair witch project), this one isn't. I bought it on DVD for only $2,- and still it feels like I wasted my money. I should have bought a nice hamburger, I would've enjoyed myself better.

Nothing outstanding to be had here...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 30 November 2019]

Oddly enough I have never gotten around to watching the 2008 movie "Plague Town" before now late in 2019, and I am a big horror fan. But I did sit down, finally, and watched it.

This wasn't really an outstanding movie and it was a less than mediocre horror experience, so it turned out that I hadn't really been missing out on a horror gem for all these years.

The storyline just failed to fully entice me, and it just felt like another run-of-the-mill-dysfunctional-countryside-family-gone-bad type of movie, like what you'd see in "Wrong Turn", "The Hills Have Eyes" and the like. So on that account "Plague Town" drowned in all the other movies on the market.

The acting in the movie was adequate, but it was a shame that the actors and actresses had so very little to work with in terms of a captivating script and storyline, and characters that weren't really all that interesting to begin with.

As for the horror aspect of the movie, well it wasn't outstanding or memorable, especially not to a seasoned horror veteran such as myself.

I managed to sit through the entire movie, but I weren't really entertained, and this is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time. My rating of "Plague Town" is a four out of ten stars. This is mostly because of the production value that the movie had to it.

Indie with a creepy atmosphere

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 28 January 2018]

PLAGUE TOWN is an American indie horror shot in a Connecticut masquerading as rural Ireland. Things start out predictably enough with a bunch of American holidaymakers heading abroad and finding themselves in a weird rural community full of strange things going on. What surprised me is that this film manages to sustain a creepy atmosphere throughout and there are plenty of odd moments which feel a little better than most indie efforts. The effective soundtrack helps a lot. The story is very light and insubstantial but there are also some surprisingly decent make up effects here too.

Dont bother!

[kbisawesomee · 1/10 · 4 May 2021]

Horrible acting made it unwatchable, no emotion just surface level, not worth it.

Average, far better than a SyFy original

[sleeping_gorilla · 4/10 · 23 March 2011]

Plague Town is a B-Movie in the vein of Wrong Turn, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A dysfunctional family discovers a village of horrors in a remote Irish countryside.

The movie relies tired horror tropes, and is only occasionally scary.

***SPOILER*** Notably when the children first show up by the car, and the subsequent beating with the hub cap. ***END SPOILER***

Too many "scary" scenes are long shots of heavily prosthetic actors basically standing around throwing random things at a "terrified" character.

The principal acting isn't terrible, at times it's almost improve ("We have one!")Notable performance from Josslyn DeCrosta, though she and Erica Rhodes become pretty annoying as the second half of the movie goes south. Not to be a voyeur but with the "plot" of this movie and 3 attractive actresses it would have made sense for the girls to show a little skin.

The soundtrack is pretty good, though constantly there.

If you are a die hard horror fan, this movie will probably entertain you. I recorded this along with "Daisy Chain" as part of the Chillers St. Patrick's Day marathon. Daisy Chain is a much better film, but I'm sure that Plague Town will find an audience.

A Dark Sky Production on Par With Their Other Quality Films

[gavin6942 · 7/10 · 8 May 2009]

A "family" that is really more of a therapy group gets lost somewhere in Ireland. They try to board the bus, but are left stranded near a village that has a few secrets... what those secrets are, you might just be surprised. Or, if you notice the title is "Plague Town", you might have a few guesses.

This film was screened at the 2009 Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in Chicago in early March. David Gregory, the writer-director, was there to promote it. Sadly, I was busy with other commitments at the convention and missed the screening. Luckily, though, Dark Sky Films was kind enough to send me a copy for review. As with Dark Sky's other releases, this one was worth the wait. This also marks their first trip into production (usually they distribute films, often old gems)... and I suspect that we will see more of this based on the warm reviews this film will receive.

The story begins with a prologue involving a priest and some quality bloody makeup effects. In fact, the effects as a whole are quite remarkable in "Plague Town". While not the goriest film you will see, especially if we see more "torture horror" along the lines of "Saw", there's a sense of heart here that few films can match (though, if you crave blood, I also recommend Robert Halls' "Laid to Rest"). Even Rosemary (played beautifully by Kate Aspinwall, whose character's name seems to be an homage to "Rosemary's Baby") has some noticeable makeup effects that give the film an eerie atmosphere -- she reminded me of some of the more disturbing aspects of Lucky McKee's "May". That is certainly a compliment.

The pace is a bit slow at times, but not unbearably slow. We are revealed more of the town piece by piece, and the mystery grows as it gets solved. This mystery is simultaneously the strength and weakness of the film. Those viewers who like concrete answers might be frustrated because much of what happens isn't all that clear. Others might appreciate the journey into the unknown -- if the family being tormented doesn't understand their situation, why should the audience? We are joining them on this adventure, for better or worse.

The acting was exquisite right down the line, and I appreciate that there were no "name" actors to distract from this feature. I found James Warke's "Robin" character to be more than a tad annoying, and could have done without him. But as I think he was mean to be annoying, I can't fault him -- and he easily gets the most dastardly treatment in response. Josslyn DeCrosta (playing "Molly Monohan") stands out as not just the film's lead, but a wonderful actress. She had a subtle style to her character that really carried the role well, and a girl-next-door beauty to her... I do hope we see more of her.

Dark Sky's first venture into producing is a success. David Gregory has written a stylish script and has shared a dark vision with us. His name will likely grow, and if nothing else, hopefully Dark Sky considers him for helming future projects. If you have the chance to pick up a copy of "Plague Town", do it. In the vein of "Children of the Corn" or "Village of the Damned", this is the glimpse of sadistic children that so often terrifies... no less so here than anywhere else.

Awful

[mohammadnouroozy · 1/10 · 14 February 2020]

A very very bad movie Why they did create this? I can not believe I think that a four-year-old made the film

Really nice! No trash in my opinion!

[alexfromhorn · 8/10 · 23 September 2009]

That movie was astoundingly good. Really, my intention of watching this movie was "ah I'd like to watch some trashy b-movie, but huh? what is this? it's good!"

I think the acting was something in the middle. It was OK, not bad and nothing especially good. The music was really shocking and fitting it was good, real horror-music. The story was OK, it lacked a little of information and the ending was quite strange but it was really acceptable for a b-horror-movie. But what almost instantly got me was the movies atmosphere, it was really catching in it's way and gave me the creeps. Really nice I choose this movie ^^

Though it's really hard and sadistic I can't recommend it to everybody, it was also a bit too much violence for me in it, but maybe this gave the movie it's atmosphere this kind of shocking violence.

Dad, how come I can't spontaneously hallucinate like Molly?

[lastliberal · 7/10 · 13 June 2009]

Missing the bus proved disastrous for the Polish immigrant in the British film Mum & Dad, and now in this film, that bus is missed again with disastrous consequences in Ireland.

We get to spend time with a totally dysfunctional American family that comes into contact with some very functional children. Only Molly (Josslyn DeCrosta) sees something strange. Everyone else is in denial.

This is a very dark film with minimal soundtrack and minimal story. The story is just to set up the horror that is to come.

Molly and her sister Jessica (Erica Rhodes) soon put aside their differences in an effort to survive. The rest have all fallen victim to the mutants.

The whole motivation of the town rolls out piece by piece as the murderous children go about their gory business. The makeup was excellent and the gore was moderate, but effective.

Director David Gregory has a long list of documentary shorts. Probably the stuff that is extras on DVDs. This is his first feature film, and one looks for more in the future.

Skip it

[joshualeldred · 4/10 · 6 May 2021]

The setting was creepy, perfect for a good ole travelers fall prey to a community of mutants film. Other than that it sucked. I'm not blaming the actors, some of them were decent, they just had nothing to work with. Annoying characters that you have no sympathy for rule the day. The deformed mutants were just people with their faces painted white. Lots of gore if you like that stuff. Lame plot with little backstory and an ending that might have intended to shock you, but it does not. I liked the creepy whispers on the woods. Molly was fairly well played and a bit cute. Low budget action scenes that made me giggle. Skip it.

No budget for lighting

[dbrown-85128 · 3/10 · 2 May 2021]

What is the reason for making a movie so dark you can't even see what's happening? No budget for lights?