Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
tbranson-2 Sure Plague Town is another Rural Americans running amok movie, inexplicably set in Ireland- Although it looks like it was shot in Pennsylvania. Some of the accents are ridiculous but mostly every one does a great job.The script has its ups & downs but the direction is pretty solid. The make up effects are also hit & miss. The shotgun wound to the face, is a big hit where some of the mutant kids look rushed. But my hat is off to whoever came up with Rosemary, the eyeless beauty. That was an inspired character and really brought the film up a notch or two.Good old fashioned horror!
levismits 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.
sleeping_gorilla 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.
FilmBum 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.
