Plague Town

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" 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.

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.

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.

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