Fantastic!

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Small town of Ellensford, Pennsylvania is suffering from a plague in 1859. Barlett Henry (John Schneider) is made the magistrate and his daughter Hope (Chelan Simmons) starts to suffer from the plague. He performs a spell to create an ogre from all the evil that has befallen the town which must be fed each year. In present time, four friends go searching for the town lost in time. Terry (Kyle Labine) is injured. Jessica (Katharine Isabelle) and Mike (Ryan Kennedy) go looking for help and find the town.It's a TV movie for then Sci-Fi Channel and the special effects look TV cheesetastic. This is kind of like 'The Village' in look and story except there is a real ogre. At least, it's as real as a cheap computer can make it. There is some good cheese value to this and it generally works as a story. I do like most of the actors and they do a serious job. The ogre looks so ridiculous that the last half of the movie grinds down. The action looks horrible. It's bad and funny at the same time.

GREAT STORY and no reviewer looked behind this story and saw the true meaning of this Allegory, except for its physical attributes. Like not be able to see the forest for all its trees. The story tell us, that fear can and must be over come with Courage against the odds. In the movie, Sir Bartlett represented today's establishment and all those, that support it. That lets young man and woman go off to be sacrificed on the altar (stock) of fabricated wars, as a sacrifice to Satan and his minions, under the pretense of security and a benefit to all. The tactic of fear (the Ogre) is used as a ruse to accomplish this, with the threat of a so-called war on terror. Sad, it seems that most viewers have over time bought into this deception.

Bo Duke is the leader of a small town that existed outside of time since the '50's (1850's to be exact). For the inhabitants of said town to continue to exist ageless and disease-free, the townspeople have to sacrifice one of their own to a horribly-CGI'd ogre. Cue a group of curious college students who are searching for the mythical town 150 years later and find more then they bargained for.There was a time when John Schnieder was beloved by millions as one half of the Duke Brothers on the mega-hit show "the Dukes of Hazzard" & then the cult hit "Smallville", seeing that this film starred him piqued my interest. But the moment I saw the incredibly lame 'ogre', I realized that I'd be in for a fiasco. An emotionless, acted-by-the-numbers fiasco. No one really stands out besides Schneider (and even then only because of his past glory) thus making this film highly forgettable fluff. Catherine Isabelle of Ginger Snaps fame also has her talents wasted as the put-upon daughter of the town's leader.My Grade: D DVD Extras: Just trailers for this film, "Sharks in Venice", "Ba'al: the storm god", "Way of War", & "Contract Killers"

This was an attempt at an M N Shayalaman type film and it just doesn't work for me. The acting was poor in most cases and the special effects were really not special. I've seen more convincing ogres given away with breakfast cereal! Someone commented that the fact you saw the Ogre almost straight away in the film, and continuously throughout was refreshing... well, I think the film would have been better if we hadn't seen the thing at all and kept some mystique around the creature. The story was as week as the rest of the film. Given a new script, mainly new cast, new director, new effects department, this film could have been decent... as it is, it's rubbish.