The greatest movie ever!

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I seriously like unusual creatures and this beats watching Shrek any day.The story was something out of Brigadoon or 2001 Maniacs. A village appears every so often and they have to make a sacrifice to the ogre to keep living. That's living? Some college kids are searching for the village and they unleash the ogre.The rest of the film, for those that tuned out halfway, is some serious bloodletting as the ogre rips off heads or just smashes them with his big foot.Chelan Simmons (Final Destination 3) is wasted as there are no tanning beds in this story.

Ogre was not a good, let alone great, movie, but considering the uninspiring title that I was expecting schlock, I was pleasantly surprised. It does have a lot of flaws, starting with the terrible effects, sadly the Ogre is no exception. There is still the lame gore and cheesy dialogue, while the story is thin, predictable and at times tedious. On the other hand, it is one of the more tolerable movies I've seen on the SyFy channel, because while not mind-blowing the acting does look as though they are putting effort into their roles, John Schneider in particular is interesting to watch. Katherine Isaballe does at times overdo it with the shrillness though. The characters are not characters you remember for years, but they are not as irritating as other characters from the likes of the SyFy disaster movies for instance, and they are not as blatantly stereotypical either. Although the effects do cheapen the film, Ogre didn't look too bad to me, the editing was at least not slip-shod and there was attempts at an atmosphere. Again, the music is nothing extraordinary, but it has some haunting themes and it doesn't feel as though it is slowing the film down. All in all, not bad, not good, just scraping the average line. 5/10 Bethany Cox

'Ogre' is about so much more than a few kids getting trapped in a town as possible sacrifices to appease a beast. Where most would spend the bulk of the film in slow build up to such a moment, SYFY brilliantly gets into the action very soon, leaving the audience wondering "O.K. how do we keep this interesting for another hour?". Then, they answer: captivating characters(yes, there is actually good acting in this one!), levels and history to build a very well-rounded story, and mystery and twists to keep us not only interested, but on the edge of our seats waiting for what will be thrown at us next! The visual effects are not to be raved about, but this was definitely original and well done. An instant favorite!

Ogre starts in the small (two buildings actually...) town of Ellensford in Pensylvania during the year 1859, there a terrible plague has spread through the town infecting & killing a lot of the population. Local mage Sir Barlett Henry (John Schneider) claims that by using his magic he can rid Ellensford of the deadly plague but at a price, with nowhere left to go & their friends & family dying all around them the townsfolk have no choice but to agree. Sir Henry uses a spell to manifest all the disease & evil in the town into a huge unfriendly flesh eating Ogre that demands a human sacrifice every year to appease it. Jump forward to the Present Day as four friends, Terry (Kyle Labine), Leah (Kimberly Warnat), Mike (Ryan Kennedy) & Jessica (Katharine Isabelle) find Ellensford while out camping in the woods. They discover the town is trapped in time & has been terrorised by the Ogre for over a Century, however the townspeople have had enough & decide to fight the Ogre & free themselves from the curse...This American Canadian production was directed by Steven R. Monroe & originally premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel & to be brutally honest Ogre is crap. Yet another 'Creature Feature' with terrible CGI computer effects I think there's a factory somewhere which churn this type of film out for the Sci-Fi Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel sure likes it's generic lifeless 'Creature Features' & I have seen dozens of the things on there. The script by Chuck Reeves is a little bit more imaginative than usual although the end result is still the same, for a change the giant creature/insect/monster isn't a result of a genetic experiment gone wrong or the result of some experiment to create the ultimate weapon for the military which are the usual stand by explanations. No, here there's a small town stuck in a time warp that is a clear rip-off of The Village (2004) which is terrorised by a big Ogre that doesn't look too dissimilar to Shrek (2001) & then it spins the whole story around the old as mud plot about teenage kids becoming lost & then menaced by something evil that isn't a million miles off The Blair Witch Project (1999) or any number of teen slasher flicks. Unfortunately none of these elements come together to make a good film, Ogre is really slow going, it's boring, it makes no real sense (if the town is cut off from the real world where did they get supplies from like food, clothes, candles, bullets etc & how can this huge Ogre that usually roars & stomps his feet about generally making lots of noise sneak up on so many people without them noticing?) if you think about it & the special effects are far from special. The set-pieces revolving around the Ogre are poor, they lack energy or excitement & feel very flat. The character's are poor & I never felt for anyone who was killed, the dialogue is poor, the subplot about the evil mage Sir Henry goes nowhere & by the hour mark all I wanted was for it to finish.Right lets talk special effects, the Ogre looks awful. The Ogre makes an appearance within the first ten minutes & it's an awful CGI computer effect, why didn't the makers keep him in the shadows until much later in the film? Why show such a bad special effect so early? It just ruins the films credibility straight away, it's hilarious to see the various character's try to act terrified around it when it just looks so poor. It never moves anything on the ground when it walks, it never leaves footprints despite being huge & it never really feels like it's there if you know what I mean, it just feels like a computer image on the screen that doesn't interact with anything else. The film has a really bland look & feel to it, the period costumes are alright but we never see more than two buildings at any one time & in my book that doesn't even equate to a street let alone anything approaching that could be described as a town. The gore is tame, there's a severed arm, a severed leg, a slashed open stomach, someones head is stepped on & crushed & the best bit involves someone getting their head bitten off by the Ogre & their headless body falling to the ground spurting blood from the neck stump, unfortunately we never do get to see the Ogre eat anyone.If you take away the poor CGI computer generated Ogre then the film isn't too badly made but it doesn't have any style or substance. Shot on location in Vancouver in British Columbia in Canada. The acting isn't too bad to be fair, the kids are suitably attractive if nothing else.Ogre is another poor Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' that tries to be a bit different but at the end of the day turns out exactly the same as any other except for the setting, Ogre isn't as bad as say Bone Eater (2007) (what is?) but it's still pretty bad all the same.