Dreadfully Boring

Absolutely the worst movie.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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.

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.

Matters worsen for a family of American tourists(and the oldest daughter's English boyfriend)after becoming stranded in the Irish countryside running afoul of "plagued" children, with disfigured faces, gleefully homicidal. Josslyn DeCrosta is Molly, always at odds with her smart aleck sister Jessica(Erica Rhodes, suitably capable of delivering her lines with just the right touch of smarmy bitchery)as they accompany their doctor father, Jerry(David Lombard)and his new fiancé, Annette(Lindsay Goranson). Of course, Jessica insists on spoiling everyone's evening, always cross and never at almost any point positive towards the family, for the exception of her new boyfriend Robin(James Warke). Once they miss their bus, looking for assistance, only trouble and terror awaits them since the wilderness is crawling with these soulless, fiendish little monsters, with a hideous visage, always giggling before assaulting their prey. These ghastly pale-skinned kids look like ghouls, in pursuit of fresh victims to slay. Successful documentary director David Gregory, known for his terrific and enlightening interviews with many fixtures of horror and exploitation, allows the carnage to escalate, and there's plenty of cruelty and mania on display. Eventually it's down to Molly and Jessica, often fleeing from the demonic creepies, hoping desperately that some type of help will surface. Unfortunate for them, the adults they come in contact are either loony or determined to have "healthy seeds", meaning that the girls will need to somehow escape from this place, and out of the hands of those that would use them to breed. Gregory sets up an interesting scenario at the opening possibly establishing that the reason behind the hell spawns might be of a religious nature. Whatever the case, the adults have become dedicated, regardless whether it is morally reprehensible or not, to give birth to healthy children, despite the usual outcome. Gregory ends the film on a real sour, depressing note. For gorehounds, Gregory and company orchestrate some pretty potent murder/assault sequences, with probably the most heinous being the use of a hub cap to flog a victim repeatedly across the face as she spits up blood. There's the use of wire to slowly take off half a victim's face, splitting apart his skull. Another grisly scene has a victim, frightened and disoriented after being shot in the face, having to pull his hand away from a butcher knife stuck deep in a table, who is cornered by the children, a sharpened stick broken off into his neck. The use of shard window glass, a hatchet, a butcher knife, and a sickle, all, at one point or another, stab or slice victims. Gregory brings us quite a freakshow, and these kids are certainly grotesque enough to leave an impression, particularly one girl with spooky eyeballs, and the deformed facial features are sure to repulse. This could develop a cult following.

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!