Catherine McMorrow, Daniel Martin Berkey, David Lombard

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Directed by: David Gregory, John Cregan

Release Date: January 1, 2008

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DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009

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  • June 20, 2009
    A few tense and/or creepy moments but otherwise a lackluster killer kids movie with a typical and unsatisfying ending.
  • May 22, 2009
    This is pretty incredible for a low budget feature. At the conclusion of this film, I definitely decided that this is one fictional horror town I NEVER want to end up in; I'd rather face Leatherface to be honest.

    Now the downers. The acting is at best lukewarm. The makeup varies...( read more) in effectiveness from "you need to reapply that" to "okay that's acceptable for an amateur"; in a few wide shots, it is clear that the production couldn't afford/bother to makeup the antagonistic children. The effects crew seems to do much better with the blood, keeping coloring and flow pretty consistently good. The characters often make questionable decisions, but what is this genre without such idiocy on part of the characters?

    You can feel that these people are truly stranded and surrounded. The town, once revealed, is just as eerie and backwards as you would expect. The girls' ritual performed on the surviving Brit is quite satisfyingly sick.

    This is one of the better indie efforts I've seen in a long time and I wouldn't be surprised to see a large budget American remake in the pipeline.
  • August 22, 2009
    not bad, really slow going. i don't care what anyone says from that town, why would you believe anything they say? kill them all!!
  • August 20, 2009
    Quite an enjoyable indie horror flick. I feel the story lacked depth, nothing about the history of the Irish town or the plague was ever explained. I think the movie could have also explored the "cleansing" aspect a lot more as the creepy children became boring after a while and...( read more) it was the adults who were genuinely sick and twisted. Their attempts at cleansing their unbown children could have really gone much much further than what we saw on the screen.

    Still, even with an unsatisying ending, I'd still recommend this to lovers of horror. And before I am asked if it has any cool death scenes, yes, the English guy who was easily the most annoying character had a very difficult time dying.
  • July 9, 2009
    Slow and boring town is more like it...
  • June 13, 2009
    Frustratingly average "village with a secret" horror film, with a confused and predictable plot trajectory, precious few scares, and an ending I've now seen in at least half a dozen other films. The very low budget shows - characters are bludgeoned with tree limbs bloodlessly and...( read more) unconvincingly - with what looks like a good percentage of the money going on a, actually quite decent, CGI assisted death by cheese wire. The acting, with the exception of Josslyn DeCrosta, is astonishingly bad and the script certainly doesn't help matters. But even with more money thrown at the project and some star power, Plague Town only has a couple of truly original ideas, which are unfortunately not expanded upon in any meaningful way. Though the directors and DeCrosta show some promise, there's very little here that is interesting or new, meaning this is just another run-of-the-mill deformed-people-in-the-woods flicks, heading to a bargain bin near you.
  • June 4, 2009
    Plague Town appears outwardly to be a very traditionalist survivalist horror film, along the same road as The Hills Have Eyes. It?s a tale about a dysfunctional family?s road trip through the English countryside that turns horribly wrong. The cast of characters lend...( read more) instant dynamic drama to the situation based on their own internal conflicts. The father (David Lombard) has brought along his two daughters, Molly (Josslyn DeCrosta), who has emotional problems, and Jessica (Erica Rhodes), the self-centered one. Jessica's boyfriend tags along. A British boy by the name of Robin, who?s only goal it would seem is to get laid. Then their's Dad?s girlfriend Annette (Lindsey Goranson). When the family misses the last bus home from an afternoon picnic, they eventually find out that their British holiday has just turned into a nightmare.




    As I was watching, I realized this movie isn't half bad for what it is - just a very low budget horror film. I thought they made best with what limited resources they were given, and made a half decent little film. Something I could respect. Then, after finding out the budget was somewhere over $1-million (still pretty low). Sure, Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson made it work well with far less than that - inflation included - and look where that got them. Sure, not everybody can be like Raimi or Jackson. The point is that limitations don't have to enable laziness ? they can force creativity and ingenuity.




    Movies about killer kids are hardly a new idea, but fortunately Plague is somewhat a breath of fresh air, despite the glittering generalities of the plot points. As with Hills, the threat turns out to be mutants ? mutant children in this case. The girl ghoul on display in the movie's print advertising has jawbreaker-sized doll eyes strapped over her empty eye sockets. This is one of many attempts at surreal imagery. Sure, she looks pretty frighting for a little while, but loses it after awhile. Precious few of these surreal images work, mainly because director David Gregory keeps them in view for far too long.


    Rating: C
  • May 16, 2009
    Would have been much better if they provided more in depth source about the past and had some more gore scenes. However a good movie to rent possibly buy for horror collectors.
  • May 14, 2009
    Interesting idea but boring at times and poorly acted..Was expecting a lot more from this film

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