Friday, October 28, 2011

Plague Town

(2008) **1/2

A family travels from the US to Ireland to explore the home of their ancestors. On route, they encounter the creepiest bunch of kids. They wind up stranded in this freakish town full of weird mutants. The mutants tease, torment and torture them. But could there be a deeper connection?

Is there something in my eye?

This little film has got some game. It’s a simple story, one we’ve all seen a hundred times, outsiders trapped in a town with freakish locals. Still, these people are really creepy, they look frightening and behave bizarrely. Not a bad little find, when all was said and done.

3 comments:

DKC said...

Totally dig the freaky eyes!

Catfreeek said...

Thank you! I was waiting for someone to comment on them. I so want to do that for a Halloween costume.

Octopunk said...

Yeah, those are whack.

I love it when a "stuck in a village full of crazies" story features inhabitants who are somehow monsterized. That's a total gamechanger for me, in a good way.

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