Admirable film.

A Masterpiece!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A group of teens find themselves in ogre their heads. No? :( In order to save themselves from a plague, a small town in the 1800s decide to create a magical pact with a hungry ogre. Each year the town sacrifices one resident to save themselves from the plague, but they also never age, and can never leave the town. Now present day, a group of teens stumble across the town and accidentally unleash the ogre. This isn't exactly original entertainment, but it does include some above par acting, courtesy of the likes of Katherine Isabelle, famous for her stints in Ginger Snaps movies. The dialogue isn't cringe worthy either, which makes a change. The ogre itself actually looked pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. certainly not realistic, but it had a sense of vulnerability which meant it wasn't the usual complete human destroyer. This certainly makes me feel more comfortable approaching the rest of Stephen R. Monroe's work.

This film is one of those original movies by what is now called the SyFy channel. Yes, there are lots and lots of horror movies and science fiction classics from the 1950's through today, but instead of showing them they decide to make the most horrible monsters ever to grace the small screen. I can not believe these bad movies garner larger ratings than the classics, but then who would of thought that "Megashark versus giant octopus" would have been one of the top ten trailers of the year? This one has a setup that I can see what the makers of this film were going for. I kind of think they were sitting around a table and one of them said "let's make a version of the film the Village, but our monster is going to be real". And so they went with it and you the audience will probably not want to go there as the film plods along. The film features a town stuck in the past with the residents living out their days, immortal thanks to a spell put on the town. They will remain immortal as long as they sacrifice one person per year to the evil ogre. Well everything is going fine until a group of young people come across the town and proceed to do all the stupid stuff young people do in these movies. One of which left me rather flabbergasted, as two of them survive this nightmare and for some reason wish to go back. For what reasons I know not, I am guessing it is in fact to pad this film some, but wow what morons.

Un-aging community in the words is discovered by a pair of teens. The community remains forever young thanks to black magic and the occasional sacrifices to the title character. Surprisingly good diversion of a film, won't win any awards, but will fit the bill nicely if you want to curl up on the couch and watch a movie on a rainy night. Basically a TV movie with some blood and gore (the unrated version I saw had decapitations and such). I liked the film enough to contemplate recommending it to friends and even myself as something to consider as worth a second viewing. Is it a great film, absolutely not, and its probably a little too long, but it's still worth a peak.

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.