Advantages: Atmosphere. Well produced - Escapist Disadvantages: Story line too unrealistic for me
Last week I came across one of those special offers in HMV (4 DVds for £20). It was end of the season sale and I picked up a film called "The Village" just to make up the numbers. It struck me as being some sort of clichéd horror film from the blurb on the cover and I didn't expect to be watching it in the very near future. But it was one of those DVDs that keep popping up every time I looked through my shelf of dozens of other unwatched movies. Well the other evening, it popped up again and I just put it in the machine without giving it too much thought. As I wasn't in the mood for thinking anyway, it would probably be an ideal film.
As we got into the film, enter the monster, well, a glimpse of it. It was supposed to be scaring me but even my wife, who makes me jump out of my skin with her sudden screams in scary movies, remained ...
derek-j-a 06.10.2005 (07.10.2005)
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The Village, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan on a budget of 60 million dollars, was going to be a tough follow up for a director known for his twists and turns. As it turned out, there was a twist, but it was a rather low key one, and it was almost apparent from the start, though it is not without a small end revelation, that will surprise you.
This movie starts off really slowly, leading you into the lives of a group of villagers, who live on the outskirts of a wood, in 1897 Pennsylvania, which is seemingly haunted by some nasty hideous monsters, referred to only as, 'Those we do not speak of'. A village where the colour red is not allowed, as it is the colour of evil. The Elders, who have set up and run the village, teach their children that the Towns outside their village is a bad place, and they must never cross into ...
Advantages: Good premise, clever ending Disadvantages: Too similar to other films
While on her way home driving in torrential rain, student Michelle runs out of fuel at the worst possible moment, she just makes it to a petrol station where a strange looking man with a terrible stutter fills up her car. After previously handing over her credit card the man calls her into an office and says that the credit card company need a word with her, she reluctantly enters the office and finds a dead tone upon picking up the phone. The man locks the door and tries to stop her from leaving, Michelle manages to break free and speeds off in the car however she never makes it home.
On the college campus where Michelle was a student, news of her death has yet to reach the students and teachers there. A group of students are talking about a story also known as an urban legend where a psychology teacher went crazy and slaughtered all ...
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