joopaul I didn't expect a lot from a lowish budget B movie but I admit I quite enjoyed this film for being eerily atmospheric and for the impressive acting by the main characters. The ogre's menacing growl from deep in the forest felt quite unnerving.John Schneider slotted very neatly into his powerful convincing character. Clearly a versatile actor!I would have given this film a 7 if it wasn't for ( and I think most people would agree with me here ) a very ify ogre that seemed to be dropped in from a below average video game. When you think of the possible great GGI available in 2008 the ogre certainly could have been vastly improved ( budget allowing ). Yep, a well presented, very well acted, partly 19th Century set sci-fi fantasy film let down by the 19th century CGI.

abominablebro I didn't really know what to expect from this film before watching it. I could never have predicted what was in store for me. This movie was wonderful and extremely entertaining. The plot is pretty much perfect, although somewhat complicated. The majority of the cast did a great performance especially John Schneider and Chelan Simons. Very well thought out dialog and delivered spectacularly. The only reason that I'm not giving this movie a 10/10 is because the CGI is not good, but the setting made the CGI just a little bit better. The great plot and acting made basically covered up that flaw, though. The ending to this movie had to be the best thing about it. It's so beautiful and might be a tear-jerker for some soft-hearted viewers. This is one upperclass B-movie to remember.

Aaron1375 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.

mattpbates 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.