mwidunn-95-631875 The director and producer seem to have thought that explicit gore would carry this movie, rather than any storyline. From the first few minutes, one sees a Priest getting a fire poker lodged in his brain -- explicitly -- with the lodger of said poker then -- again, explicitly -- jostling the poker around in the Priest's head because it's gotten stuck. Simple "gore for gore's sake." Disgusting; unnecessary.You see, apparently, the women of this small Irish town have started giving birth to deformed, evil (how would they know?) babies. The Priest keeps killing the newborns off, but the wielder of the poker decides that enough is enough. He kills the Priest, saying: "Shorry, Fadder! We've got to live which arr fate [ . . . or, some such]." That statement turns out to be nothing but a part of the general slew of meaningless nonsense that is in this film.A town plagued with deformed babies? A town plagued with evil babies? A town plagued with both deformed and evil babies? . . . WHO KNOWS? The tag for the movie reads: "It's in the blood." Yet, this is a reference . . . to what, in particular, in the movie? Is blood needed for something? Or, are the evil kids infected?The story's incomprehensible: Why are the kids deformed? Why do the village's inhabitants act like wackoes? What does the thin, white- skinned girl have to do with anything? What IS the "Plague" (i. e., is it the deformity or the desire to kill)?And, also: Could someone, please, explain the significance of the masks? Why do the children wear them? Why do they sometimes not wear them?Who is the white-skinned girl? What's her purpose?In the interviews in the "Extras," the Director says that the killing is like playing for the children. So, . . . they're just PLAYING? Are you kidding me? That attempt at an explanation reveals to me, that once the filming got started he had absolutely no idea in which direction to lead the film. Hence, the reliance on pointless gory scene after gory scene.Not worth your time -- even for the gorehound.

tbranson-2 Sure Plague Town is another Rural Americans running amok movie, inexplicably set in Ireland- Although it looks like it was shot in Pennsylvania. Some of the accents are ridiculous but mostly every one does a great job.The script has its ups & downs but the direction is pretty solid. The make up effects are also hit & miss. The shotgun wound to the face, is a big hit where some of the mutant kids look rushed. But my hat is off to whoever came up with Rosemary, the eyeless beauty. That was an inspired character and really brought the film up a notch or two.Good old fashioned horror!

sleeping_gorilla Plague Town is a B-Movie in the vein of Wrong Turn, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A dysfunctional family discovers a village of horrors in a remote Irish countryside.The movie relies tired horror tropes, and is only occasionally scary. ***SPOILER*** Notably when the children first show up by the car, and the subsequent beating with the hub cap. ***END SPOILER***Too many "scary" scenes are long shots of heavily prosthetic actors basically standing around throwing random things at a "terrified" character. The principal acting isn't terrible, at times it's almost improve ("We have one!")Notable performance from Josslyn DeCrosta, though she and Erica Rhodes become pretty annoying as the second half of the movie goes south. Not to be a voyeur but with the "plot" of this movie and 3 attractive actresses it would have made sense for the girls to show a little skin.The soundtrack is pretty good, though constantly there. If you are a die hard horror fan, this movie will probably entertain you. I recorded this along with "Daisy Chain" as part of the Chillers St. Patrick's Day marathon. Daisy Chain is a much better film, but I'm sure that Plague Town will find an audience.

Seb An arguing American family wander into an area populated by mutant kids with porridge on their faces. Unfortunately this movie has no atmosphere at all except for one scene with a creepy boggle eyed girl in the kitchen.Really I lost interest the moment I saw two small children wrap a piece of piano wire around the fathers head and literally cut his head in half. What the hell was that about? That doesn't even make sense.From there on there's just basically what you'd expect from a film of the inbred local genre but without any real flourishes of strangeness that it needed. Porridge on faces isn't a good substitute for deformity and social weirdness so the whole thing felt a bit flat. I liked the ending though, that at least was creepy and sinister.Really this is mediocre, if you want to watch a film about normal people wandering into the path of inbred weirdos there's about 300 better films to choose from.