George Clarke Another great Halloween buy at my local Pound store. Or so I thought!Madison County is an indie horror that falls flat on its face by boring the viewer for the first 45 minutes, then torturing them with mild horror as the cliché bunch of all American teens run about screaming and flexing muscle... somewhat.On that, the cast was okay. Not bad, but not great!Direction was okay. Not bad, but could have been a lot better to help bring more excitement to things.I had high hopes for Madison County, but alas it was a one time watch that helped me sleep.Oh, what could have been!

GL84 Heading out to a small town in the country, a group of friends investigating a local legend of a vicious killer try to look past the spurned locals to get to the truth and find a more deadly version than they wanted.This turned out to be quite a decent slasher effort overall, although it does have some pretty big problems. The first one is that the film contains the all-too-familiar-and-irritating trope of having people with knowledge of what's going on purposefully keep it from those that would need such information to stay out of harm's way. Naturally, that would kill off the movie but in a realistic setting, it's ridiculous to continually feature such a proved irritating tactic. As well, for a slasher film this gets going pretty late in the storyline as there's a lot more time than expected dealing with the group and their individual romances that are built up a little too long before we get anywhere interesting. This is compounded by it's criminal lack of gore in it's killings, which are brutal in concept but criminally lacking in execution. That said, there's some fun to be had with it's back-half being loaded with all the stalking being done in a pretty creepy location, a rather imposing killer and his mask that make quite an impression, and a really intriguing mystery explored in the first half that make this one a lot better than it really could've been.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity and drug use.

hell_astateofmind Besides being mediocre, this film was a straight pile of crap. Kitchen knives with double-sided blades, shovels as a main murder weapon, and a whole damn town in on a murderous conspiracy? WTH. Oh, and what the hell kind of undergraduate major writes a thesis about a pseudo-nonfiction book and the town it concerns? Is that for the Bachelor's of Science in Utter Crap? The idea for this movie had a great deal of potential, but it was poorly realized and executed.Also, guns. This is America, there are plenty of people exercising their 2nd amendment rights, so how is it that there is an entire town of people without a. single. freaking. gun.?!

karl_consiglio My first serious complaint as such was when they stop at the diner. They were hungry and they stopped there. They are soon leaving. Did they eat? We never see the food. The creature himself is really not scary. One nutter with a pig's head in the middle of nowhere. I don't know how those remaining by the house got so separated. Anyways all you really got to do is run. The surviving girl is traumatized but as such unharmed. Run luv!! Then there is the other survivor, he beats the psycho up, but never finishes him off. And there is a lot of not hanging on to one's weapons, obviously the nutter keeps getting up. An all round cliché. What a lot of wait for nothing.