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.

Daniel LeDure The acting is overall decent, but the problem is the characters that they are playing as. None of the main characters in this film are really likable in any way or form. They are basically a dysfunctional family, and an annoying group of people. This is one of them horror films with such horrible characters, that you don't really care if any of them survive or not.For being such an all-around awful movie, some of the deaths were okay, not fantastic, but just okay. I think that the deaths will be one of the only memorable things about this film. The other memorable things being Rosemary, and the creepy children.The deaths were okay, but now let's talk about the plot of the movie, which could perhaps best be described as "stupid". An American family who apparently cannot stand each other is in another country and come across a bunch of crazy adults and children, and try to survive the night. Like I said, stupid.I personally think this movie is awful, and unless you're bored out of your mind and are desperate to see a horror movie, you need to avoid this title. My rating for Plague Town: 1

levismits Family members who seem to dislike one another, creepy Irish scenery and a girl that looks like the chick from the Grudge and the jigsaw puppet had a baby. All of the ingredients for a good horror flick are there, but wait, it's not good at all. It sucks big time.This movie started really promising with the family walking down the Hills of Ireland. The director really set a mood when the bunch started getting annoyed with one another. The film was great up to the point where everybody split up to have random encounters with strange mutant/zombie kids and their psychotic parents. There is no story, no reason why everybody gets killed and there is no coherence in the plot whatsoever. The only good thing about this movie is the cinematography and the actress who plays the youngest daughter of the family (that's why I gave it two stars)The pacing is bad. The dialog is scratch-your-ears-off horrible. There is no real story. The characters are hyper-dumb (ever for a horror flick it's too much)I watched the whole thing hoping I'd get an explanation for all the weirdness but no. Sometimes movies that leave the viewer wondering about the story are good (like in my opinion; the village, the Hamilton's, the Blair witch project), this one isn't. I bought it on DVD for only $2,- and still it feels like I wasted my money. I should have bought a nice hamburger, I would've enjoyed myself better.

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.