Plague Town (2008) #371

"Plague Town" was a random film I picked up at my local video store (Scarecrow Video), a movie that I had never heard of before but one that looked promising enough. I felt that the first scene was interesting and that it set up several possible story lines but what followed was a complete and utter disappointment. Just because a movie has a low budget doesn't mean that the actors have to be untalented or over act their various parts. Simply because a movie has a low budget doesn't mean that the plot has to not make sense. Being low budget isn't an excuse! The lighting is fine, the make up is effective (especially for the character Rosemary), and the film quality is respectable. The rest of the film after the scene is nonsense and a waste of valuable movie watching time.


A dysfunctional family is attempting to take a vacation together in the middle of the Irish countryside. They miss their bus back to civilization after the two sisters get into a fight with each other. When night comes, the older sister leaves with her boyfriend and the two soon come across a local who becomes agitated and shoots the boyfriend as the older sister runs off into the woods. The father figure goes out to find help and is killed by two little girls wearing masks. The mother and younger sister are attacked by a mob of teenage children, with the mother being killed by being hit in the head repeatedly with a hubcap. Soon the sisters find each other and try to escape the weird little town with the weird population of mutant children and the adults who keep trying to have normal babies....