Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed

Movie
German title	Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed
Original title	Ogre
Country of production	Canada , United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2008
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Steven R. Monroe
script	Chuck Reeves
production	Lindsay MacAdam
music	Pinar Toprak
camera	Tom Harting
cut	Asim Nuraney
occupation
John Schneider : Henry Bartlett Chelan Simmons : Hope Bartlett Ryan Kennedy : Mike Katharine Isabelle : Jessica Brendan Fletcher : Stephen Chandler Kyle Labine : Terry Kimberley Warnat : Leah Andrew Wheeler : Franklin John Shaw: Giles Chilton Crane : Hester Tyler Johnston : Matthew John Wardlow : Rolf Michael Puttonen : Abel Alex Zahara : Lawrence Sean Campbell : John Ted Kozma : Daniel Shawn Reis : William Colby Johannson : Peter Jennifer Copping : Gillian

Monster Village - The village of the Accursed (AKA: Ogre ) is a Canadian - American Fantasy - Horror from the year 2008 . The surroundings of Vancouver crazy low budget - TV movie of this genre known for director Steven R. Monroe was consistently negative reviews. First broadcast on the Syfy television channel on March 8, 2008 , Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed - at the center of the plot is a village afflicted by a curse , embodied by a bloodthirsty ogre , which is gradually defending itself against its tormentor , its DVD premiere in Germany on September 26, 2008.

action

Ellensburg, in the 18th century. The small American village in Pennsylvania is hit by a deadly disease . In order to banish them, the local magician Henry Bartlett makes a pact with the unknown - with three agreements: the aging process of the residents is lifted, but they can no longer leave the remote place and have to face a beast that has appeared in the forest, an ogre, each Sacrifice one of their ranks for the year; if this agreement is not kept, all those living in the village are dead.

At present, in the present time, the four teenagers Terry, Mike, Jessica and Leah use an old map to search for this mysterious village that is believed to be lost. Finally, on the trail of the mystery, Mike and Jessica come after Terry and Leah are attacked and killed by a large creature while setting up camp. They cross the border to Ellensburg, but are captured by its residents and are now to serve as the next human sacrifice. Since, after all these years of “victim-compulsion”, massive resistance against Henry Bartlett, the initiator of the evil, which seems to originate from his daughter Hope, arises in the village, the two see only one chance to survive: they have to free, overthrow Henry Bartlett and the ogre, and save yourself and the village.

reception

Monster Village - The village of the Accursed was exclusively concerned with weak ratings, focusing the negative criticism on non-existing tension as well as bad CGI - animation was. The critics of the TV Spielfilm program magazine give an example of their verdict : “Cheap horror trash with a few talented mimes. The ogre is unfortunately not one of them, he was clumsily tricked in the computer. "With the award of a" thumb down "they sum up:" Horror mood killer: dirt instead of Shrek ".

"Conceivably bad horror film with cheap effects, at least set in an atmospheric winter landscape."

- Lexicon of international film

“Steven R. Monroe stages this story without ingenuity and manages to banish any tension from it. The events and twists trickle away and the viewer faces what is presented with a certain lethargy . [...] The ogre is so terribly poorly animated that in his presence he triggers more head shaking than fear and is also used so often that his presence has to be described as inflationary. What's more, his appearances always follow the same pattern. [...] All in all, 'Monster Village' cannot convince at all. A ridiculous ogre trudges through a monotonous and bumpy staged story and most of the film consists of flat dialog and hideous yelling. [...] "

- Christian Horn : filmstarts.de

On kino.de the film is simply referred to as "effective TV horror".

Web links

• Monster Village - The village of cursed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Monster Village in the online movie database
• Monster Village - The village of cursed at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 581 DVD).
2. ↑ Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed on tvspielfilm.de
3. ↑ Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 8, 2016 .  
4. ^ Christian Horn: Monster Village. Criticism from the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved October 9, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Monster Village - The Village of the Cursed ( Ogre ) on kino.de