A Disappointing Continuation

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Blistering performances.

I hate to say it but John Schneider doesn't do a villain very well. The acting was personable enough that you cared when most of the characters, that you got to know, died. The plot is: John Schneider is essentially a wizard in a small town in the woods of Pennsylvania in 1859. A practitioner of the black arts but has the appearance of not really a bad guy despite this, he decides that the Mayor needs to go and magically inflicts him with a plague. Unfortunately, the plague spreads at an alarming rate and, once the Wizard's daughter is infected, he creates an even worse spell that takes away the plague but summons a monster (The Ogre) That requires a sacrifice every year or it will destroy the whole town. The spell keeps the townies from having kids or aging. Fast forward to present day when one of four young adults gets a map to a mysterious town. He grabs his pals to go camping and to find the lost town of Ellensford...and hilarity ensues (Well...not so much). What I love about this movie is that it relates a message that is conveyed through feeling it. It illustrates the point in the storytelling. True to good story telling, they don't say it...they illustrate it. There are few horror movies that can do this well and this makes the movie superior to the simple hack and slash genre. Another example of this (superior) would be 'The Fly' (1958). They could have made a better movie if they stepped in with both feet. This one required a little bit extra (and a few less voice acting Extras). My usual complaint with the technical. IE. People firing a muzzle loading musket and faking massive recoil...while one of the protagonists can fire a 12 Gauge shotgun one handed and there is none. No money in the budget for a phone call to the Bass Pro shop?The grand message is: 'Living in fear is no life at all'.The movie wasn't all that it could have been but it kept me engaged when I'm often very easily bored of TV. It's a refreshing change to have a movie stir up some emotions while getting a larger point across. Not bad.

I'm into fantasy horror films and I was looking for something to watch on the tablet. I thought of a couple of choices before Ogre came into my head. I have just finished watching it and I thought it was not bad. I have gave this film 8 stars as I have only 2 problems with it. Well one problem and one confusing moment. First, the confusing moment. It began off with a small town that has been infected with a plague and obviously they needed a cure. The questions that came to mind, are how the ogre was actually formed? And why choose an ogre as an alternative? The ogre could still work but just change the origin a bit. Now for the problem. The character Hope, portrayed by some girl called Chelan Simmons, whispered throughout the whole film. Every time she spoke, I mocked her and kept telling her to talk properly. Why do women whisper every time they speak? That's what I want to know. The only times she didn't whisper were the bits where she shown her father the plague and when her boyfriend was chosen to be sacrificed. If she had learned to speak properly, it would have been better.

GREAT STORY and no reviewer looked behind this story and saw the true meaning of this Allegory, except for its physical attributes. Like not be able to see the forest for all its trees. The story tell us, that fear can and must be over come with Courage against the odds. In the movie, Sir Bartlett represented today's establishment and all those, that support it. That lets young man and woman go off to be sacrificed on the altar (stock) of fabricated wars, as a sacrifice to Satan and his minions, under the pretense of security and a benefit to all. The tactic of fear (the Ogre) is used as a ruse to accomplish this, with the threat of a so-called war on terror. Sad, it seems that most viewers have over time bought into this deception.

Un-aging community in the words is discovered by a pair of teens. The community remains forever young thanks to black magic and the occasional sacrifices to the title character. Surprisingly good diversion of a film, won't win any awards, but will fit the bill nicely if you want to curl up on the couch and watch a movie on a rainy night. Basically a TV movie with some blood and gore (the unrated version I saw had decapitations and such). I liked the film enough to contemplate recommending it to friends and even myself as something to consider as worth a second viewing. Is it a great film, absolutely not, and its probably a little too long, but it's still worth a peak.