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Simply A Masterpiece

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I've seen worse movies, and this one did keep my interest. The creature effects are great.....but I have many problems with it, such as:SPOILER ALERTS.......SPOILER ALERTS.......SPOILER ALERTS....SERIOUSLY!1. Nic Rhind is good in his role, but he hardly comes across as a bad boy....more like the boy-next-door. We don't for one minute think he's a bad boy. He doesn't drink, smoke or curse, but then I guess he does ride a motorcycle, and he's supposed to be an ex-con, so that makes him a bad boy.2. Likewise, Robyn Ledoux is fine in her role, but the screenplay portrays her as the smartest girl on earth, as she scans old manuscripts and documents and in minutes finds out what they are dealing with and how to stop it. Not believable.3. The hideous creature eats it's way into the victim's belly button, right through their clothes several times, without leaving a hole in the person's clothes or their belly. Huh? No scars left behind by that thing? Come on.4. The first victim just disappears without a trace, as though his body is never found.5. The real trackers are in town, but stay away from the investigation while two college kids do the real work. Why? They only show up to mop-up after numerous victims have died.6. The victims spend about an hour with the creature feeding on their bodies, yet our college boy hero is compelled to pass it along after only a few minutes. I guess he just couldn't stomach the darn thing. His girlfriend knew that to remain safe, they both needed to drink lots of booze, but she didn't bother telling him? Poor guy gets a bad bellyache.7. And of course, the sweet young girl comes to the rescue, fighting off that monstrous creature like Xena, The Warrior Princess.In short, with some added scenes, and a few changes, it would have been much better.

Scott (Nick Rhind) has come to town, meeting his ex Jesse (Robyn Ledoux) in the process. Well, also in said town, a church has burned down, and it had entombed an ancient pestilence called "The Scourge", which has gotten loose, and starts turning anyone it infects into a hungry, belching, zombie like being that eats any kind of food, and attacks and spreads the parasite. Can Scott and Jesse stop The Scourge before it's too late, and rekindle their love in the process? Can they deal with Corrupt Sheriff Durst (Russ Ferrier)? Will you find any reason to care? I will give "Scourge" this much: it does have a few decent gory scenes (best one: jaw punched nearly off), a sense of awareness, and the Canadian feeling of the movie doesn't hurt. Also, I like the feel of the movie at times, as it feels like the kind of unambitious but watchable B-Movies you'd get back in the 80's. Oh, and the CG creature effects aren't too bad. They aren't great, but they are better than a lot of low budget CG creations.That's not to say that this is a good movie. If you took "The Hidden" and "Slither", and removed much that made them noteworthy, then "Scourge" is what you get. The whole thing is also a cliché as you get, and not in a good way. Corrupt police? Check. Bad boy with a past? Yep. Rekindled romance between bad boy and ex-girlfriend? Uh huh. Comic relief fat guy? You bet your ass. It also doesn't help that none of the performances here are worth a damn, especially two leads, who have the charisma and chemistry of dry cement. Watching them, I couldn't help but roll my eyes when they finally got together, and this is coming from a guy whose a bit of a romantic at heart. I normally love seeing two people get together, but not if I don't care about them.I didn't really hate "Scourge". but that's because I didn't really give a s#!t about it either. If you're going to watch it, wait until it comes on TV, particularly the Chiller channel, which tends to pick up movies like this regularly.

I thought this might turn out to be one of those gems you find in the B-movie horror selection, but I was wrong. Boy was I wrong. Good premise, good use of the budget available, not to shabby FX (minus some CG fire). Those are it's only strengths, and even that's being generous.The acting isn't usually an issue for me in movies of this type, but when it's so bad it becomes distracting, well......I mean come on, the actors aren't even trying to say their lines with any conviction, regardless of how bad the script might be.And yes, the dialog is horrible, completely unconvincing. Again, this isn't usually a problem in horror films except when it's so bad you can't ignore it.There is a serious lack of direction in the film where you have scenes just kinda thrown in there that don't seem to do anything but provide a chance to tie the lead character to more murders, which after the second person dies is all but impossible except maybe in the mind of whomever wrote this script. Most horror films do rely on certain bad luck principles, but when you see how the photographer gets infected in front of dozens of people, only to realize no one seemed to notice a dead body come to life and infect him.....well, I wish I could say this was an exception to the weird coincidences of this movie, but it's not.There's plenty more wrong with it, too much to list here. It seems that this movie was shot in two days, so skip it.

well usually don't watch b-rate movies but the name interested me.... so here i am watching this epic fail and i just thought i would lay down a comment... while the movie was entertaining and interesting its all been done before however this has a particularly weak dialogue and storyline and the acting was terrible.... however i blame the script not the actors.... The cinematography wasn't bad and the graphic effect of the "monster" wasn't bad either (for a b movie).... I have seen a lot worse movies if u have nothing else to do then maybe give this a look but otherwise give it a miss... i got the movie from start to finnish but further dialogue to explain the situation in more detail would have made the movie better.... well don't want to add any spoilers but a better explanation or more of the churches involvement would have been prudent... as the movie does start with a church... idk my thoughts yes no maybe... gave it 4 because it wasn't a total fail but if you are reading this don't bother....