Plague Town

If your family heritage goes back to a place in a foreign land, you might want to visit the area and check it out.  If your family heritage goes back to a foreign land and the name of the place that you need to visit is called "The Ruins", do you really want to go and visit?  The wacky family in this movie does.

 

Fourteen years ago, there was something wrong with women giving birth.  The local priest is visiting a home where a lady is about to give birth.  Once the child is born, the priest, of all people, wants to shoot the baby.  The father will have none of that and hits him in the head with a fire poker and once he is to the ground, the priest gets a hatchet to the face.  Pretty gruesome beginning.

 

Present Day

 

Dad and his fiance, along with his two daughters and a guy they picked up three days ago are in the Irish countryside.  They take their chances roaming about and miss the last bus going back to town.  Luckily, the fiance packed a lunch for everyone.

 

Night falls and after making an abandoned car their base, the new guy and the blond daughter head out to try and find help.  They come across a fellow in a field, standing in front of a tractor in the middle of night, and ask for assistance.  He doesn't really want to help and shoots the boy in the neck, which prompts the blond to run away.

 

After hearing the gunshot, the father is concerned and he wants to investigate.  He finds a house and inside there are two little girls.  One of the girls stabs him with a glass shard and he tries to find them after they run from the room.  COOL DEATH SCENE ALERT:  The two girls get some piano wire stretched across the eyes of the dad and pull it through to the back of the skull.  Clip, clop.  He falls over.

 

The boy that got shot in the neck, did not die.  DISTURBING DEATH SCENE ALERT: Later in the movie, he gets chased and after having his eyes poked out, he has a vine threaded through his eye sockets and hung up.

 

The ending is very odd to this movie.  The surviving sisters escape, but are captured and returned to the town.  They are there to help breed out the sickness in the children.

 

This movie is not that bad, it's not that good either.  It has the standard horror film plot of outsiders show up where they shouldn't be and get killed off because of it.  The only thing this film is missing is a deep, dark basement.

 

I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 creepy, plagued children.