Jug Face (2013)

Simply A Masterpiece

hyped garbage

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Really a surprisingly good film but may not appeal to everyone. Jug Face is a well-written, well- acted horror minor masterpiece that could get cult status. Lauren Ashley Carter does a superb acting role playing Ada, a naive girl in the backwoods. It plays on superstition but turned real in a hidden strict religious cult that worships something inhuman. Acting was unusually good with an unknown cast. It's a morbid, frank film that might turn off people with it's redneck, hillbilly approach, incest, womanhood, repression, superstition and gore. Ada runs out of choices, good or bad, and has to face the consequences. It's highly original and should be well-appreciated for the acting, screenplay and creativity. However, it's bizarre look at a incestuous cult might make a few heads turn.

Being an avid horror fan, I've watched plenty of poorly done B-Movies. This is not poorly made and is well done. I had overlooked it for two years based on it's cover appearance and lack of good reviews. Well this was one of those rare times I'm glad I watched the movie anyway. The reason I viewed this movie was due to a comment I found regarding the plot in a list of Lovecrafted Themed movies. I know this usually promises a movie will be even terrible but I was intrigued by the mention of a backwoods community worshiping a thing in a pit. This may be one of the best cult movies I've ever seen because it is told from the backwoods perspective of a member of the community that worships some ab-horrid thing that lives in a watery pit.Usually these movies fall flat when you see the thing in the pit. Not so in this movie. There are even a couple familiar faces including Sean Young a hotty from the 80's and 90's. If any of this appeals to you definitely check this movie out. You'll be impressed.

A reclusive backwoods society maintains their way of life by making sacrifices to an unspecified monster. When a teenage girl discovers both that she is pregnant and she's the next sacrifice, she tries to escape her fate. Some blood, but mostly just creepy and sees the ending through with more focus than A-List movies. Acting is not just serviceable but good, especially since it deals with backwoods archetypes that it's hard to not turn into a parody. This thing is deadly serious and realistically portrayed even with the supernatural elements.Good movie - kind of a different take on "Winter's Bone" if you liked that. Check it out.

A weird thing here. At first dark, textured about hillbilly life, promising some novelty. The handpainted credits bespeak of more personal work, that this comes to us from people who wanted to be creative and not some Hollywood office.A girl in a repressive backwoods village becomes pregnant just as her parents have arranged marriage and then a mysterious force in the woods (centered in a pit that the people venerate) that seemingly can divine these things, demands blood sacrifice in return for healing and grants visions.All the tension and strangeness in us being called to parse these wrathful metaphysics through the eyes of people that genuinely believe in them and allow them to dictate life while independent of them having to juggle the possibility that it's all a backwards hallucination, possibly invented: that the imbecile potter merely sculpts faces from a stupor or thin air but does that make the hold of evil less real?It's clear that they only had a small sketch of the idea as they set to work, interesting at first but goes nowhere, never deeper than something in the earth has to be appeased and the madness of being unable to fathom order; it's still more textured than all the Texas Chainsaw clones, more unusual, but it just smears around with the mythology it creates. A complete loss by the end. Sad.