Ogre (2008)

Did you people see the same film I saw?

An absolute waste of money

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Hiking through the Pennsylvania wilderness, a group of friends find a find a mythical town gripped in fear of a terrible ogre demanding a sacrifice in exchange for eternal youth and must find a way of stopping it before they succumb the creature's wrath.This here was quite a decent enough creature feature. One of the better feature here is the admittedly fun story throughout, which starts not only with the story of the plague that's at the root of the villagers' trouble here with some great bit of folklore in this to go along with the witchcraft featured here. Not only does the rules of their pact make up a large part of this, as the covenant of featuring the sacrifice in exchange for never aging being quite enjoyable but the ties to the mythical creature and the spells necessary to ward it off at the end bring a lot of fun into play here and gives this a really nice foundation to work with. This makes for some good times here when they get to the village and encounter the townspeople where it gets spelled out in several rather fun action scenes here with the sacrificial offering that gets interrupted when they free him, the resulting chase into the woods and finally battling the creature there which gives this some really enjoyable moments as it ties into the legend and mythology started here. The finale, which brings about the utter fun rampage through the village using the spells and witchcraft as protection, is the film's highlight where some of the protection spells work and some don't which is all capped off by the trap to finally ensnare the beast developing into a great gunfight in the woods followed by witchcraft to finish it off with some nice action as well. Along with the fine gore in the high body-count from the series of encounters out in the woods which gets some more action and suspense here, these give this a lot to like to overcome the few flaws here. The main issue here is the usual amount of problems here from the below- par CGI featured here, as the main creature looks atrocious and features all the usual criticisms associated here with it being too disproportionate for surroundings from time-to-time, the inability to look realistically and all the visual elements featured here. The other flaw here is that it has a tendency to employ one of the most hated traits in a film where the one character who knows what's going on never explaining anything to the outsiders when performing rituals or actions of great importance that are going to save someone, so when they do something logical in a situation, you get a feeling he'll kill them right then and there for messing up the situation when it all could've been done away with had he simply shared his knowledge so they know what's going on and what's happening as they have no experience in the subject matter. These here are the film's real flaws that hold this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.

A group of teens find themselves in ogre their heads. No? :( In order to save themselves from a plague, a small town in the 1800s decide to create a magical pact with a hungry ogre. Each year the town sacrifices one resident to save themselves from the plague, but they also never age, and can never leave the town. Now present day, a group of teens stumble across the town and accidentally unleash the ogre. This isn't exactly original entertainment, but it does include some above par acting, courtesy of the likes of Katherine Isabelle, famous for her stints in Ginger Snaps movies. The dialogue isn't cringe worthy either, which makes a change. The ogre itself actually looked pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. certainly not realistic, but it had a sense of vulnerability which meant it wasn't the usual complete human destroyer. This certainly makes me feel more comfortable approaching the rest of Stephen R. Monroe's work.

Actually, not bad for a Sci-Fi channel movie.Essentially, it's 1857, and a small town in Pennsylvania is beset by a plague, and makes a Faustian bargain with the town's magi to cure it. They all get to live forever, but they have to sacrifice one of their number every year to a bad CGI ogre and can never leave the town, lest they disintegrate. They never get cable.Oddly, no one ever finds this town for 150 years, until four college kids find it. Two wander into town while two others release the Ogre early. Well, the Ogre goes on a rampage, and hilarity ensues.But this is a little better than most of the 100 similar movies that Skiffy buys from the Direct to DVD discard bin. The performances are okay, and it's better than the usual "dead teenager" horror movie.The weakest element is the ogre itself. It looks like it was made by some Warcraft Nerd on his computer.

This was an attempt at an M N Shayalaman type film and it just doesn't work for me. The acting was poor in most cases and the special effects were really not special. I've seen more convincing ogres given away with breakfast cereal! Someone commented that the fact you saw the Ogre almost straight away in the film, and continuously throughout was refreshing... well, I think the film would have been better if we hadn't seen the thing at all and kept some mystique around the creature. The story was as week as the rest of the film. Given a new script, mainly new cast, new director, new effects department, this film could have been decent... as it is, it's rubbish.