DVD Review: Plague Town

By Cyril Pearl -- Video Business, 5/18/2009

DARK SKY/MPI
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> Killer kiddies wreak havoc in this atmospheric, low-budget shocker.

Lost tourists stumble into a remote village where an unholy, strangely-bred population is filled with murderous, deformed children in this low-budget shocker from first-time director David Gregory, who cut his teeth directing and producing dozens of making-of featurettes for DVD editions of such genre flicks as The Wicker Man and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. With Plague Town, Gregory delivers an effective, low-budget piece that serves up appropriate atmosphere and the requisite doses of shocks and gore.

Shelf Talk: Better than 2006’s killer kiddie quickie Wicked Little Things, Plague Town deserves a place on the shelf closer to the leaders of the genre. Stick it in between 1960’s Village of the Damned and the Children of the Corn series.

Horror, color, NR (mature themes, gore, intense situations), 88 min., DVD $24.98, BD $29.98
Extras: commentary, featurettes
Director: David Gregory
First Run: DVD premiere