UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

suite92 Opening sequence: young woman wakes up in the back of a pickup, wearing just bra and panties. She jumps out and runs. The man driving the truck stops, runs after her with a shovel. He knocks her out, carries her back, throws her into the back seat. A local looks on, says nothing, seems unperturbed by it.Three young men (Will, James, Kyle) and two young women (Jenna, Brooke) go for a trip to the sticks to interview an author of a book about a serial killer in Madison County. The author has no phone or computer; hence letters and the current interview.About 24 minutes in, the group reaches Madison County and stops for lunch. They ask about the book, Devil in the Woods, the book's author David Randall, and the main character in the book, Damian Ewell. They eventually get the author's address and go there.They find a nice house on private property, but no one answers the door.Kyle does some more digging for information, while the other four hang out at the address they were given. Kyle looks over a cemetery (looking for headstones), then areas nearby. He sees two girls topless in a stream, and tries to start a conversation. The villain comes up behind him, the girls see him, Kyle turns, and gets stabbed to death. The girls do not react at all even though there is a freshly dead human body in the stream with them. This is like the opening sequence: the lack of affect at outrageous events.The foursome explore near the house. Will and Brooke get separated from James and Jenna. Further James and Jenna get separated. Clever. Will buys his real estate while relieving himself. Brooke sees the body of her boyfriend and runs.Jenna and Brooke find each other. James talks to Erma at the diner again. Erma lets him know his time on earth is limited. The killer goes after the young women first. Jenna runs decoy for Brooke, who neither runs away nor helps her friend. The killer does Jenna in with an ax.James is captured along with a father (David Randall, from an earlier scene) and daughter (the young woman from the first sequence). James and the daughter escape, but the David does not. Brooke makes it back to the diner, which is now deserted. Erma claims she has not seen any of Brooke's friends, then offers to drive Brooke to a doctor. Then Erma (Damian's mother) knifes her to death.----Scores----Cinematography: 8/10 Jumpy camera work for perhaps four minutes, but usually quite good.Sound: 6/10 High differences in sound levels. Poor choices of incidental music. Accents? Actors sound like Los Angeles television most of the time. Conversational sound levels were consistently clear.Acting: 6/10 I've seen much worse.Screenplay: 5/10 This was pretty thin. Perhaps the kids might have set a date and a time and a place to meet the author first? That's too much to ask, I guess. The lack of affect by the locals could have used better exposition. Of course, this helps the "by the time you figure it out, it's too late" feeling of helplessness.

nightwatch4773 Wow lots of horrible reviews for this one so I had to weight in on it as the defendant. First of all backwoods and films about exorcism really have no chance to be great with those two dark ominous clouds hanging over their respectable heads in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Exorcist. You make a backwoods film like TCM and people say you ripped it off . You make one completely different than TCM and people complain. I feel Madison County was a great little addition to our backwoods sub-genre. Come on people what makes these films good is the usual formula. Kids meet.....kids stop at creepy gas station......kids meet creepy locals.......kids are warned to stay out of the woods......kids don't listen......mayhem ensues.... Simple as that and if the acting is descent you will have a good little picture. Now Madison County is no masterpiece but it does have a great looking villain that is creepy. The gore is mostly left to the imagination...Hello original TCM and it is tightly packed into 80 or so minutes so it doesn't overstay its welcome. Please if you haven't seen this, ignore the horrible reviews crack open a beer or cider sit back and enjoy......and remember this is a step son to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and not the real deal. I'm out....................

GL84 Heading out to a small town in the country, a group of friends investigating a local legend of a vicious killer try to look past the spurned locals to get to the truth and find a more deadly version than they wanted.This turned out to be quite a decent slasher effort overall, although it does have some pretty big problems. The first one is that the film contains the all-too-familiar-and-irritating trope of having people with knowledge of what's going on purposefully keep it from those that would need such information to stay out of harm's way. Naturally, that would kill off the movie but in a realistic setting, it's ridiculous to continually feature such a proved irritating tactic. As well, for a slasher film this gets going pretty late in the storyline as there's a lot more time than expected dealing with the group and their individual romances that are built up a little too long before we get anywhere interesting. This is compounded by it's criminal lack of gore in it's killings, which are brutal in concept but criminally lacking in execution. That said, there's some fun to be had with it's back-half being loaded with all the stalking being done in a pretty creepy location, a rather imposing killer and his mask that make quite an impression, and a really intriguing mystery explored in the first half that make this one a lot better than it really could've been.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity and drug use.

hell_astateofmind Besides being mediocre, this film was a straight pile of crap. Kitchen knives with double-sided blades, shovels as a main murder weapon, and a whole damn town in on a murderous conspiracy? WTH. Oh, and what the hell kind of undergraduate major writes a thesis about a pseudo-nonfiction book and the town it concerns? Is that for the Bachelor's of Science in Utter Crap? The idea for this movie had a great deal of potential, but it was poorly realized and executed.Also, guns. This is America, there are plenty of people exercising their 2nd amendment rights, so how is it that there is an entire town of people without a. single. freaking. gun.?!