Jaysus! As an irish ex-pat I'm often asked the same questions by the natives of whatever land I am currently residing..."Can you put that away please" "What are you doing in my house""Is it in yet" etc. No one however has ever asked me why irish horror movies are so rubbish, and why would they, it's a retardedly random question that no normal person would concievably ask. But is it as retarded as such cinematic cowpats as Rawhead Rex, Dead Meat, Shrooms, Boy Eats Girl etc? Bail o dhia ar an obair, but they are all f**king awful. Does Plague Town buck this bog-trotting trend, or does it suck as badly as its predecessors? Well....yes and no. Yes it does suck, and no, it doesn't not suck.
There is definitely a rich seam of irish mythological lord of the rings-esque fantasy that is begging to be mined cinematically, but horror wise, well there only so much you can do with banshees, pookas and leprechauns. So in this case it's fairly bog standard mutant inbreds who pick off an cliched american family and a cheeky english lad who get stranded somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Eyeless babies, grisly gore sequences and a bizarre soundtrack keep the interest well enough, but the dialogue is cringworthy, the acting perfunctory at best and it's all a little crude and clumsy. At least at a mere 80 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome. Begorrah!
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