I didn't expect blood and gore, but....

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2004)

(WARNING-SPOILERS!!!) My main reason for seeing this movie was Signs; which was brilliant. I was never under the impression that M. Night Shymalan would produce a slash and gore movie under any circumstance. I was in the mood for a period piece with a suspenseful plot.
I had heard that there was a "twist" in The Village so I found myself "glued" to the screen absorbing every little useless fact, such as:
-The empty Rocking Chair on the front porch. -Several empty chairs. -The Quiet Room. -The BAD Color. -The SAFE Color. -Ivy Walker can see "a man's color"... -Everyone has these strange boxes. -Dead animals are found with no fur or feathers. -The reference to "quarts of blood"... -A blind girl. -A Village Idiot. -The burial behind a fence away from the other people.
there are probably other things that I can't think of right now, and the concept of a horror movie that really isn't a horror movie is interesting,( because inspite of everything that's what it is, the joke is on us) but I was disappointed, I wanted to be scared. I wanted there to be a deeper meaning, a harder puzzle to solve.
One thing that I didn't notice was--No old people, beside the elders, meaning a missing generation. However, when I saw the impasse at the end of the "Hidden Road', I immediately thought of the movie Being There.

The Village has a few brief moments, but it falls very short of what I was expecting.