Village Idiot

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2005)

This film started out very creepy. the setup was great, but then they broke the #1 rule of scary: If you show the monster in broad-day-light it is no longer scary. Fury monsters are not scary to start with, let alone when we have already seen it in the sunshine. So from then on I didn't care about the characters or story at all. It just became annoying as it was all so obvious what was going to happen. Oh and my god why would they keep the costume under the floor in the room where they put the naughty people? Is that the safest place they could think of in a whole village? By the end we were all just groaning at the lame plot and hoped it would all end quickly. the twist in sixth sense worked because it was a surprise, this one did not work because they spoiled the surprise by showing the sesame street monster.
So to sum up: Great start, Bad middle and Disgusting pointless end.
I do feel for M. Night Shyamalan though, as his early film Sixth Sense was so brilliant, it will be almost impossible to top it.