The Village: Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Seen In My Life

Rating: 2/10 (13 January 2005)

This movie was pitched in theaters to be a great thriller/suspense type movie. I went to see it with my husband and we literally asked for our money back it was so dumb. What a waste of screen and a biproduct of today's public education. For those of you who have not seen this movie I can sum it up for you here: 1700's village just on the edge of a woods. People are terrified of these creatures and the color red which supposedly attracts them. The village elders are the creatures who dress up in these ridiculous costumes they made to continue a hoax on the village for control of peoples minds and actions using fear. When Lucius (character in movie) is stabbed by a lunitic mental in the village named Noah, a blind girl goes to the town on the other side of the woods for help. Turns out these villagers have been living for years in a private wildlife preserve because someone in each of their families died and they can't handle the grief so they isolate themselves from society to live in the 1700's style and use these creatures to symbolize their fear of death and harm, thus controlling the fears and behavior of others.
This is the STUPIDEST most unimaginative piece of cinema I have ever seen. It rates up there with the sixth sense which was also a stupid movie, howbeit more interesting to watch for suspense factor than this one.