My kind of scary village

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2005)

I agree with Baba from Zambia. I really, really liked that movie. I must admit tho I HATED "the 6th sense". I found it tiresome and predictable. In other words I saw it coming from the first reel, and you can imagine how peed off I felt by the time it crawled towards the denouement. The Village though never set out to be a scary movie - in my books- but works well as tender, elegiac mystery story..a beautiful psychological thriller. I loved the acting, the atmosphere, which was well sustained, the meta-dialogue, the costumes, and even the gentle and still believable conceit - billionaire creates make believe world because etc.
Baba you hit the nail on the head when you say its the horror fans who are disappointed. Well that's the curse of genre cinema - dash the audience's cosy preconception and they want to slit your throat.