It was a bust

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

The opening was way too long, then the main plot was plodding, pedantic and predictable (as in "The Sixth Sense" predictable) far too slow. A third of the movie could have been edited out and it still would have made sense. Over all it had poor logical follow through.
If one stops to think about it what they did to their children, they would have been in prison for.
Such as letting ones child (in the opening) die from something that was preventable, the parent would have been prosecuted for.
We have an "Ends justifies the means" theme going on.
Letting the character "Noah", were proper medication could have helped with his Autism (you may well ask how do I know, I have a cousin, that is Autistic and she exhibits the same symptoms wavy hands, hers is controlled through drugs). Again the parents would have been prosecuted.
Sending a blind girl to do the work, instead of one of the elders that knows what is going on and could have done safer and come into contact with the creatures and survived.
1897, they had telephones, why not have one in the village just for the purpose of emergencies?
The other part is; One day ignorance comes enlightenment, one of the offspring would be sure to find out and then become highly ticked over having the wool pulled over their eyes.
I could go on and on about the holes in the plot. I am just glad that I did not have to pay to view the movie. Do not get me wrong when a movie is good, I will state so.