Has anyone seen this movie? I caught a little of it, and it looks like it is either really scary or so incredibly stupid that it is funny. I mean, I think I saw one of the creatures in a red kerchief with feathers sticking out of its backside?

Signs scared the bejeepers out of me, but then I am terrified of aliens so it only stands to reason. Same director, no?

If it's the same movie I'm thinking about, it played itself as being scary, but the end was a total letdown.

A small village set in the past, where an illness forced them to go beyond the limits where "evil creatures" lurked.

I won't ruin it, but I felt ripped off with the ending.

What Lies Beneath - now THAT was a scary movie!

The scariest movie for me, by far is still the Exorcist!

I remember watching it in my parent's basement when I was home from college. I ran up the stairs, turned the light on, ran back to turn off the other one, and repeated this until I got to my bed.

Don't know what the light would do to ward off the evil demons, but I'm still hear to talk about it.

I refuse to watch it. Or The Amityville Horror. Or Poltergeist. I had a hard enough time with the kid in the window in Three Men and a Baby!

Any M. Moore movie has got to scare the crap out of you. Some people think they are documentaries. That's even scarier.

After that, the next scariest movies are gili and alphie.

Even though the ending of the Village is bad it's an intresting movie. One i liked, (But my taste is bizzare),was Ginger Snaps Back to the Beginning. Decent if you like Werewolves.

'The Village' was made by the same guy (Night Shyamalan) who directed 'Signs' starring Mel Gibson, 'The Sixth Sense' starring Bruce Willis, and 'Unbreakable,' also starring Willis & Samuel L. Jackson.

Unbreakable & The Sixth Sense were interesting to me, especially Unbreakable (if you haven't seen this dark, bizarre film, rent it). Signs, however, was stupid in many ways (why didn't they just shoot the GD aliens with guns?), although it did attempt to explore, in Hitchcockian style, fear and anxiety without actually showing graphic gore.

Anyway, The Village ues the same Hitchcockian devices of creating stress & fear with the musical score or actors' expressions, rathar than gore. Shyamalan experiments with pure symbolism. The problem is the plot's dumb, and all the great camara work, cast, and suspense can't overcome it.

Just from memory, here's the plot: A group of people have become isolated in a wooded area near a semi-urban (suburban?) center. They live like the Amish, in a very backwards way. There is a legend that one is not supposed to go into the woods, to keep some force happy, so it won't kill you. That force is designed by the community (the force is really the village idiot. sound familiar? sure it does)to keep people in line; the ecrecy is designed to keep others out. Apparently the village elders deemed long ago that the outside world is bad, so fear is used to keep the community in line (sound familiar? sure it ... nevermind).

On the one hand, it's a dumb assed movie. On the other hand, Shyamalan uses suspense and enthymeme to the extreme, exploiting psychological extremes. Too bad the plot wasn't a bit more compelling.

Hopefully this Indian born, American educated director will put out more disturbing, symbolic, and Hitchcockian works; but like Quentin Tarantino & Spike Lee, he's currently in a downward spiral IMO.

Interesting attempt; lame result.

Signs put me to sleep.

I don't think I've ever seen an Alfred Hitchcock film that kept me on edge. My mom, however, is still terrified of birds to this day. I think what makes a movie scary is not what it is about but what YOU are about. I can watch any slasher/thrasher/crasher movie and yawn. I thought The Shining was one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen. I've had nightmares about people with faces that only had eyes since I was a little girl, and so the steriotypical alien face scares me in the right situation. Signs didn't bother me one iota until the aliens became visible. I think The Village will probably make me giggle, because that "creature" looked like it had a turkey sticking out from under its caftain.

Oh fiddlesticks!!! I thought this was a thread about The Village Voice, The Village in NYC, or the Village People.

:'(

It takes a Village to raise a monster.

JonR

Think "Blair Witch Project" without the levity of the map scene.

Who is number 1? You are number 6.

Who is number 1? I am number 2.

Where am I? you are in the village.

I am not a number... I am a free man.

M Night Shyamalan's movies utilize the belief that there are no coincidences. Everything happens for a reason. Every event spawns the next..the next..and so on.

That's why I like them and that's why I especially liked Signs. That movie is not so much about aliens as it is about life handing us small bits of information that will be required of us later. No conincedences...reasons.

Just my .02cents...if you watch his movies with that in mind i think you'll catch a lot. He's very bright...and also likes to take us on a thrilling ride along the way.

Brando

i READ birds before i saw it...it was a scary read. hitchcock was the master. he keeps me on edge--sometimes, intrigued--always!

The Village - Bad

Wolf Creek - Worse

The Devil's rejects - Oh yea baby

I thought the Village was interesting. Don't go into it thinking it is a scary movie and I think you will enjoy it. It gives you things to think about. Everything in the movie ties to one type of idealism:

Society kept in check and controlled by fear, Fear invoked by a few.

The idea that the rest of the world is evil

The walls and fence

The color RED

I liked it..........they didn't promote it properly IMHO though.

like a lot of movies, i listened to everybody and expected this movie to be total crap. then i dug deep inside of me & thought "hmmm, i've actually liked EVERY M. Night Shamalamadinding movie i've seen"-

because of all the negativity i heard about i ended up thinking the village was GREAT! yup i said GREAT. but now i probably ruined it for YOU.

a friend told me this would have made a good twilight zone. true- but if you're into dialogue and unexpected twists- rent it-

nine

Brando, I don't believe in coincidences, either. Maybe that is why I enjoyed signs so much, even after the aliens were visible!