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After an old
church burns down, a scourge (a small
creature) is set free to feast on the locals in a
small town. Travelling from body to body leaving its
previous host dead, there seems to be no way of
stopping the evil scourge. Scott and Jesse however
have no plans of letting it multiply and will do
whatever they can to make sure that this thing is
stopped once and for all.
A lot of horror movies about creatures going from
host to host these days huh? Yeah, Scourge definitely
isn't very original. It's a sci-fi horror mash-up
of Decoys and Splinter. Now, Splinter wasn't released
at the time when they started shooting this but
there are several other horror movies with a similar
topic out there. The budget of $1,5 million seems
to have been spent on CGI effects mainly and even
though the creature is nicely done, it's not a very
innovative-looking creature. It looks like any other
Sci-Fi channel original alien creature.
Scourge takes place in a small town where Scott and
Jesse live, two high school sweethearts whose love
for each other ended when Scott was sent to prison
on false accounts. Meanwhile, a deadly creature called
The Scourge has been unleashed upon the town and it
seems as if Jesse and Scott are the only ones aware
of what's really going on. But how can they stop
the creature before it multiplies?
You know, you can't really expect much from a movie
like Scourge. I mean, it's written and directed by
the same guy who brought us the mediocre horror
flicks Sasquatch (aka The Untold) and Ripper 2:
Letter From Within. Scourge is a step in the right
direction though but Jonas Quastel still has a long
way to go as his inexperience as a director still
shines through. For some people it comes naturally
and for others it doesn't and considering that the
movie had a $1,5 million budget, it should have
looked better than it did. There are no interesting
angles, no new point of view, it's all very basic
directing 101. The cast isn't anything to brag about
either exactly.
While newcomer Robyn Ledoux (who looks a lot like
Jaimie Alexander) does a decent job even though
you can tell that it's her first feature movie,
Nic Rhind seems horribly miscast. This guy is
also a newbie but doesn't do as good of a job hiding
it as Robyn. It probably wasn't easy to play their
characters convincingly either since the characters
in the movie are so cardboard and flat. I don't want
to be too hard on the movie though as Scourge is a
pretty decent timewaster. It's not a theatrical movie
(even though it's apparently getting the theatrical
treatment in Canada) but as a direct-to-TV flick it's
pretty amusing and worth checking out.
Like I said before, you can't expect a lot out of a
movie like Scourge but Scourge delivers what it
promises and then some. It won't blow anyone away
and it's certainly not very original but it's
a surprisingly entertaining horror movie and if
you've got nothing better to do you may as well give
it a chance - maybe you'll like it even more than I did.
A jaw ripped off and some bloody faces.
Pretty decent teen-score with competent rock music
and suspense music that what it's intended to do.
Scourge is... well, it is what it is - a sci-fi horror
flick about a creature going from body to body. It's
not exactly brain surgery is it? The concept is okay,
the CGI-effects are okay, the directing is okay. In
other words, it's a good timewaster but not something
you'd want to see in the cinema.
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