Two low-budget films:
“Monsters” –- made by “Godzilla” director Gareth Edwards -– and “Blair Witch
Project”— the found-footage creep-out that launched a genre. Tightly edited. Tense
scenes made sharp with glimpses of the unearthly. Finales that leave emotions raw.
Similarly budgeted horror-thriller “The Secret Village” has … none of that, not
an ounce of ballast to carry its Midnight Movie plot. Here, a young journalist
(Ali Faulkner) arrives in a New England town to investigate numerous deaths
reaching back to the Salem Witch Trials. Townsfolk are hostel: Leave or die.
She is stalked. All along, something is off deep inside her. Sounds intriguing?
No. Director Swamy Kandan has made a film so direly boring and incomprehensibly
edited, I was left admiring home architecture and the bed comforters. Kandan has other film credits. Guessing on his
go-to scare tactic, they must all feature chubby old men in robes. F
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