Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Payno
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Aspen Orson
There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.
trashgang
When a bunch of kids go out to Madison County to visit an author of a book being based on a true story they are rather surprised that nobody ever heard of the writer but slowly the town reveals it's secrets. The soon discover that the urban legend is becoming true.Looks all promising and maybe you have heard it all before but this could have been a great slasher. sadly it doesn't become what it could have been. It's very simple to explain why. It takes halfway into the flick before something really happens. And when it happens it isn't even gory or bloody. It's sad because this flick do had all elements to make it great. A good opening, some gratuitous nudity and a bunch of kids going to be killed. But it moves so slow and after a while you get the typical slasher clichés that it becomes rather predictable. For example, the diner were everybody is looking to the kids entering, the warning made by one of the town. The old lady at the diner. Due all those things it became a lame horror. It's ideal for a starter of a scary evening but that's all.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
average_girl88
Madison County was slow. It gets good for about a half an hour, and then ends, leaving you with a big "?". Even the most easy-going viewer will walk away from this movie saying wtf. . .not in a good way. I have no issue's with the theme of the movie. It's a backwoods slasher flick, and if you wanted to see something else, you shouldn't have watched a backwoods slasher flick. I don't think the makers of this movie were trying to fool anyone into thinking it was anything more than that. The problem, is that the movie doesn't have an ending. The "end" doesn't answer a single question you have going into it, and actually adds a few extra for good measure.*Spoiler-ish* I'm not saying there's anything wrong with leaving your bad-guy alive at the end of the movie. That's a solid way to leave the viewer thinking about the movie after it ends, and sleeping with the lights on for a day or two. But consider Saw (completely different type of movie, but i'm using it as an example). Jigsaw stays alive at the end, killing off all the victims, and leaving his viewer terrified. He does, however, eventually show his real face, and explain his point, which makes him interesting.If you're going to watch the movie, just skip to the last 45 minutes, and expect there to not be an ending. It's about a group of young adults going into the middle of nowhere to meet the man who wrote the book on Damien, a serial killer who lives in Maddison County. When they get there, some of the townspeople claim that Damien doesn't exist, and the ones who admit that he does, are still of no help. If you read the last two sentences, you do not need to watch the first half of this movie. The movie is about an hour and 20 minutes long. It was a good idea, but needed some tweaking. Like, remove the entire middle half an hour from the movie, put the "end" where it belongs (in the middle...), and add an ending. Poof!! Good movie.
Scott LeBrun
Just as the market was glutted with slasher films during the initial wave of the sub genre in the early 1980s, now we're being inundated with many modern homages made by people who are big fans of those films. Unfortunately, with some of these films we're not getting anything we haven't seen many times before. And "Madison County" is one of those films. It's underwhelming, even boring, with fairly likable but extremely unmemorable characters, a sorry screenplay, and, worst of all, unimaginative set pieces. The story has a young man named James (Colley Bailey) working on a thesis and travelling to redneck country to interview an author with whom he's been in contact. The author had written a true crime book about murders in his neck of the woods, and, what do you know, the killer is still alive and well and intending to do some serious damage. About the only good thing I can say is that Robert Halls' Almost Human company does well with the gore; very undemanding fans of this sort of thing will enjoy the brutality. The pig mask that our killer Damien (Nick Principe) wears is also good for a mild chuckle. Writer / director Eric England spends quite a bit of time establishing situation and character, which is fine and good, except that the action, when it comes, isn't worth that much set-up. This thing only runs 82 minutes, and in all honesty it might have worked better in an even shorter format. The acting is not so hot from all concerned, although to be fair they don't have particularly good dialogue to recite. The girls are attractive, and it might have helped if they'd shown a bit more skin. All things considered, I could only recommend this if you just CAN'T get enough of rural horror. It's poor stuff, all the way until its unsatisfactory ending. Four out of 10.
tequila101
Madison County is a straight up slasher which doesn't bother to act like any other horror which has come out before or after. Yes, I do feel that it was quite tedious and boring and that it was like many other films I have seen, especially naming "The Friday the 13th" and "Wrong Turn" franchises since the majority of both series were set in the backwoods of an isolated area. This film was OK, but I was surprised that I didn't end up hating it by the end. I had seen many slasher films which came out in the same year as Madison County or films after it (naming this year). This specifically included "The Orphan Killer" and "Wrong Turn 5" since I was disappointed with those films.I don't have much to say about this film but I'll do the best I can: I thought the music score was average to decent but when the chasing scenes were presented the music lost it's momentum. The characters were pretty typical. I knew what decisions they were going to make, who was more sensible and then those who would sacrifice everything for the murders. Daminan actually looked good in the pig mask. Nice and creepy. I had imagined he was going to be a more bulkier, brutal looking Leatherface looka like, but instead the creators made it their own, so thumbs up for that. The kills to be honest, were actually good for once in a modern slasher film. This film knew it's limits when it came to showing how much violence and gore they would present. I seriously thought this would've been more violent. The whole aspect of the townsfolk not knowing anything was quite lame as I had seen this already in other films such as "The Wickerman!" Anyhow, it didn't annoy me too much. I also didn't like the conclusion to for this film - could've developed that so much more!Overall this film was boring/decent. It's not scary or memorable in any way but I'll admit, I thought the outcome of the entire film could have been worse. I seriously had no expectations, thinking it would be like "Seed" which I hated. Anyhow, it's an alright horror film which has it's decent and boring moments. I didn't have any high expectations for this film anyway. 6/10
