FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

BA_Harrison A group of college friends travel to hillbilly country ("we don't get many strangers around here") to interview an author for a thesis about a legendary local serial killer. Guess what happens next…From the very opening scene in which the soon-to-be-dead teens load up their car for a few days of camping in the wilderness, Madison County is in very familiar territory, but still manages to be reasonably entertaining for a while thanks to the initially likable characters. Unfortunately, the film spends waaaaay too long getting to the horror—almost 45 minutes go by where very little happens—after which our unfortunate campers appear to abandon brains and start acting like total morons.Despite hostility from the locals, including an encounter with a knife-wielding redneck outside a diner, they leave the safety of the group to wander around the woods by themselves, practically inviting the resident pig-mask wearing maniac to slaughter them. To make matters worse, the kids throw away every opportunity to finish off the killer, preferring to momentarily incapacitate him and make a run for it—and they never, ever look over their shoulders. Watching characters this stupid soon becomes tiresome in the extreme, and any sympathy towards them goes right out the window.Towards the end of the film, writer/director Eric England tries to inject a little originality into proceedings with a plot twist involving the mysterious author, but the execution is ham-fisted to say the least, and not in the least bit plausible. An abrupt shock ending fails to improve matters, leaving the viewer pondering whether the film-makers had to return their equipment in a hurry.On an ever-so-slightly more positive note, the acting is reasonable, with the exception of Adrienne Harrell, who severely lets the side down with her dreadful performance as suspicious old bag Erma, the kills are fairly brutal, the cinematography is above average for such fare, and we even get a spot of gratuitous female nudity (although NOT from the film's attractive female leads, Joanna Sotomura and Natalie Scheetz, who remain clothed throughout) in a ridiculous scene that suggests that the locals are in cahoots with the killer.

bowmanblue When will American college students ever learn? All they seem to do is constantly drive off to remote towns in the mid-west in groups of four or five and get killed.The five of this batch of kids has obviously never seen a slasher film (as perhaps has the writer, otherwise he might realise how 'borrowed' every element of this movie actually is) as they stop at an out-of-the-way diner where every snaggle-toothed yokel stares at them menacingly. They pay for food, but never eat (I didn't get that bit!) then leave, only to be threatened by another knife-wielding nut-job.So, what do they do? All decide to split up. No sooner does this happen than a psycho in a pig mask hunts them down one by one as they run, screaming through the woods in random directions. Sometimes one of the teenagers manages to fight back and knock out the killer, but they never bother finishing him off - only knocking him to the floor so he gets straight back up to chase them down again. Oh, and they never bother finding or keeping a weapon.What you have here is nothing you haven't seen a hundred times before in the slasher genre. The only way this film would be any good is if you invented a time machine, sent it back to the early seventies and showed it to people then. Therefore, Madison County would be the 'film that started it all' and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre would just be a poor imitation. Sadly, in the real world, it's the other way around.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

CJ Do YOU like disjointed, nonsensical films where the characters behave stupidly and unrealistically, where the "plot" is an excuse for some highly unimaginative killings of tedious bad actors whom you won't care to root for, and which end abruptly without any sense of closure? Well, then, Madison County may just be for you! Even by slasher movie standards, this is extremely weak. When the end credits popped up, I strongly felt that the word "written" in "Written and Directed by" should have been in heavy quote marks, as the script and continuity feel quite haphazard.Low budget horror can be more inventive and interesting than its A-list counterparts, or it can be ... well, this.

jcs_vh1 Madison county is Maybe one of the best slasher films in awhile.it has great characters,great acting and some fairly violent death scenes.the first 50 minutes of the movie is spent on character development and the kids trying to figure out where a famous author is,who wrote a book about a serial killer named Damien Ewell.after the 40 or 50 minute mark,the first death happens.the deaths are pretty generic,nothing inventive or new.mostly just stabbings.though a few kills are pretty cool,such as one of the college kids getting a baseball bat shoved through his mouth or one guy getting enticed by two topless women before getting a knife to the stomach.the characters are pretty likable,with a few exceptions.by far my favorite was Jenna,she was sweet and strong.putting her own life in danger to save her friends.SPOILERS!It was so sad when she died,when her and Brooke are hiding and Damien is about to find Brooke,Jenna runs off to distract him.she manages to get the Axe from him and almost kills him,but he over powers her and he starts to mimic her screams as he hacks her to death with the Axe.The ending is pretty good too,but i wont spoil that.you'll have to watch the movie ;)