SunnyHello Nice effects though.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Woodyanders Three travelers -- amiable Jon (a solid and likable turn by Greg Martin), his plucky pregnant wife Susan (a winningly spunky portrayal by the fetching Hannah Flint), and crafty and resourceful teenager Marcus (an excellent and engaging performance by Simon Stanley-Ward) -- find themselves trapped in the remote rural community of Grockleton, where the evil The Landlord (marvelously essayed with lip-smacking sinister relish by Chris R. Wright) forces them to participate in a brutal hunt with the deranged local yokels. Director Peter Stanley-Ward, who also co-wrote the pleasingly loopy and tongue-in-cheek script with Natalie Conway, treats the familiar premise like a dark contemporary fairytale, ably creates and sustains a playfully creepy atmosphere, delivers a handy helping of grisly gore, and further spices things up with a wickedly funny sense of hysterically gonzo pitch-black humor. Better still, Stanley-Ward allows a deliciously dry, droll, and utterly idiosyncratic deadpan English wit to run gloriously amok throughout, thus not only giving this movie an extra substantial nutty buzz, but also providing a peculiar distinction that ensures that this sure ain't your run-of-the-mill killer hicks in the sticks flick. The redneck psychos are a colorfully grotesque bunch: Dan Palmer as infantile, gas-guzzling geek Dobbin, Jan Nicholas as the gruff Pooch, and Ben Richards as monstrous hulking freak Pike. Warwick Davis has a neat small part as the foreboding Knackerman #2. Peter Stanley-Ward's gaudy cinematography makes funky use of green screen and gives the film a gnarly stylized look. Good twisted fun.

Paul Andrews Small Town Folk is set in England where Jon (Greg Martin) & his wife Susan (Hannah Flint) are driving along on an 'adventure' (this is as much as the film can be bothered to specify or come up with) & come across an area called Grockleton, they quickly become lost & head for Beesley's Manor to ask for a room for the night. It quickly turns out that the landlord (Chris R. Wright) & his brother's are all inbred freaks who like to murder anyone who ends up in Grockleton, obviously Jon & Susan decide leaving is the best course of action but with all the petrol syphoned out of their jeep they don't make it very far. With the inbred mutants right behind them Jon manages to escape but Susan is kidnapped for breeding purposes so the family line of freaks can continue. It's up to Jon to save Susan but he has to come up with a plan first...This seemingly home-made amateur British production was edited, written, co-produced & directed by Peter Stanley-Ward who also played one of the Scarecrow brother things the same few names keep popping up during the opening & closing credits signifying that a small group of people did multiple jobs to get the thing finished, apparently filmed over a period of four years on a budget of about £4000 which was totally funded by cast & crew you have to admire their determination & commitment but that doesn't guarantee a good film & doesn't mean I want to see any old crap they end up with & certainly doesn't mean they or this rubbishy film is exempt from criticism. First of all the script is just various ideas & themes culled from other much better horror films, it appears that the makers wanted to make a backwoods horror film in the style of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) & Wrong Turn (2003) but only set in England rather than the US & it fails horribly on every count. For a start I assume that the supposed attempts at comedy were intentional but even if they were they are just not funny in the slightest (a crossbow that fires Horse shoes?), the horror is lame with nothing more than the usual slightly mutated dirty freaks chasing a couple of people through some sort of isolated location , there's zero atmosphere or tension as it looks like it was filmed in about three fields (how can you just run into someone who wants to kill you in the middle of an open field exactly?) & the plot is as thin as any film I have watched. Basically a group of killers want to kill a guy & use his wife for breeding purposes (why didn't they use any of the other two young pretty girls killed earlier on?) & that's it, no that really is it as there are no sub-plots or diversions away from this one single plot thread. Boring is the word I would describe Small Town Folk, even at just over 80 minutes it feels like a lot longer & the dialogue is terrible, the character's barely say anything let alone get anything approaching character development & the whole reason Jon & Susan are there in the first place is because they wanted an adventure, yeah right that makes sense.As often mentioned it seems that Small Town Folk was shot largely against a green-screen & really fake comic book style backgrounds were added in post production & although distinctive it's also distracting & really cheap looking. Apparently Small Town Folk started out as a short feature but grew into a full film & I wonder if the scenes with Jon & Susan (a lot of their scenes are green-screen) were added to bump the time up as the scenes with them & Marcus look & feel different & I am thinking that maybe director Ward started filming with his brother but then expanded things later on. The gore is tame, there's some blood splatter, a few sickles through people's bodies, a stabbing & a decapitation but nothing memorable & the effects are pretty poor. There's no nudity either. The climax seems to rip-off Indiana Jones but with less than a tenth of the excitement (how can Small Town Folk & Indiana Jones get mentioned in the same review?).Shot here in Hampshire (I've been there...) in the UK the production values are rock bottom with poor effects, bad cinematography (overlit scenes, out of focus scenes...) & a really raw amateur look & feel about the whole thing. The acting is uniformly bad & is Jon really meant to be that laid back or is it simply actor Greg Martin doesn't do emotion of any kind?Small Town Folk looks like it was an achievement to get made by a group of dedicated & enthusiastic friends but that doesn't meant I want to watch it or want to spend my money on it, lots of films have been made this way before (The Evil Dead (1982), Bad Taste (1987)) & not been this bad. Nice DVD cover, horrible film inside.

movieman_kev Jon and Susan are on their way to a holiday vacation when they get lost and find themselves in the small town of Grockleton despite two peculiar brothers the couple stops to ask directions from warn them against it. While there, the Beesley clan led by the sinister Landlord wish to keep the family name going, but they need a female to accomplish that. Enter the hapless couple who decide to spend the night at Beesley Manor on the hill. Elsewhere, Marcus (teased with the nickname helmet because of the ever-present helmet on his head) seeks out to become an unlikely hero. Oh yeah and the Beesley's also kill guy and kidnap any woman who dares set foot on their land in this low-budget horror/comedy/fantasy film.The film is slightly likable enough if it's story is fairly generic, but the humor, which is of the hit or miss variety, is slightly more of the latter. Many of the people involved with the earlier and better "Freak Out" are involved in this one, i'd recommend you seek out that film instead as it's more fully realized and funnier. Although this one does have it's moments as well, as few and far between as those might be. Further the sheer abundance of green-screen in the movie became a tad of an eyesore before too long.My Grade: C- DVD Extras: Commentary by cast & crew; 'Folk Tales' a making-of featurette with bonus music video (30 minutes); and trailers for Kitchen Privileges, Ghost Son, Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror, & Blood Ranch

barton-company This film is a delightful low bedget fest which looks as though a load of mates got together to make it which is what more people should do-the plot I add is virtually a no brainer-but I loved the really echoey sound of the dwarf as he clambered the shoulders outside-for a moment I thought do you sound echoey in the West country? and I loved the bit in the pig shed with the dark whatever he was. When I saw how they did it in the extras I was impressed. One of the cast took time out to write to me-good egg-, the scenery lush, the mixing up of time of day scenes to cherish with a smile-this may be a cult movie in a few years time, its so bad, at the same time its lovable for the sheer effort inolved in putting it together.