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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Salesrank: 9368
Released: January 11, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
M. Night Shyamalan (SIGNS, UNBREAKABLE, THE SIXTH SENSE), the director who brought you the world's greatest thrillers on DVD, now creates his most thought-provoking triumph yet ... breaking international records and dazzling audiences around the globe! THE VILLAGE is a smart, edge-of-your-seat chiller crawling with terrifying surprises and frightening twists and turns. An isolated, tight-knit community lives in mortal fear of an oppressive evil inhabiting the forbidden forest just beyond their tiny village. So frightening that no one ventures into the woods ... until one villager dares to face the unknown. With unforgettable performances from Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Adrien Brody, and newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard, this powerful motion picture is one of Hollywood's best psychological thrillers and ranks with the best of Hitchcock!
Description of The Village (Widescreen Vista Series):
Even when his trademark twist-ending formula wears worrisomely thin as it does in The Village, M. Night Shyamalan is a true showman who knows how to serve up a spookfest. He's derailed this time by a howler of a "surprise" lifted almost directly from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Cliff Robertson that originally aired in 1961. Even if you're unfamiliar with that Rod Serling scenario, you'll have a good chance of guessing the surprise, which ranks well below The Sixth Sense and Signs on Shyamalan's shock-o-meter. That leaves you to appreciate Shyamalan's proven strengths, including a sharp eye for fear-laden compositions, a general sense of unease, delicate handling of fine actors (alas, most of them wasted here, save for Bryce Dallas Howard in a promising debut), and the cautious concealment of his ruse, which in this case involves a 19th-century village that maintains an anxious truce with dreadful creatures that live in the forbidden woods nearby. Will any of this take anyone by genuine surprise? That seems unlikely, since Emperor Shyamalan has clearly lost his clothes in The Village, but it's nice to have him around to scare us, even if he doesn't always succeed. --Jeff Shannon
The Village (Widescreen Vista Series) Reviews:
CS 
2009-11-11 - Great customer service. Very pleasant experience. I will definitely do business with them again.
You'll Feel Cheated 
2009-11-08 - M. Night Shyamalan, you're no Alfred Hitchcock and after an interesting start this film pulls out the rug from under you and what seemed like the making of a good horror film is simply a dodge for pretty ordinary doings. I swore off this guy's movies after this one. Fool me once shame on you ...
might have been okay with better dialogue, hard to believe as is
2009-10-30 - This is the monster movie that wasn't. And why can't they talk like normal people. I had a hard time staying awake.
Interesting story, beautifully written and acted 
2009-10-22 - This is one of those rare movies that is well written, acted, and beautifully portrayed. It holds your interest throughout. The music ties it all together perfectly. I highly recommend it.
A Great Tale
2009-10-19 - My family really enjoyed this movie. It's NOT a horror film, not even really a suspense flick - and yes - you can see the ending from a mile away. I had sort of figured it out about halfway through the movie and by the time the last half hour came along it had all been exposed and I was just waiting for the story to wrap up. Shyamlan's stories a meant to make your mind WORK - so if you're looking for senseless terror this is not the movie for you. If you want to pause and think 'what if' you will probably enjoy it.
I felt that the film was rather lush in it's portrayal of the village - the camera work was great and the actors did an excellent job.
