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STUDIO: Lions Gate
MSRP: $26.98
RATED: R
RUNNING TIME: 92 Minutes
SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Trailer Gallery

The Pitch

"Watching a dog shit would be more enjoyable."

The Humans

Cast: Adam Fogerty, Shelley Goldstein, Jason Barry, Vinnie Jones, Nora-Jane Noone
Director: Brendan Foley

The Nutshell

"When a 2000-year old mummified murder victim, a "bog body," is inadvertently disturbed he rises from the dead to wreak havoc on a local group of strangers who unwittingly share a guilty secret."


"Are you shitting me?" "I thought we were making the sequel to Thelma and Louise."

The Lowdown

How movies like this get released is beyond me! Sure the DVD cover looks interesting and the movie summary offers hope, but ten minutes into the movie one gets the feeling they have been suckered. Sure enough I've been had and not in a good way.

Legend of The Bog is set in Ireland and with this being a low-budget deal the amount of actors to stink up the screen is small. Thank goodness for minor miracles and that is the only kind thing I have to say about this film. The acting is laughable and there is nothing remotely scary about the Bog monster. In fact, the monster is the funniest part of this wretched mess and that would be well and good if this was a parody type movie but it is not.


"I am THE BOG MONSTER. SEE HOW SCARY I AM? NOW I NEED A HUG"


When the principle characters are dining in a restaurant and start putting each other down (I guess this was the part of the movie where we get character introductions) it would have been a blessing if they all turned to the camera and said "enough of this garbage, we're outta here". Instead the movie trudges along and after the professor begins talking about the Bog legend in comes, you guessed it, the Bog creature. This creature is a joke. That is the kindest description I can give because all there is to this creature is some make-up and him making mean faces. That's it. Oh, and the creature is bald. I can look at a bald guy making faces and growling at the local grocery store! Not something I want to see in a movie that is supposed to be a thriller. A comedy maybe.

I hate to crap on low budget movies but this movie is an exception to my policy. It is just bad all the way through with no redeeming qualities. The acting is horrid and the writing is sleep inducing. Watching movies should not be a chore but getting through this one became a test of endurance for me and I 'm one of the kinder reviewers on CHUD. I can only imagine what some of the other reviewers would have done with this crap.


Everyone involved in this movie had to offer up a body limb. The cinematographer was the first one to give.

The Package

A trailer gallery does not make for good viewing. Especially when said movies are on the same par as this one.

1.5 out of 10