It’s hard to describe the film Madison County (2011) without
also describing a whole lot of other films just like it. A group of college kids travel to an old
mountain community called Madison County in search of the truth about a killer
based on the account of a writer from the town.
The moment they arrive they realize that the town is a place they would
rather keep their secrets secret as they have no idea who the writer the kids
are looking for is and they claim that there never were any killer or
murders. What they do get is a warning
to get out of town as soon as possible.
The group don’t heed the warning and upon further investigating
they soon come across a killer wearing a pig’s head who starts to knock them
off one by one (or capturing them for later).
There is a subplot involving the writer who has to bring sacrifices for
the pig killer but little really makes much sense in this film that strives to
give a little more plot to the tire “Wrong Turn” story yet never actually
accomplishing it. The death are pretty
gruesome and effective and the film is well filmed but there isn’t anything that
really differentiates it from the countless (and endless) Wrong Turn sequels
and its brethren. The characters are not
at all that interesting and neither is the killer for that matter. It’s a pretty dull affair from beginning to
end.
Written and directed by Eric England the film tries to bring
something new to the backwoods killer film but fails to deliver on the goods.
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