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Legend of the Bog
Assault of Darkness / Bog Bodies
Ireland 2009
produced by Peter Burrell, Joe Condren, Brendan Foley, Paul Valentine, John Valentine (executive) for Bog Body Films
directed by Brendan Foley
starring Vinnie Jones, Jason Barry, Nora-Jane Noone, Adam Fogerty, Gavin Kelty, Amy Huberman, Shelly Goldstein, Olga Wehrly, Michael Collins, Paul Valentine, Glen Barry, [Charlene Gleeson, Sheamus O'Shaunessy, Aran Condren, Sean Condren
written by Brendan Foley, music by Graham Slack
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A sextet of people - scientist David (Jason Barry) and his driver Saiorse (Nora-Jane Moore), cabbie Deano (Gavin Kelty)
and his fare, American land developer Val (Shelly Goldstein), backpack tourists Mallory (Olga Wehrly) and Hannah (Amy Huberman)
- all have accidents somewhere in the Irish bog, and as fate has it, they all find abode for the night at a seemingly abandoned hut.
But then the ower of the hut shows up, a hunter named Hunter (Vinnie Jones), and he is less than pleased about his guests,
but at the same time warns them to leave on their own, because there's something out there.
Of course, busy Val has no time for delays of this sort, and she and her cabbie soon try to make it back to civilisation on their own ...
and are brutally killed, because of course, there really is something out there, a bog body (Adam Fogerty) who just refuses to
stay dead - even though he has been so for the last 2000 years -, and now he
wants to have revenge on all those who have in some way
wronged the bog - and it turns out that each member of the motley crew has some story to tell in which he or she has accidently
killed somebody and hidden the body in the bog.
The next day, Hunter - who's actually on the hunt for living bog bodies - tries to lead the others to safety (= civilisation), but that only
leads to disaster and before you know it, Malory and Hannah are dead. While David and Saiorse now barricade them inside Hunter's hut,
Hunter sets up traps for the bog body and tries to hunt him down - but ends up staked to a tree right in front of his own hut - but before dying,
he can fill in David and Saiorse on how to kill the bog body for good: Lure him to the hut's shower (bog bodies are addicted to water), turn it on
and then set it on fire - which works only because Hunter was clever enough to fill the shower's watertank with gasoline.
And wouldn't you know it, the scheme really works, too ...
A rather weak attempt to make horror monsters out of the bog bodies, something not all that uncommon in Ireland. But despite the
amazing landscapes of the Irish bogs, the movie as a whole is a disappointment: For the most part the story seems to be rather indecisive
about which way to go (sometimes it even resembles a comedy) and it loses its
narrative threads every now and again, the characters are
mostly uninteresting in a cannonfodder sort of way, and
the bog body itself amounts to little more than a Tor Johnson-lookalike. Add to
this a lack of real suspense and you are left with rather little.
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