The Plague uses horror tropes and an incredibly powerful score to tell a story about the cruelty of adolescent boys. It's a movie that leaves you with a lot to think about and it's carried by some incredible performances by it's leads.

I bought this on Blu-ray for my October 31 film marathon but then realised I watched it previous year so kept it to one side.

Anyways, I watched this again last night and it's still great. The effects have aged poorly and some of the dialogue is on the nose (but this being a Kevin Williamson film I assume it's a little tongue in cheek.) It's a 90's reimagining of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers that takes the isolation most people already feel in high school and dials it up to 11.

An absolutely stacked cast of great actors and an interesting premise bogged down by a lot of terminology and acronyms that leave you feeling a little lost.

It's difficult to make a film like this because you have to tow the line between incredibly dull "people talking in rooms" and over the top Roland Emmerich style disaster movie. Unfortunately A House of Dynamite doesn't quite stick the landing.

I think I might have had a more entertaining time watching Ice Cube's War of the worlds.

I'm really glad that years after it's initial release this film is getting it's flowers.
I get that at the time people wanted more a Michael Myers and might have felt cheated by this folk horror about haunted masks but I absolutely love it.
Imagine a world where instead of a series of Myers sequels with diminishing returns we got a different story every couple of years all set at Halloween.
This feels authentically autumnal, the plot is Bananas it's got some great performances and that ending is bleak as fuck!