Jug Face

2013

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 37% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 8443 8.4K

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Plot summary

When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.

Director

Chad Crawford Kinkle Photo
Chad Crawford Kinkle

Top cast

Sean Young Photo
Sean Young as Loriss
Larry Fessenden Photo
Larry Fessenden as Sustin
Sean Bridgers Photo
Sean Bridgers as Dawai
Jennifer Spriggs Photo
Jennifer Spriggs as Eilen
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694.63 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 2
1.23 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lathe-of-heaven 5 / 10

The reason why this well made film gets a '5' is because of the completely Dumb@ss ending. Plain and simple...

Yep, that's about it. After I finished watching the film and I came here to check out the rating, I was not surprised at all that it was a mere 5.2. And deservedly so...The great writer Charlie Kaufman in his brilliant film 'ADAPTATION' had the experienced filmmaker tell his character that 'Rule #1' in writing was to make sure to give the audience a 'Slam-Bang' ending. Well, this is precisely, in my lowly and wretched opinion, where the filmmakers here fell far short.The reason why this movie currently only has a '5.2' rating isn't because it wasn't made well. It isn't because it wasn't acted well, because the acting was superb. It wasn't because technically it wasn't down well, because the writing, direction, pacing, and above all 'Mood' was excellent. It it certainly wasn't because the story was poor; the idea was frigg'n BRILLIANT!The reason, as clearly stated in my title above is because of the ending. And, without giving too much away, I do not mind 'Dark' endings. I do not mind endings that might give you a shock. BUT... in my lowly and wretched opinion, one thing I feel that a director should never, NEVER do, is put the audience through such a grueling and fascinating and creative journey and then just end it with a completely pointless, and I mean POINTLESS letdown.Inexcusable...And, thus, the deserved 5.2 rating. IF, and I really mean this, IF the filmmakers had just given the bloody ending a BIT more thought so that the audience either felt rewarded for going through all that they had, or given it some kind of nice twist, or at least given us some irony, just bloody SOMETHING, ANYTHING instead of the paltry nothing, meaningless ending that in my opinion did absolutely NOTHING for the audience, I feel quite honestly that it would have been a truly great film. But, sadly, It simply didn't leave us with a feeling of satisfaction. It didn't leave us with a sense of Mystery. It didn't even leave us with a true sense of Horror. The audience is left sitting there going, 'Is that it...?' It just left us with a mindlessly STUPID non-ending that did nothing for us in any way at all...
Reviewed by Foxbarking 4 / 10

Mistakes a bad story for being deep.

One thing that annoys me more than anything in movies is that a movie with very little depth to the plot is hailed as being mysterious. From reading most the the reviews on "Jug Face," the consensus seems to be that not only is it a good movie, but that there are a lot of secrets hidden in the movie.This movie is pretty idiotic actually and those who claim it has re-watch value must have a completely different standard for movies than I do. The tale is completely nonsensical. Yes there are plenty of questions left unanswered, but this is not because the movie is deep and hard to understand. Questions are left unanswered because there are no answers to them. This movie paints a picture that is more like a child's finger painting than a Van Gogh.What you get is a story about a small community who worships a hole in the ground and routinely sacrifices one of its members to the pit. When you watch the first scene that shows this, you will likely believe that it is a ripoff of Shirley Jackson's legendary story "The Lottery." The townspeople gather around a pit and a potter brings a jug that was molded to match the face of one of the community members. That person immediately has his throat slit and the blood pours into the pit. The main character discovers that she is the next one to be sacrificed and goes long ways to prevent this. Because of this, more people are killed. You get to see a spirit from the pit show up and see Ada having all these idiotic hallucinations. The best part, however, is the wonderful townsfolk who know the sick stuff this community does and not only do they keep silent about it, they immediately turn Ada back over to them despite her informing them that her community was going to hurt her.This ending of this film will irritate than make them happy. Ada goes ahead and accepts her fate and dies. Rather than some wonderful moment occurring, she apologizes to a community about to murder her because other people were killed instead of her. She apologized to a bunch of dumb hillbillies who should have left the area where the pit is and refused to participate in the idiotic ritual. The lesson in this movie is do not protect yourself from being killed because if you do, the people that are trying to kill you will die. A truly worthless and stupid message from an equally worthless and stupid movie.
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