DVD review (region 2)
Directed by Peter Stanley-Ward
Starring Chris R. Wright, Dan Palmer, Warwick Davis, Hannah Flint
Release date 23 June 2008

The peasants are revolting! No, really! When a selection of outsiders stumble across Grockleton they run into the notorious ‘Small Town Folk’…

If Small Town Folk looks like it cost less than five grand to make and was edited in someone’s bedroom that’s because, well, it was! The film took over four years to make and features a brief turn from Warwick Davis, who looks unnervingly like a tiny Tom Waits.

Small Town Folk is a guilty pleasure at best. The effects are obviously cheap, the dialogue is dire and the soundtrack is slightly maddening. However, you can’t help but appreciate the passion these guys bring to the film – a nod to the opening shot of Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the odd Star Wars reference, as well as good old horror movie staples: running through fields of corn, masked freaks (who knew Slipknot were available for film?) and, of course, lots of sharp farming implements.

The underlying subtext of the film would seem to be that when faced with mortal danger, kick your opponent in the testicles. And stay out of the countryside! Den Patrick

VERDICT: 4/10
An unashamedly low budget horror that looks like a mentalist Jackanory.