Bog Creatures
"After 1200 Years... They're Back!"
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
Five young adults venture into a bog to excavate some bodies. After a while they find that bodies that have been buried in the bog have risen from the dead and seek to pick them off one by one.
**_What happens when crazy Norse warriors are resurrected after 1200 years_**
Five American archeological students are invited to Denmark by a disreputable anthropologist to dig up the remains of a berserker clan of Vikings in bog near a castle. Things go awry when the bodies amazingly come to life.
“The Bog Creatures” (2003) is a low-budget creature feature costing around $75,000 (I’m guesstimating based on the cost of another one of the small studio’s productions from that time period). For such a miniscule budget, the story is rather ambitious and there’s some welcome droll humor amidst the life-or-death goings-on. The female cast is okay, but not exceptional, including Leia Thompson (Diana), Courtney Henggeler (Suzie) and Debbie Rochon (Tara).
While I’m giving this a relatively low rating due to the story bogging down after the first half hour and some lame writing here or there, it’s watchable if you don’t mind really low-budget fare. There’s a nice twist in the last act that I didn’t see coming.
It runs 1 hour, 22 minutes, and was shot in Bovina, New York, which is a 1.5-hour drive southeast of Albany and a 1-hour drive northwest of Woodstock.
GRADE: C-