the audience applauded

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't Believe the Hype

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

My personal impression of this movie is so bad , i mean i've seen over 1000 horror movies , and belive me , this is the worst ... The movie is so unsatisfy to watch and si unrralateble for his gender is just pure agony to watch it .

A reclusive backwoods society maintains their way of life by making sacrifices to an unspecified monster. When a teenage girl discovers both that she is pregnant and she's the next sacrifice, she tries to escape her fate. Some blood, but mostly just creepy and sees the ending through with more focus than A-List movies. Acting is not just serviceable but good, especially since it deals with backwoods archetypes that it's hard to not turn into a parody. This thing is deadly serious and realistically portrayed even with the supernatural elements.Good movie - kind of a different take on "Winter's Bone" if you liked that. Check it out.

Straight up I'll say that Jug Face is definitely one of the more worthwhile horrors available on Netflix instant right now. Although it's ultra low budget, it's impeccably acted (including a surprising turn up of Sean Young whom I haven't seen in years) and the story and directing maintain a delicious southern Gothic atmosphere throughout. It's short, clocking in at a nifty 81 minutes, but that's a good thing in this case because the story is a simple, character-driven morality tale that didn't need padding or embellishing with extra subplots.The story centers on Ada (played brilliantly by Lauren Ashley Carter), who is a timid young woman living with a backwoods moonshine cult in some undisclosed region of Southern USA. The cult worship a small pit in the woods which apparently has the ability to heal them but which in return demands occasional sacrifices. Whatever old god or beast dwells in the pit briefly possesses one of the inhabitants of the group - the potter - and makes him shape a clay jug in the likeness of one of the group who is then unceremoniously bent over a tree stump beside the pit and has their throat slit. The blood apparently placates the pit... for a while...When Ada finds a jug in her own likeness in the potters kiln, she understandably takes it and hides it in the woods to avoid her own sacrifice - mostly because she is with child. But this selfishness leads to a number of gruesome deaths as the beast in the pit punishes the followers for her act of selfishness. It's pretty obvious where the story will go and how it will end, but surprises aren't the reason behind the southern Gothic style anyway. The strength in Jug Face lies in its simplicity, its creepiness, and the lingering question of whether it's right to save oneself even to the detriment of the larger populace. In spite of a few dodgy special effects and a story component involving a ghost boy whose presence seems purely to function as an info dump, I still very much enjoyed its backwoods flavor, sick characters and offbeat atmosphere. 6/10.

I knew at first that this movie was a low budget and that was fine with me because some low budget movie are really awesome, but when I was watching this one, I thought at first it was going to be good low budget horror, but it changed about half way through the movie and I was disappointed. Maybe they will start improving on some low budget films and at least make the story line better.I hope the actors realized this in making the movie, I know the producers know they are not working with a lot of money but it has to be able to be real or at least feel real. If they would have re-shot the last half of the movie it would have been better.