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Almost as soon as I started watching it, JUG FACE captivated me and became one of my favorite films of the summer. The half hour behind the scenes documentary is an insightful look at what made this little horror film a reality. The second little accident happened when I forgot to check the label before I added the colorants to the clay. Jug Face is now available on DVD and I sincerely recommend the shit outta it. Ada is beaten so badly she miscarries her baby. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Few of the skilled potters who made face jugs have been identified by name and their inspiration for making face vessels is really unknown. I wish I knew because WE GOT NEXT TO NO DETAIL about the ‘thing’ at the bottom of the muddy redneck hole. Because that lady up thurr is also Lieutenant Einhorn from the Ace Ventura movie. These items helped to keep the potters from closing down since they appealed to the tourist trade. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Something about the setting, aside from striking close to home (there’s quite the redneck population in my town), has always interested me. She knew her shit, my grandma.. Dawai is brought before the community for not coming through on his work as the Potter and tied next to the hole as an offering. | Rotten (5). We’re told that the backwoods community in that area worship a creature in the pit and that blood sacrifices need to be made to it to keep it happy but this is really all the information we are provided with. You're almost there! From producer Lucky McKee comes Jug Face. These people worship a pit, and sacrifice whomever they need to to appease it, even themselves. SEE WHAT I DID THERE). Kinkle shows welcome restraint in pacing his grimy little tale, even if the sum of its parts never quite feels like more than an admirably rendered campfire yarn. Ada learns the face on the latest jug is her own; she buries the jug in the woods, setting off a gory chain reaction as the pit exacts revenge on its worshippers for not giving it what it wants. I’ve watched a lot of DTV and indie horror films over the past year. There really IS a beast and it really demands a sacrifice in order for it to heal the community from any illnesses that they may have. Remember my personal information Besides the whole incest thing, she’s recently been promised to another member of the community, so her sexual activity would disgrace her family. Shame. Creepy atmospherics enliven this idiosyncratic chiller. She wanders home with her panties full of the same DNA she has inside her body (also gross) and finds out she is to be “joined” (read: wed) to some doughy ass dude from one of the like three other families who lives in this hole in the ground place (get it? The movie starts with her screwing around with her brother in the woods. Besides the arranged marriages and mothers frequently checking their daughters to make sure they are still virgins, there’s a pit on the outskirts of town that everyone in the community worships and reveres. Sadly, it's a hungry little pit. the hour was late and desperation upon us, so allow me to grant unto you…. "Jug Face" starts with one of those chasing-through-the-woods, near-date-rape type sequences, but Ada exercises a tad of free will and assents to the deed, which happens to take place near The Pit. What is the pit exactly? All rights reserved. It’s never explained why they worship the pit or the origins of their sacrifice rituals. I swear to god.. Don’t worry, it won’t take long. He’s a boy ghost who follows Ada around, scaring the shit out of her and being an overall creep. | Rating: B- I really wanted to give this movie a good review, and honestly, up until the ¾ mark it IS a fairly decent backwoods horror flick. Researchers speculate that the vessels may have had religious or burial significance, or that they reflect the complex responses of people attempting to live and maintain their personal identities under cruel and often difficult conditions. It’s more in-your-face with the gore than the feature, but its a fun little short. With Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Kaitlin Cullum, Larry Fessenden. There's no belabored dialogue, or melodrama in Jug Face. But what good is the protection if it means anyone can die, not from pox or famine, but from being sacrificed? Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. Jug Face doesn't offer any great revelations. The dude she was trying to sell the moonshine to calls Ada’s father who drives out to the town and promptly picks up her and Dawai and takes them back to the town and brutally beats both of them. There is a method to the madness. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Loved this movie. When she learns the supernatural pit worshipped by her remote community in the woods has demanded her as a blood sacrifice, Ada struggles to … lol peace. It just doesn't really do enough to be more than just good. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. "Jug Face" is not uniformly polished, yet it's a breakthrough, not so much for gore, or terror, but because the director can truly do tension, maybe a harder trick to pull off. Still, while this is probably still just a good horror film at its best. |, August 22, 2019 Right from the start you’ll get the feeling that something weird in going on in this small, hillbilly community. Excuse me Ma’am, I’m just here doing a roadside virginity test, can you step out of the car and your panties please?). And she did it to save the one guy who she had manipulated – and who she knew loved her. This all adds to the mystery of possible deeper meaning of the face jugs in the slave culture. All Critics (21) Turns out, that the pit..  “wants what it wants”, meaning that when your number is called, the jig is up and you’ve gotta pay the piper.. Sign up here. | Rating: 2.5/4 |, August 18, 2014 Ada is visited by the ghostly bunch of CGI and her ailing grandfather who offer to help her escape. There's no twist ending, but the denouement spares us a Tinseltown-mandated "happy" resolution. Or punishment. Just my luck then that technology basically dumped Jug Face in my lap courtesy of Netflix in one of their recent updates. The end was awesome – the girl realized she had to let herself be sacrificed after her friend, fiancee, friends mom, her brother and her dad were kilt quite horrible while the monster put her in a trance and made her watch. But it succeeds where so many others fail and that is knowing how to properly build to its climax. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) … Zombie Kitties & Zombie Titties!!! I was losing my fucking mind. Her father tries to be gentle and tells her that she should have been up front about banging Dawai (which she didn’t) and she confesses to them that it was actually her brother’s baby and both of her parents lose their goddamned minds about it because they think thats the grossest thing ever, basically. Well – I thought it was brilliant. Lieutenant Einhorn gives Ada a roadside virginity test and Ada doesn’t pass, but it just ends in her screaming that she likes to masturbate, so that was cool I guess. GENRE: HORROR There’s some decent gore and lots of bloodshed, but the most effective bits of terror are when the pit is killing people, and we have no idea how. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. Jug Face is a finely crafted dark tale of incest, backwater mentality, and survival. Then Ada’s interference in the annual ritual angers the pit and the audience is shown what the hole in the ground can really do. There is no simple line in the sand here where you can point to certain characters and say, “Oh, those are obviously the good characters,” while others are the “evil.” Every character has elements of good and evil within them. So the backstory with Jug Face is that once upon a midnight dreary, some settlers in the backwoods stumbled upon a pit in the ground and somehow decided that this pit would keep them safe and healthy if they performed ritual human sacrifice in it’s name, when the pit asked of course..  and how does a hole in the ground request human sacrifices in its name you might ask – well through backwoods shamans known as “potters” who make moonshine jugs in the likeness of those selected to die. In an insular rural moonshiners' community, a malevolent pit periodically demands the sacrifice of whoever's face appears on a jug. The answers to its big questions are revealed early on-murderous visions and messages from poor-quality CGI spirits quickly confirm the pit's cognizance, and that the cultists aren't quite as crazy as they seem-but these elements are only partially explained. This explained why my jug had a face with its mouth skewed and drooped terribly to the side. It’s a thing. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Another account traces the 1st face jugs in the US to African slaves who worked on American plantations. Issue #67 - Phoebe Bridgers and Moses Sumney, Issue #67 - Phoebe Bridgers and Moses Sumney. |, February 4, 2016 It’s the resolution (or lack of one) that really washes this one down the toilet like a dirty old flipper baby fetus. Shudder Announces Three-Night Halloween Event “The Shudder Drive-In” With Films, Performers and More! Jug Face is a subtle little movie that doesn't really explain all that much about itself, but gives you just enough info here and there to hook you and keep you on the line. Ada’s brother and also baby daddy Jessaby, tells his Dad that he is sick and he needs to go have a wash in the pit to make himself better and his dad takes him out to the hole, and instead of being cured, the creature in the pit rips Jessaby apart. So Ada decides to protect her baby and of course doesn’t fess up to Dawai that she’s carrying around a likely genetic mutation and tells him to make a jug from memory and he rolls up the next day with a doughy jug face and well it’s curtains for Ada’s tubby husband to be. It doesn't have that 'Wow' moment that made We Are What We Are such a memorable film. Knowing that Dawai will be killed if she runs, she opts to instead stay and greets the dawn of a new day with a slit throat bleeding into the hole in the ground loved by her community.

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