Ogre is a Canadian 2008 B-Movie in which a vicious ogre rules over a small town that has been stuck in time since 1850. Filmed in Vancouver (but set in Pennsylvania), this movie is decent for B-movie fans who like their Shrek R-rated.
This movie contains examples of
- The Ageless: The residents of the town have spent centuries unable to age or reproduce.
- Anachronism Stew: The film begins in Pennsylvania in 1859 but the trappings feel wrong for both the continent and the era. The town is initially run by an aristocratic lord whose status would make more sense in Canada or a story set 100 years earlier, while the village also has a mage (who has apparently been knighted in his past) whose role would fit more seamlessly in the European Middle Ages.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: With their curse ended, the townspeople no longer belong on this earth and vanish in pillars of light.
- Badass Boast - "My gun scared it off. If it was scared, it's because it was hurt, and if it can be hurt, we can kill it."
- Bottomless Magazines - Mike fires that shotgun far too many times without reloading, although it eventually does run empty right in time to stop him from saving a villager.
- The Cassandra: Franklin suggests that Bartlett is engaging in Engineered Heroics to make himself the town's leader centuries before anyone realizes he's right. He eventually becomes Barlett's Redeeming Replacement as town leader, rallying men to fight the ogre.
- The Chessmaster: Bartlett engineered a plague to make the townspeople desperate enough to make him their leader if he cures them while infecting his own daughter to make himself look innocent before curing everyone, then uses the supposedly random sacrifices to the ogre to get rid of his enemies every year.
- Closed Circle: A literal magical circle keeps townspeople in the town, and another used to keep the ogre away from the houses toward the climax.
- Cursed with Awesome: Hey, it's still immortality.
- Dark Is Evil: The bad magician wears black, the good magician wears white and whose first name is Hope for extra emphasis.
- Dying Town: Annual sacrifice to the ogre with no means of replenishing the population have reduced the town to a couple of dozen people.
- "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "Filthy beast."
- Heroic Sacrifice: Feigned by Mike to trick the ogre.
- Instant Runes: A pentagram is placed on the palm of the annual sacrifice.
- Justified Criminal: Mike needed that police car way more than the skeptic cops did and steals it to get back to town and stop the ogre.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: The lovely, twentyish Hope Bartlett is the only child of dark wizard Sir Henry and has learned some of his better spells, while also showing Silk Hiding Steel determination to fight both her father and his beast after learning of his evil machinations.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Terry awakens the ogre before the annual sacrifice, causing its unmitigated rampage.
- Oh, Crap!: Pretty much every victim of the ogre before it attacks them.
- Our Ogres Are Hungrier: It's right there in the title!
- Police Are Useless: The cops are fat and disbelieve Jessica claiming there's an ogre for them to fight.
- Saying Too Much: Bartlett's rant about how much time it will buy the townspeople to abduct the four outsiders who stumbled across the town and make them the sacrifices for the next four years accidentally lets both long-time Commander Contrarian Franklin and Bartlett's own daughter Hope realize that he controls who gets sacrificed every year rather than the magic spell he casts selecting someone at random.
- Squishy Wizard: Bartlett can create an ogre, make people immortal, cast energy spells, and summon plagues, but dies after one hit from the ogre after being unable to repel it with his magic.
- Time Stands Still: The residents of the town cannot age, die naturally, or procreate.
- Urban Legends: The town is thought to be a myth by residents of nearby cities.
- The Virus: An apparently incurable pox makes the townspeople desperate enough to use Barlett's magic.