Legend of the Bog (2009)
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Once in a while, I rent a movie based solely on the title and box art. The Redbox has definitely fed right into this habit. I'll wander up to the machine and glance over the selection until a movie or two catches my eye. Thus did I end up taking home Legend of the Bog, starring Vinnie Jones.
When I got through the previews to the DVD menu, I could already tell I was in trouble. Scenes of a big, bald man in what looked like a sack cloth tunic running across the countryside while the least appropriate music for a horror movie played dominated. I started to wonder if this was a Lifetime Movie Network film about a misunderstood man living in the bogs, rather than the horror/action movie the cover promised.
Knowing I was in for some pain as I hit play, my first thought when the FBI warning came up was that it should say something along the lines of "Any duplication, authorized or otherwise, will result in a taint on your very soul which can never be absolved." I grabbed my laptop and decided to share the pain by typing my thoughts into Twitter as the movie progressed.
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