Review of Population 436 (2006) by James S — 14 Nov 2014

WOW.....WOW.....WOW....JUST SO SO SO SO SO BAD......MAN I HAVE JUST SEEN THIS MOVIE 4 THE 1ST TIME N THINK THAT THIS IS SUCH A DREADFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SO SO SO AWFUL, ITS GOT A GOOD SOUNDTRACK THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE.....MAN THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS JUST SUCH AN AWFUL MESSY MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SO RUBBISH, DREADFUL, POINTLESS, THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL RUBBISH MOVIE 2 WATCH, THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL MESSY BORING RUBBISH DREADFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, MAN THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, JUST AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS IT IS THAT BAD.......ITS GOT A GOOD SOUNDTRACK THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE......

Alternate ending::

In the Alternate ending, Kady and Amanda survive, as Kady swerves to avoid the truck at the last possible moment, avoiding their fatal accident.

This movie carries a more-than-passing parallel/allusion to Shirley Jackson's classic short story, "The Lottery", published in New Yorker Magazine, 1948. This is particularly apparent in the sequence where the resident who is to be sacrificed to keep the population down is selected by drawing a name from a box full of slips of paper on which residents have written their names. It also shares a similar theme with M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man as being a secluded small town stuck in a completely different era, both in custom and in dress.

The story also contains references to numerology, in particular Biblical numerology. The residents of Rockwell Falls believe that the word 'solidarity' has a numerological value of 13, which is also the sum of the digits of 436, the town's population (There are also 13 letters in the town's name). (See digit summing). In Population 436, special meanings are also attributed to the individual numbers 4, 3 and 6.

THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL MESSY MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SO SO SO BAD.....JUST AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS.....