from the teaster it doesnt look to me like people start killing each other... it looks like people start killing themselves...
i thought the village was a pretty decent movie, as well as signs and 6th sense and unbreakable. none of them were astounding, but they all had their moments and did well what they aimed to do... unbreakable was a comic book hero and villain come to life, minus the theatrics of the graphic novel genre. 6ht sense and signs were both thrillers with glimpses at horror moments, and admittedly cheesy moments. the village was also a sci-fi thriller/drama, though it was *not* "signs+monster instead of alien" which is how it was sodl and that is the false advertising that made everyone hate it... everyone expected something scary and it was never intended to be scary...
however, with all that praise, i agree the writing is not the best, it resorts to cheese every once and a while, and the dependence upon the plot twist ending is stale. however, that aside, and also ignoring the fact the for some idiotic reason people keep hiring mark walhberg for movies, this film doesnt look bad, especially since it is getting an R rating and not conceding to some random producers desire to appease the MPAA and get more high school wallets into the theater.