« Movies  Random Movies: Population 436  by Andrew Green  I've
lived in several small towns, but none quite as interesting as
this one.  Population 436 (2006)   Some people get lost in a
horrible small town full of murderous psychos.  Population
436 is your standard "Guy uncovers horrible secrets in a quaint
small town" movie. In this case, it's a census taker who wants
to know why the remote community of Rockwell falls has
maintained the exact same population for, like, 150 years. As
you can imagine, it's not just a coincidence. Now, even though
there really isn't anything SPECIAL about Population 436, I
found it to be a reasonably entertaining film. Pretty much from
the get-go, it's clear that the locals are killing off residents
to maintain the 436 figure, but exactly WHY is a mystery that
keeps us engaged through the end. Of course, the ANSWER to the
Why question is a bit of a let-down (couldn't they have come up
with some crazy Satanist number-worshiping sort of story or
something?), but that still doesn