The first is the rivers turn to blood. The second frogs drop dead. The third lice set in. The fourth are massive amounts of flies. The fifth is your livestock become ill and eventually die. The sixth is unhealable boils appear. The seventh is a hail storm mixed with fire. The eighth is locusts....swarms and swarms of locusts. The ninth is pure and total darkness. And the tenth is the death of the first born child.
I went to see The Reaping last night. And I have to say, as much as the ending bothered me, I really liked the movie overall. I did think it was a well written and very well acted movie...especially AnnaSophia Robb (the little girl who played Violet in the remake of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory).
Basically, the movie is about the 10 plagues, and how they begin to take over this small town in Louisiana. Hilary Swank's character is called in to offer a scientific reason of why all of these strange things happen in this town. And supposedly this all happens because this little girl (AnnaSophia Robb's character) finds her brother dead, but because her family isn't the "ideal" family. The little girl is thought to have killed her brother, and is the reason why all of these plagues start to occur. So Hilary Swank's character sets out to prove this whole town wrong that this is not physically or scientifically possible. But, as in every movie there must be a twist. The twist is that Hilary Swank was not really brought in to prove, scientifically why all of this happens. In fact, she's brought into this Bayou town to help rid the girl and the plagues. A whole lot of stuff in between happens, and after....but I gave enough of a spoiler!
I did like this movie for many reasons. Maybe because it was better than the last horror/thriller movie I went to see ("Dead Silence"), which honestly, wasn't hard to top! And honestly, I'm in desperate need for one good, scary, gory, horror film. The last movie like that that I saw was "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning." I miss movies like that.
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I liked the movie, too! But I was confused by one thing.. Doug guy tells Hilary Swank's character that his wife died right around the time they started to try to have children. Do you think that had anything to do with his part later on in the movie? I'm probably not making sense, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone that read's this and hasn't seen the movie.
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