Review – Clive Barker's The Plague

Like many of its brethren in the “zombie apocalypse” subgenre, this entry is a lot more wind-up than pitch. The concept is intriguing: every child on earth under the age of nine suddenly goes into a coma. Then ten years later they all emerge from their trances in the mood to murder everyone in their paths. From there, however, it swiftly evolves into a standard “rag-tag band of survivors struggles to evade imminent death while trying to figure out what’s happened and what to do about it.” Also, although I’m normally against the pretentious practice of bylining movies, I’m glad they stuck Barker’s name into the title of this one. I’m a big Barker fan from all the way back around the original Hellraiser, and I might not have given this outing a second glance if not for the tie to the author. And that would have been a shame, because it’s got some of his characteristic touches in addition to the usual zombie shtick. Mildly amusing