Review – The Reaping

A small town in backwater bayou Louisiana is beset by the Ten Plagues of Egypt (in more or less biblical order). Is it the wrath of God, or is it Satan at work through a tween-age girl? The production goes in a couple of different directions with this. As a straight horror movie – including the reactions of a skeptical scientist both to the phenomena and to the townspeople’s reaction to it – this isn’t too bad. Unfortunately we also get a lot of mooning around about questions of faith, and that part isn’t so hot. Overall it had enough interesting tricks to keep it going. Or perhaps I just liked it more than I should have because I watched it right after sitting through Bug, compared to which most anything would have seemed like a masterpiece. Mildly amusing