Review – The Garden

Apparently if the Apocalypse took place entirely in some creepy old guy’s back yard then it wouldn’t amount to much. This horror movie has strong Christian overtones, making it a combination of elements that probably did it out of any chance of finding an audience. A child with a troubled past accompanies his father to a remote ranch that turns out to belong to the devil (Lance Henriksen). The filmmakers seem sincere about integrating faith into the production rather than just using Christian jim-jams as anti-monster props. Unfortunately the production quality is too weak to pull it off. For example, when the Four Horsemen come charging out of the old guy’s barn, they look like refugees from the Barbarian Woods section of the Renaissance Festival. The picture is also hampered by occasional bouts of witless sanctimony, the sort of see-what-happens-when-you-mess-with-Jesus one would expect from a Chick comic, not a sincere attempt to make a good horror movie. Mildly amusing