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Reaping, The
Warner Bros. Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for violence, disturbing images and some sexuality
Starring
Hilary Swank,
David Morrissey,
Idris Elba,
Stephen Rea,
William Ragsdale,
John McConnell,
David Jensen,
and
Samuel Garland
Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed, and has since become a world renowned expert in disproving religious phenomena. But when she investigates a small Louisiana town that is suffering from what appears to be the Biblical plagues, she realizes that science cannot explain what is happening and she must regain the faith to combat the dark forces threatening the community. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
|
Sci-fi
|
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Carey Hayes
Chad Hayes
Brian Rousso (story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Stephen Hopkins
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 16, 2007
Theatrical: April 5, 2007
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
An effectively unsettling mix of Southern gothic and Old Testament hugger-mugger, with shades of "The Exorcist" and even "Rosemary's Baby" thrown in.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
One either likes this sort of thing or not. Even fans might not buy the ending in which more people get wiped out than in Hurricane Katrina.

60
Variety
Justin Chang
Revisiting the book of Exodus in a feverish Southern-gothic context, this lurid, often ludicrously entertaining slab of Biblesploitation builds an earnest case for spirituality in a skeptical age.

60
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordona
The seeds of most Biblical horror movies are sown in the Book of Revelations; The Reaping at least gets marks for originality for springing from Exodus.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
The Reaping is Bible camp, pure and simple. And for bad-movie lovers, it's manna from heaven.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
For genre fans, the horde-of-locust sequence may alone be worth the price of admission.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Notable for its enthusiastic abandonment of any semblance of narrative coherence.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The script, which is rarely smart and barely scary, offers little more than a checklist of panic-inducing plagues, from locusts to boils to bad Southern accents.

50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
This stuff is strictly run of DeMille.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Swank and Elba work hard for their paychecks, but Rea quite literally phones in his performance.

40
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The only remotely notable thing about this particular jumble of boos, bangs and door creaks...is that it tries to wed the horror trend with the heated-up God market.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Ludicrous and overstuffed, it plows through the Big 10 of Biblical plagues.

38
Premiere
Laine Ewen
Some of the effects are squirm-worthy, if not actually frightening. Amid all the fake profundity, those moments -- you know, when the film is actually entertaining -- are rare.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's hard to say what is more responsible for the film's utter failure: Hopkins direction, the editing, or the screenplay. The result is such a muddle that one assumes each aspect deserves part of the blame.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
No belief on earth can rescue Swank from a film that's a chain of disaster chintz masquerading as a sermon.

30
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Those two age-old foes--science and blind faith--tango yet again in this noxious slice of Biblical horror about a series of Old Testament plagues being visited upon a Louisiana bayou backwater.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Pardon the pun, but audiences will reap little from this satanic backwoods juju thriller.

30
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
The Reaping isn't a total failure. Swank is never less than competent.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
If only The Reaping had the decency to be coherent.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Although The Reaping' borrows elements from classics of the genre -- rips them off might be more accurate -- it fails to build the psychological tension that made them so creepily good.

25
USA Today
Claudia Puig
As if this drivel weren't bad enough, the ending blatantly threatens a sequel

12
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Long-delayed, pitiful excuse for a horror film.

10
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
This high-decibel shocker is an insult to intelligence and faith alike.


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