The Reaping
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Cast: Hilary Swank, David Morressey, AnnaSophia Robb
Plot outline: Katherine and her collegue Ben, who both specialises in explaining miracles with scientific reasons, go to investigate a small town where the river has turned red after the death of a young man.
Hopkins throws us right into the scariness from the very first scene, but from there the tense moments are sparse and the tricks to make the audience "jump" are cheap. Most of them feel overused, the angles warns you beforehand what's going to happen, and the characters all feel like they've been created from a recipe for a horror movie: the priest who warns them and is killed by the dark forces, the companion to the heroine (always a heroine, never a hero) who is killed and leaves the main character to fight for themselves. Also, the Christian element in this bothers me. I know I should expect it from an American movie, but I'm always disappointed; this is another cliché: the faithful Christian who lost faith after a tragedy and vehemntly turns to science, but in the (happy) end, he/she comes around and returns to the light, to the "true" path, what you SHOULD believe. I'm still waiting for an atheist American movie hero.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444682/
Cast: Hilary Swank, David Morressey, AnnaSophia Robb
Plot outline: Katherine and her collegue Ben, who both specialises in explaining miracles with scientific reasons, go to investigate a small town where the river has turned red after the death of a young man.
Hopkins throws us right into the scariness from the very first scene, but from there the tense moments are sparse and the tricks to make the audience "jump" are cheap. Most of them feel overused, the angles warns you beforehand what's going to happen, and the characters all feel like they've been created from a recipe for a horror movie: the priest who warns them and is killed by the dark forces, the companion to the heroine (always a heroine, never a hero) who is killed and leaves the main character to fight for themselves. Also, the Christian element in this bothers me. I know I should expect it from an American movie, but I'm always disappointed; this is another cliché: the faithful Christian who lost faith after a tragedy and vehemntly turns to science, but in the (happy) end, he/she comes around and returns to the light, to the "true" path, what you SHOULD believe. I'm still waiting for an atheist American movie hero.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444682/
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