2007 · horror · supernatural
The Reaping
Directed by Stephen Hopkins1h 39m2007
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
Our read: The Reaping (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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