The Reaping – spontaneously combusting pictures

It’s been my third trip to the theatre to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with no luck, every time I have gone it has been sold out. I was being treated to a movie by a co-worker and there was no way I was going to let that pass so I decided to choose a random flick from the board in the 5pm time slot, after all I had a choice of 4 films in 5 theaters (Pirates was being shown in two). I’ve already seen Spiderman 3 (crap) and Shrek the Third (disappointing), so guess what was left? The Reaping. I am not a horror movie fan, mainly because lately most of them have been nothing but a gore exhibition, but I remembered seeing a trailer for the Reaping some months back and thought it was interesting.

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Without divulging to much of the plot, in one corner you have a female ordained Christian minister who lost her husband and child who were sacrificed to appease the gods :D, in another corner you have a black man with more bullet wholes that pores, but thankfully as is the norm with black people in horror flicks (I have observed) he didn’t die first or the most gruesome death. In the third corner you have a very weird town with the most varied accents within a few square miles, some people were country, some were European and there was even a surfer dude accent thrown into the lot 😀 (Duuuuuude!), in the forth and final corner you have the the devil or is it god? heck I don’t know, you find out. Sprinkle ten plagues, puberty, a cult, sandy feet and erotic dream and you have the formula for this movie. I enjoyed the film it was entertaining but a little rough around the edges, I say it is worth a watch, as for Pirates 3, sorry Johnny but my friend dropped off the bootleg early this morning.

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2 thoughts on “The Reaping – spontaneously combusting pictures

  1. my kids have been talking about the reaping sometime back, and i could not relate. thanks to you, now i have some idea, so i won’t be totally left out of place.

  2. hhhmm you already know how I do with horror but I still might just sit there & watch with my hands covering my face just peeking thru my fingers like whats gonna happen next?!!

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