A small town is hit by The Ten Plagues. People are getting sick and some are dying.

You'll understand if you at least know the Ten Plagues from the Bible. Otherwise you'll be lost and confused. Throughout the whole movie you get a sense that the movie is based on demonic beings but that's what the movie is based on. I wasn't too...
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You'll understand if you at least know the Ten Plagues from the Bible. Otherwise you'll be lost and confused. Throughout the whole movie you get a sense that the movie is based on demonic beings but that's what the movie is based on. I wasn't too disappointed with the movie since it has a twist at the end and I would be writing how I disappointed I was if it was like a Exorcist type movie.

Hilary Swank most probably put her hands over the eyes of her two Oscars, so they dont see the next artificial pseudo-religious horror, compared to which even the artificial penis she used in "Boys dont cry" looks real and hairy. It may...
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Hilary Swank most probably put her hands over the eyes of her two Oscars, so they dont see the next artificial pseudo-religious horror, compared to which even the artificial penis she used in "Boys dont cry" looks real and hairy. It may be a bit of a harsh metaphore, but honestly, this Stephen Hopkins flick didn't try to spare my poor young mind either. At the center of the story is again a little girl, burdened with a too-much-for-her-talent demonicness, and araoun who God's plagues reign havoc (the ones that God used to whoop the Egyptians' backside. you know.)She is, by the way, the spoiled brat from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Hopkins probably told her to look like daddy refused to buy her a new toy, only more spooky.
So amidst the water-turning-into-blood, dead cows, frog rain, locusts and the ulltimate meteor shower (that looks like a 10th level spell from a crappy 90s RPG) in walks Swank, looking like a pleasantly skinny mission woman, that has abandoned faith (but not the masochistic diets). Unless you are a distinguished farmer , who would get petrified with fear by seeing the poorly animated insect invasion and would run to the garden and worriedly hug his cabbage, I don't see what else could scare you. The biggest problem is I don't see anything else that would keep you awake and I believe your bed at home is a bit more comfortable than the seat at the theater. Besides, noone at your place would shout in his cell phone on the back row "I'm watching this rad grashopper movie, girl. Load up some britney spears in Winamp and chill the vodka. I'll let them kill two more and Im coming home".

Better than you'd expect.


At first sight I honestly thought this was going to be just another cheapskate horror movie trying to act cool even though it's a nerdy kid with aviator sunglasses. Just look at the cover, I don't even...
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Better than you'd expect.


At first sight I honestly thought this was going to be just another cheapskate horror movie trying to act cool even though it's a nerdy kid with aviator sunglasses. Just look at the cover, I don't even know what on EARTH is going on there.

Not to mention the first part of the movie, which aside from being confusing didn't really add anything to the overall story. Her dad, her daughter, well they don't really play any role besides being referenced to in dialogues which don't add to the movie at all.

I couldn't really follow the story, but then again I was multi-tasking. Writing essays and whatnot. From what I understood the movie is pretty complicated, not so surprising because it really tries to be. Hilary Swank's face can hardly be called complicated though, since she's only got one expression.

The visuals were droolworthy. Once or twice I went, wtf this is cheap, but most of the time I was blown away by the visual arts. They really did a good job there!


Oh, and there's this plot twist at the end which I really didn't see coming. But I'm not the brightest of people, so you know, it's probably obviously obvious.


Sweet film, really.