***Spoilers*** What was 'The Reaping' about?!
Question: I don't plan on watching, and my brother is having trouble explaining it so could someone tell me or tell me where I can find out about it.
Answers: I don't plan on watching, and my brother is having trouble explaining it so could someone tell me or tell me where I can find out about it.
The death of a child in mysterious circumstances and sparks of a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, start occurring in a town called Haven located deep in bible belt country in the bayous of Louisiana.
A former Christian missionary turned religious phenomena debunker (Hillary Swank) and her top open minded student turned personnel assistant is sent to investigate to prove their validity.
So she goes to the town and witnesses first hand all these plagues and finds the little girl supposedly responsible for it all. In the end, she discovers that the little girl is actually an angel and that the supposedly god-fearing townspeople are actually in a demonic cult. She rescues the little girl as fire rains down on the evil townspeople killing them. As they drive off, the little girl reveals to Swank that she is pregnant and carrying the prophesized demonic child that everyone originally believed the little girls was.
The Ten Plagues are: (portrayed out of order from the Bible in the film)
rivers and other water sources turned to blood
amphibians (commonly believed to be frogs) lice or gnats
wild animals
disease on livestock
unhealable boils
hail mixed with fire
locusts
darkness
death of the firstborn
By the way, it was a pretty terrible movie. It had some decent moments, but overall it was pretty stupid.
Katherine Winter doesn't believe in miracles--she believes in facts. A former minister, Katherine turned her back on the cloth after losing her young daughter and husband while doing missionary work in the Sudan, and now seeks answers through scientific investigation rather than prayer. As a university professor, she has become the foremost debunker of supposed miracles, called to sites all over the world to investigate weeping statues, wall stains resembling saints and palms that bleed. And so far, there is no divine mystery she hasn't solved. But when small-town schoolteacher Doug Blackwell seeks her help with a series of bizarre occurrences the townspeople believe to be sent by God, Katherine and her partner Ben come to learn that sometimes miracles can be treacherous, and the line between faith and superstition is dangerously thin. Hidden among the woods and swamplands of Louisiana, Haven is a town where the rules of reason seem to have been rewritten. A child has died and the river has turned to blood, which is only the beginning of what appears to be a revisiting of the Biblical ten plagues upon the town. For the first time in her professional career, Katherine can't explain these phenomena with science. The townspeople believe an enigmatic child named Loren McConnell has brought God's wrath to their doorstep, but what they see as a harbinger of evil, Katherine sees as a lost child needing her help. The more she is drawn into the dark heart of the mystery, the more Katherine discovers her own role in a conspiracy that threatens to shroud the world in darkness.