It's wedding day for Skylar (Alexa Vega) and Dan (Bryan Dechart). Suddenly, multitudes of seemingly random people drop dead. The couple and others make their way in this apocalyptic world.
This is a horror movie for Christians. The Rapture is their favorite horror subject matter. I do like that the Rapture happens multiple times and the earlier appearances of the Dementors. Multiple Raptures allow for drama in the discovery and holds out the potential for escape. The first Dementor attack is solid horror. Sadly, the Dementors are not good CGI which culminates with a laughable Dementor-filled world which looks so cheap. Quite frankly, the Christian part of the horror movie is too preachy. I guess that they just can't help it. The best Christian films don't hit the nail on the head so hard.
The Remaining
2014
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Remaining
2014
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.
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January 14, 2015 at 05:00 PM
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Christian horror movie
Holy molly!
Wow! I was surprised by how quickly I got hooked on it.
The chaos and all natural disaster stuff was really well done, the effects were pretty good.
For a movie I had no idea what it was about, it turned out to be quite entertaining. Except the ending, which sucked big time!
I didn't care for all the religious bs, but it got pretty annoying by as the movie went on. It would've been good to show the strange creatures (fallen angels?). But it was pretty scary and tense not seeing them at all.
To sum up: it's just another average end-of-the-world, survival and suspense-horror flick.
Don't take it too serious and you might enjoy it.
INSTANT DEATH SYNDROME
Fifteen minutes into the film Skylar (Alexa PenaVega) proclaims, "Biblical end of the world" and still couldn't find the rapture in the Bible. Of course people who claim it is aliens are laughed at by those who credit God with the situation. Much of the action takes place in a church. The director/writer/editors were savvy enough to know a long church scene would get boring so they toss in newscast showing the situation at various locations. The film also comes across as sci-fi horror with creatures in the mist. This made the film far more entertaining than that Nicolas Cage disaster film. While the planes dropping from the sky in this film weren't as well done in "Left Behind" you were able to emotionally experience the event better. I personally liked the library girl of all the characters.
Now there were some issues I had. Why is it that so many people from the "Free Love" generation get "taken?" We also discover one had to have a personal relationship with Jesus to get raptured, yet kids and new born babies are part of this also. I know the Catholic Church created "Limbo" to account for where unbaptized babies would go when they died. They weren't in heaven, but didn't know they weren't in heaven. But then the church did away with Limbo, and now I don't know what happens to unbaptized babies which would most likely be in the same situation as kids before "the age of accountability" would go should (or when) there is a rapture.
Now in the Catholic church's defense, they are not as big into that end times stuff as they are baptizing heathen babies in the third world. However, I am glad to see the Apocalyptic Christians have this all worked out and are not as messed up as those of us who have dabbled in Catholicism.
8 stars for people of faith.
Guide: No F-bombs, sex, or nudity. Italia Ricci displays cleavage!