Hilary Swank stars as an ex-missionary minister who uses reason and science to debunk supernatural events. When she's called to investigate strange happenings, such as frogs falling from the sky and swarms of locusts, in a small Southern parish, she discovers that at the center of the plagues is a year-old girl. Directed by Stephen Hopkins. A girl finds her dead mother on the floor, and blood seeps and pools around the girl's feet.
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Also, there seem to be a couple plot holes in the story. Although the movie has a strong Christian worldview where God shows up, performs miracles and punishes the wicked, it has some foul language and a sex scene. Hillary Swank stars as Katherine Winter, a former ordained Christian missionary who lost her faith when her husband and daughter were murdered by superstitious natives in the Sudan during a drought. Now, Katherine is a professor at Louisiana State University who travels around the world debunking alleged miracles. After debunking an alleged Christian miracle in Chile, Katherine and her assistant Ben are called to the bayou in Louisiana, where the town named Haven has seen the local swamp turn red. The townspeople believe that a mysterious blond girl from an ostracized family is a tool of Satan and that she is causing the miracles to mimic and mock God. Katherine learns that a satanic cult may be somehow involved with this family. In the end, the truth is revealed, Katherine regains her faith, and God performs a couple powerful miracles, punishes some of the wicked and protects some of the righteous. Also, there seem to be a couple plot holes in the overall story.
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The Reaping is a American psychological horror thriller film, starring Hilary Swank. The film was directed by Stephen Hopkins for Warner Bros. The music for the film was scored by John Frizzell. In Chile , they examine the corpse of a priest who remains in pristine condition despite being dead for 40 years. Eventually they discover that toxic waste helped preserve the body. She meets Doug Blackwell David Morrissey , a teacher from the nearby town of Haven, who asks Katherine to find out why Haven's river has turned red. The locals believe this is a biblical plague caused by a girl, Loren McConnell AnnaSophia Robb , who they believe killed her older brother in the river.
The question really should be addressed to Warner Brothers, the studio releasing this schlock-o-rama, and all those clever little gnomes in Hollywood who keep trying to squeeze boffo opening weekends from even the lamest horror premise. Katherine turns feasts into fish, wine into H2O and her findings into a lesson plan for her students at Louisiana State University, where she works side-by-side with the crucifix wearing-and-fondling Ben Idris Elba. When the film opens, the miracle-busters are investigating an event in Santiago, Chile, where the mumbling, mesmerized faithful have taken to adoring the decades-old corpse of a priest that, for one worshiper, is literally finger-licking good. Case closed. Not so the movie, which goes on and on, largely due to a smiling stranger, Doug Blackwell David Morrissey , who brings Katherine news of strange doings in a secluded bayou town called Haven. Armed with their lab equipment, computers and his-and-hers faith and doubt, the miracle-busters plunge first into a river that has recently turned the color of blood and then into a fast-rising tide of nonsense involving motorcycle toughs and Satanic love, shaky accents and sweaty sheets. There are falling frogs, buzzing flies, crawling lice and really mad cows. Alas, there are also five other plagues.
