Synopsis
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
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Cast
- Hilary SwankKatherine
- David MorrisseyDoug
- Idris ElbaBen
- AnnaSophia RobbLoren McConnell
- Stephen ReaFather Costigan
- William RagsdaleSheriff Cade
- John McConnellMayor Brooks
- David JensenJim Wakeman
- Yvonne LandryBrynn Wakeman
- Samuel GarlandWilliam Wakeman
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Philadelphia Inquirer
An effectively unsettling mix of Southern gothic and Old Testament hugger-mugger, with shades of "The Exorcist" and even "Rosemary's Baby" thrown in. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
One either likes this sort of thing or not. Even fans might not buy the ending in which more people get wiped out than in Hurricane Katrina. - 60
Variety
Revisiting the book of Exodus in a feverish Southern-gothic context, this lurid, often ludicrously entertaining slab of Biblesploitation builds an earnest case for spirituality in a skeptical age. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Swank and Elba work hard for their paychecks, but Rea quite literally phones in his performance. - 38
ReelViews
It's hard to say what is more responsible for the film's utter failure: Hopkins direction, the editing, or the screenplay. The result is such a muddle that one assumes each aspect deserves part of the blame. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
No belief on earth can rescue Swank from a film that's a chain of disaster chintz masquerading as a sermon. - 30
Village Voice
Those two age-old foes--science and blind faith--tango yet again in this noxious slice of Biblical horror about a series of Old Testament plagues being visited upon a Louisiana bayou backwater. - 30
Austin Chronicle
Pardon the pun, but audiences will reap little from this satanic backwoods juju thriller.
