The Reaping Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

The seeds of most Biblical horror movies are sown in the Book of Revelations; The Reaping at least gets marks for originality for springing from Exodus.Read the full review

The Reaping is Bible camp, pure and simple. And for bad-movie lovers, it's manna from heaven.Read the full review

The only remotely notable thing about this particular jumble of boos, bangs and door creaks...is that it tries to wed the horror trend with the heated-up God market.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

No belief on earth can rescue Swank from a film that's a chain of disaster chintz masquerading as a sermon.Read the full review

If only The Reaping had the decency to be coherent.Read the full review

Although The Reaping' borrows elements from classics of the genre -- rips them off might be more accurate -- it fails to build the psychological tension that made them so creepily good.Read the full review