The Reaping (Stephen Hopkins, 2007)

The swampy Deep South gets a hard time, doesn't it? It serves as a purpose-built repository for inbred racist satanists from one schlock thriller to another, and The Reaping is squarely in this tradition. This time, it's Hilary Swank wading circumstantially and thespically deeper and deeper out of her depth through the bayou as a lapsed missionary turned paranormal investigator, increasingly unable to deny the presence of the Fallen One behind the unfolding of a series of apocalyptic biblical plagues. Idris Elba and David Morrissey huff along in support under the considerable burden of their southern accents. It's basically The Omen muddled in geographical translation and losing most of its menace in the process.

4/10