The Remaining

Truly dreadful, it's an hour and 23 minutes you won't get back! Save yourself some time and suffering and just rub rock salt in your eyes!

Unlike others I did know this was a Christian film company before I watched it. Saw and joined the FB page awhile back and have been looking forward to seeing it for awhile. Let me state I am not a practicing Christian. I have some background though and know the book of Revelations. In fact I used to say it would make a great horror movie.

I was impressed by the movie as a whole. There was a bit of preachiness to it but I mean it's a movie based on a book of the bible, how could it not be preachy?? I didn't expect to recognize any of the actors, figure they would draw from some secret database of Christian actors so I was surprise to see Alexa Vega (Repo/Devils Carnival) and the kid who played Aaron on Vampire Diaries. They both did well as did the other actors. Much better then I expected. As for the writing there were a few times something felt off but how can I fault the writer, I mean it was god right? I guess they had to condense for the length of a movie because if I remember right all this happens in 7 years of trials & tribulations in the bible. Also thought a nice touch would have been the survivors having to accept a mark in order to get food and supplies. Overall though it held together and kept me entertained. Judging it as a "Christian Horror" I'd give it a 9/10 because it's much better done and less preachy then anything else claiming that title. Judging just as a Horror or Disaster movie I'd give it a 6/10 so I'm going to average it out and say 7.5

Confirms one reason I am not religious- terrorizing people because they don't believe in you or praise you. Seriously/ it just helped me double down on no religion although to be fair that was me previously.

The movie itself was okay but the message is a lot. Good people- flawed- but good- fighting for their lives and terrorized. So yes that is entertaining but the acting and the intent is what bothers me. Believe what you want but in what other situation would you ever follow or think someone is good if this is how they handle rejection. Many men and women have died for others- they did not demand you believe in them or else.

A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."The Remaining" (PG-13 - 2014 - DVD)

Sub-Genre: POV/Paranormal My Score: 5.4

Cast=4 Acting=4 Plot=8 Ending=4 Story=6 Scare=5 Jump=3 F/X=7 POV=7 Creep=6

Friends gather at a wedding, but the celebration is shattered by terrifying apocalyptic events forcing them to examine life, love and faith as they must choose between redemption and survival.

"I shouldn't be here. I went to Church...I did everything right." So they combine a disaster movie with the rapture and make it found footage...seems like an intense movie. I saw a lot of promise and the POV stuff was solid...I think the acting and the ending killed it for me. So when I hit eject on my player, I could only give it a meh. It's not a horrible watch...just not one to hunt for.

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.