The Plague (film)

The Plague
Directed by	Hal Masonberg
Produced by	Clive Barker
Written by	Hal Masonberg Teal Minton
Starring	James Van Der Beek Ivana Miličević
Cinematography	Bill Butler
Editing by	Ed Marx
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	September 5, 2006
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Plague (also known as Clive Barker's The Plague) is a 2006 horror film directed by Hal Masonberg and written by Masonberg and Teal Minton; it was also co-produced by Clive Barker.^[1]

Plot

In 1983, simultaneously one day all of the world's children under the age of nine fall into a catatonic state. For the next ten years, every child who is born, is born in a state of catatonia. During this state, the children experience seizures twice a day and seem to develop super human strength. By 1993, all the children wake up, hellbent on killing all adults. Things get even worse when the adults realize the children have a sort of collective brain—what one learns, they all learn. The children get smarter by the hour, first they dismantle the engines in almost every car and set up road blocks to stop the adults from escaping. Then they learn how to use firearms. The children also take the souls of the ones they kill as a part of deliverance. The adults must find a way to stop them before it's too late.

Cast

• James Van Der Beek as Tom Russel
• Ivana Miličević as Jean Raynor
• Brad Hunt as Sam Raynor
• Joshua Close as Kip
• Brittany Scobie as Claire
• Bradley Sawatzky as Nathan Burgandy
• John P. Connolly as Sheriff Cal Stewart
• Dee Wallace as Nora
• John Ted Wynne as Dr. Jenkins
• Arne McPherson as David

Background

The story is somewhat similar to the 1960 British film Village of the Damned.

A prominent recurring image in the film is a dogeared copy of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. The plot of the film adopts ideas and structure from Steinbeck's novel, beginning with the release of Tom Russel from prison, returning to a home immersed in intolerable misery, stumbling from disaster to disaster, and culminating in a kind of hope for redemption that may some day compensate for the horror that has gone before.

Distribution

The Region 1 DVD was released September 5, 2006. In addition to this release, there is also an unreleased cut of the film known as The Plague: Writer's & Director's Cut.

References

1. ^ The Plague at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• The Plague at the Internet Movie Database
• The Plague at AllRovi
• The Plague Official Site