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Ten years
ago, all children below the age of nine went
into a coma. Conceiving children has since then become
illegal and women are forced to do abortions - something
which might seem like an awful thing to do, but turned
out to be very clever since the children are ready to
wake up and kill anyone above the age of 19. A couple
of survivors have to fight their way to a safer place,
but what do you do when you have all the children in
the world against you?
A city filled with possessed children? Haven't I seen
this before? The Plague starts out with an interesting
premise where a father runs into a hospital with his
son who seems to be in some kind of shock, only to
find the hospital filled with kids in the same state
of condition. It turns out that all the kids below the
age of nine, in the entire world, have mysteriously
went into a coma. Flash forward to ten years later, the
kids are still in a coma and the future is looking
bright for the 19 and 20 year-old's. One day, all the
kids wake up and starts killing everyone around them.
There's no real explanation as to why all of this is
happening. I'm not sure why it's called "The Plague"
because it's not a contagious decease it revolves
around, it's basically just about a bunch of zombiefied
(yet, they're not dead) kids who kill people at random.
While I really dug the first 20 minutes or so, the
movie slowly became worse and worse until we were finally
treated with the most ridiculous ending ever. I'm all
for anti-climax’s, but this one didn't even
try to fake it.
When the two main characters consist of an alcoholic
man and a guy who's on parole, you know that something's
not right. The characters are all really dislikeable,
and we don't get to know enough about their backgrounds
to care for them. It doesn't help that James Van Der
Beek (from Dawson's Creek) plays the lead either. The
movie's key selling-point is that it was produced by
Clive Barker, but by the looks of it, Barker didn't
have a whole lot to do with this movie. There's just
nothing Barkery about it at all.
The Plague seemed to want to be the new Village Of The
Damned, but unfortunately, it felt more like a slightly
better version of "Children Of The Living Dead". Had
it not had decent production values, I don't think that
I would have been able to enjoy this at all. In other
words, it's not a very good movie, it's just decent
enough for you to be able to watch the entire thing
without falling asleep.
Some blood splatter, nothing to get worked up about.
The piano music was dreadful, it felt like the demonic,
coma kids were exploring an old piano.
The Plague is watchable, but just barely. It's got an
unoriginal story which was executed in a pretty terrible
way and the characters were all dislikeable. Unless
you're a James van der Beek fan (haha, who am I kidding
right?), I suggest you stay away from this plague.
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