The Reaping - Phelous

[@graemesmith6721]

Mark Twain once said: "Fact is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." The writers of this movie clearly never read Twain.

[@Slashthekitsune]

"A child born of a dream, huh? So what, is she giving birth to Tidus?" Tidus: "I hate you."

[@Ultrabalor]

It's actually "Was she giving birth to Tidus?"

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

A HA HA HA HA HA HA A HA HA HA HA HA HA

[@TheLadyofthewest]

I always come back to this video just for the record player gag, gets me every time

[@thomasdasilva1464]

Phelous, you are one of my favorite KZbin personalities because you don't try to be a KZbin personality, you're just a cool dude making good videos. Thanks for being real.

[@shadowdramon01]

Dear Idris Elba: you are too good of an actor. Please read the damn scripts before accepting a paycheck. Thank you One of your biggest fans.

[@samtownend6744]

Unfortunately he seems to do a lot just for money e.g. this, Ghost Rider 2 and Virgin Media adverts

[@lucasdavis1964]

He seemed to be the best character in this movie though.

[@thegogglehero3629]

Gokai Silver Gold mode!

[@christallh24]

Well, he was recently in 'Cats'. So, yeah, OP plea still applies.

[@geoentronecromancer]

What do you mean, Idris Elba isn't....!!! HOLY CRAP, that IS Idris Elba! This is one of my favorite reviews, but I never realized it was him, since I didn't really become a fan of his until a few years after the review premiered. Rad!

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

I remember seeing the poster for this with the tagline "What hath God wrought?" and all I could think was, "That is...a WAY better title!"

[@ubersteigen]

"There's a Mr.Death here at the door, He says he's here about the 'reeaping'!??"

[@trtx84]

Idris Elba being in this was a surprise, but also the Governor from TWD!

[@TUPRBABE]

As a David Morrissey (TWD's The Governor) fan ... with a sense of humor ... it's nice to see a good ol' fashioned skewering of a not-so-good pre-TWD film. Love this, Phelous!

[@EmperorKrow]

Holy crap, thats the Governer!!!

[@xerxstirb]

2:06 Chemistry doesn't work that way. DMSO, as others have commented, just makes chemical compunds to be absorbed through the skin. Ethanol and methanol are just different kinds of alcohol, one being a recreational drug and one being poisonous. Benzene is the chemical that makes gas stations smell that way. Fumes of it would only be hallucinogenic if it had an extremely high concentration. It's essentially like sniffing shoddy moonshine at a gas station. It's really poisonous, but would only possibly give you hallucinations if you poured it in a bag and inhaled it for a extended period of time. It would probably also make you heavily brain damaged. It's really, really basic chemistry. Like, they could have said "dihydrogen monoxide gave these people hallucinations", because water does that now; the bad writing demands it.

[@MachineD3vil]

“CHEMISTRY DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!!!”

[@katoffeevhs9798]

the first reference i've found to DMSO as a drug was 1986, dead kennedys made a song about it being used as a hallucinogen.

[@TheKML777]

11:14 Hmm, not bad but still couldn't beat Mark Wahlberg's The Happening moment.

[@yourmother7052]

What? Nooo.

[@jeroenvanwees3250]

5:11 Guy: is it blood? Me: Hope it's not chriss's blood! :P

[@SammEater]

+Jeroen van Wees Did. You. Just. Take. A. Look. At. This?

[@arbiter11171]

That was almost a reference sandwich! Too bad Phelous's didn't think of it though.

[@davidspring4003]

"How does disproving miracles go with being a believer?" well, God says to test ALL spirits, to see if they are who they say they are, or else they will lead to you being deceived.

[@AmaryInkawult]

David Spring yeah, false ministers and liars are a thing. Humans are inherently flawed as animals and we're incredibly diverse as a species in body and mind.

[@TheBonkleFox]

meanwhile in 2018 we get people like kent hovind who say "don't think, just believe!"

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

David Spring Nighttime for morons.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@TheBonkleFox Because if you think, you might start asking questions that people like Hovind can't answer. Can't have that.

[@GOFFBITZH666]

@@graemesmith6721 Or even more, not give any money to televangelists and other who use religion as a means to swindle money from the desperate and devout!

[@EctoBabble]

I'm so happy to see all your videos again! I missed the heavy sarcasm and meta jokes - even though I've seen all your old videos I can't help but rewatch them when they get uploaded to youtube!

[@Tareltonlives]

These feels like if Pureflix made a horror film

[@Tareltonlives]

Or if someone actually LIKED the Wicker Man remake. Only less misogynist.

[@bluezebra8675309]

is- is that the girl from terabithia?

[@MSTe98]

bluezebra8675309 I guess her parents realized that she truly WAS an angel, faked her death, and sent her to this backwoods town to stop (sorta) the apocalypse.

[@oddeyes9413]

Yes, that's Anna Sophia Rob.

[@knshinn2]

Ever wondered what the original The Wicker Man might be like if you removed all of the oddness, intentional humour, eroticism, unease, and outright overwhelming final horror - and then made the supernatural real and powerful rather than just an ambiguous belief that led people to do terrible things? Well, you'd end up with a film even worse than the remake of The Wicker Man - this film. Good job!

[@jaycorbett1662]

Or you would get the remake

[@megansimplystitch]

You are so right. The original Wicker Man was like stepping into a disconcerting alien world. The whole island seems to be on an acid trip. It left me with horrifying & deep seated sense of unease. I got none of that from The Reaping. This is a bad movie that is made of a collection of horror tropes & religious stereotypes.

[@m.a.packer5450]

I didn't think it was possible, but this movie is a slap in the face to religionists and atheists

[@piranhacupcake5154]

"We started our own religion where we kill all our second borns, so we're all first borns!" Did no one ever keep going after that? Do they kill their third borns too? what about forth borns? and fifth borns? So many questions!

[@latviandragon2718]

maybe that places has the 1 child policy

[@calebhelterbrand6306]

7:00 Holy crap, Idris Elba! What are you doing here!

[@Tom_TheDutchguy]

4:26 AARGH! it's the governor RUN!!!

[@TemmiePlays]

Wouldve called this one "The Phreaping"

[@reversalmushroom]

4:43-4:55 7:38-7:48 I don't know if you watch your videos after rendering to make sure they rendered correctly, but the audio desyncs here.

[@dragondaveltd1992]

16:00 Ladies and gentlemen, God! Are You Ready to Rock?!? *Rocking Heavy Music*

[@MforMovesets]

15:03 A Panda god?

[@TheWilderCat]

Abandon god, you probably knew that though and I'm just correcting you for making a joke. Kill me.

[@iamaunicorn1232]

Its Panda Christ! Panda Christ, Panda Christ, we all love Panda Christ. Hes a Panda and Jesus. Thank God he's Panda Christ.

[@tbonevideos23]

So much Phelous X_X

[@DeclanCorey]

Ohhhhh, yesssssss...

[@ewanedwards6822]

I swear to god if I see one more horror movie where a child just stands there and stares I'm going to use the open graves game to wish myself "back to when I didn't see the damn brat"

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

This just isn't the same without the locusts shouting at them to GEEEET OOOOUUUT! :P

[@10GaugeManiac]

The Reaping? I don't see any space squids or Commander Shepard.. This film is a plague sandwich! ... We'll bang, okay?

[@tomoliver2112]

I loved this movie.

[@dadobojart7895]

Huh. That is weird. I remember watching this movie as a kid with my family... And being the only one of my family to dislike this movie. Glad to see both of us have good taste, Phelous.

[@murdermusprime7065]

Could you review Frankenfish?

[@GoodOldGamer]

I miss this extremely sarcastic Phelous, lol.

[@MrZerothejedi]

You know I didn't see the movie but it would be nice if they explained WHAT miracle was being produced just by tripping out near preserved corpses...

[@PhantomShadow224]

I don’t know if this is a KZbin problem but it feels the the lip syncing goes out of sync at least one per video but in this one it’s happened 3 times.

[@cameronsprague101]

Phantomshadow224 it's a video encoding problem.

[@IamBlackToast]

Between the title and the burned-photo hooked cross, you missed a golden opportunity for a Blue Öyster Cult reference.

[@NebLleb]

"What if a stupid movie was made with the Ten Plagues of Egypt, but moved to modern times?" *_The Mummy._* (Yes, it takes place in the 1920s just after the first world war. Like I care. That movie is actually badass.)

[@BeigomaStudios053]

what the hell is the governor from the walking dead doing in this?!?

[@planescaped]

And why the hell is his Scottish/Irish accent slipping through at 6:54? Oh yeah, the director wasn't very good...

[@TheSefirosu200x]

planescaped His accent sounded to me like the Southern US accent he uses for The Governor the whole time in this.

[@CanItAlready]

Which I heard the cast of Steel Magnolias long ago refer to as the "plantation accent". His attempt at it anyway.

[@leannewho664]

For some reason, that clip of Doug whacking Phelous always makes me want to hit something...

[@TheBonkleFox]

years later this is a mood

[@mountbuckekreative4044]

Hillary really should have kept on secretly feeding birds on school rooftops.

[@Tareltonlives]

Plague on, plague off

[@8mad]

Personally I think God killed the priest since he was trying to get Katherine to kill his angel.

[@oddeyes9413]

That could be a possibility.

[@GOFFBITZH666]

What about the rest of the cult who they wanted to kill ever since the boy tried to kill her himself?

[@zmbdog]

But he'd already told her to. Killing him after the fact was pointless and affected nothing.

[@ShotgunLlama]

11:15 Are you sure that's not Mark Wahlberg?

[@smb-c3po]

Another great video, Phelan. Oh, well, at least they tried!

[@johngleeman8347]

I don't understand. This movie came out in 2007. Could they not be bothered to look up what microorganisms actually cause red tides on Wikipedia? XD

[@MachineD3vil]

2007? Why does it look awfully grimy and dirty?

[@wugglesx]

the hook looks sorta like a sickle combined with a broken anhk

[@renamon5658]

Horror movies that begins with the. Like the culling the reaping have no sense and feel rushed

[@scitechian]

Just commenting for engagement, as I genuinely, unironically love this film.

[@thatindiandude4602]

4 videos in a day :O

[@ChrisKunix]

This movie feels like it has the idea of what Silent Hill's Order had but its version was totally bullshit.

[@kinnikufan]

Wow, so much Phelous today and it isn't even Phay Day! Although it is Phriday...

[@eldsrams7526]

Did no one else notice that they ripped off the old lady scene from the happening with marky mark?

[@dresden]

"Would try to impede god's miracle" is what the old lady said in Spanish😒. She doesn't mention the devil 🤨

[@gracekim1998]

Wait I recognise the guy driving the car (Hemdiall). What is HE doing here?! *Sees specific clip* let's torch that monster! 16.7.22

[@richardgadberry8398]

17:05 "You...probably shouldn't laugh anymore."

[@Volosous]

100/10 on that audio syncing

[@thunderchild1083]

If you like Blue Oyster Cult or watch Supernatural then you’ll know that the symbol shown at the beginning is a mirrored version of the blue oyster cult logo

[@eldsrams7526]

Also the main bad guy is actually British in real life, and I think his accent changes a bit

[@RedShirtRemyStarship]

You mean the guy who played The Governor did the bad stuff? I would not have guessed that.

[@ericenglish8939]

that symbol is the same as the symbol blue oyster cult uses

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT GUY'S ACCENT? IS HE SOUTHERN OR BRITISH OF WHATEVER!? And speaking of the whole first born thing, I have a question. Okay so according to the scripture, the first born of every Egyptian child was to be taken but what if you were the SECOND child to a man who remarried? Technically you would not be HIS first born but the first born to the woman yet still, you are the second in the line so......does that even count? WHY AM I THINKING OF THIS?

[@blackjack659]

y'know i'd never actually seen that picture of annasophia robb on the computer, but that actually did freak me out a little. she's actually probably the best thing in this whole movie, and i'm not just talking about the picture.

[@carlosarmandovegavazquez7038]

This movie features the female version of "What? No" from The Happening.

[@Faelyke]

Shame on you, you missed a perfectly 'the happening' joke. In all seriousness, great vid as always.

[@panbat2367]

7:45 the supernatural force of your mouth not matching up to your words in sink.

[@awesometomling]

Oh Swank you for this review Phelous hurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhur

[@MundyMedics]

Oooo David Morrissey your voice makes my loins quiverrrrrr

[@sta3po]

Isn't that symbol at the beginning the symbol for Blue Oyster Cult?

[@handsomebrick]

I like how right after she investigates a fake religious thing that makes people hallucinate, she doesn't even think for a second that she's being confused somehow into seeing some extremely unimaginative and stupid Biblical curses, even when she starts losing the ability to separate her dreams from reality.

[@YMasterS]

Honestly, that's pretty realistic. Most prople who use hallucinations to debunk claims of the supernatural or paranormal do so to avoid having to explain something. Easier to say evidence or experience is fake than to explain it. Since hallucination is being used as an explanation purely to maintain the investigator's world view, their world view shifting through first hand experience would result in the dropping of hallucination as a defence of that world view.

[@averagegamecritic]

Multi layered dreams can happen. There was a man that had over a dozen layers. But it is just a cliché here.

[@Blackwolfninja89]

4:43-4:55 I noticed you were a bit out of sync there.

[@Avellania]

Given that the whole town consisted only of firstborns no family ever had more than two children? If there had been any thirdborns or fourthborns around the last plague wouldn't have worked.

[@ashwinnair1092]

I'll play devil's advocate (heh...) and say that Lauren does know that there is a demon baby inside Catherine and "we'll have to take care of him" might be being used in it's euphemistic form of "we'll have to kill him." It would still be a badly written line, but it would be slightly better than the alternative.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

That's what phelous was implying.

[@ashwinnair1092]

@@fightingmedialounge519 17:58-18:09 What Phelous says here implies that he thinks Lauren actually wants to take care of the baby.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

@@ashwinnair1092 he also says they could just as easily abort the baby if she doesn't want it.

[@ashwinnair1092]

@@fightingmedialounge519 LOL that's not what I'm arguing about here. Phelous is saying that Lauren doesn't know that Catherine's baby is the devil, despite being an Angel, because of the "We'll have to take care of him" line. I'm saying that maybe the line was a euphemism, and she DOES know that it's a devil baby. I'm arguing about the plot hole regarding Lauren's lack of knowledge, not Catherine's decision for the baby.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

@@ashwinnair1092 what? Your previous specificaly states you think implying she wanted to keep but now that I pointed out that wasn't the case you backtrack, and even if that wasn't you trying to say, your second doesn't accurately access phelous problems, he thinks the angel should known earlier, he thinks it's stupid that the the major event this movies is about only happens at the very end, and he thinks the baby problem is easily solvable, those are his problems.

[@eddiedingle767]

David Morrissey’s Southern accent really sounds like he’s doing an Elvis impersonation. Though I prefer Bruce Campbell’s in Bubba Ho Tep, it’s a good impersonation, shit Southern accent though

[@DarthAzabrush]

This probably pre-date both the running gag and Idris Elba being well known but 5:49 stupid surprised Idris Elba!

[@mathieuleader8601]

Ian Warner I wonder if he watches it on boxset

[@MadamFoogie]

Oh hey, the Governor!

[@Tay-ky3fi]

You're kind of like CinemaSins without all the annoying and extremely loud dings .. thank you!

[@mevicky100]

Phelous, if by chance you're reading comments still, PLEASE tell me where the siren sfx from 1:32 came from! You've used it in a bunch of reviews, especially in connection with Silent Hill, but as far as I can tell that's not the Silent Hill siren

[@adrianlloydhoffer]

4:27 Wait...is that the Governor?

[@Bilingord]

It is just me or that is the Blue Oyster Cult Simbol??????

[@ctdaniels7049]

Press 6 for Phelous Air Pump game.

[@chthulhu9623]

10/10 voice sync

[@terranman4702]

God killed the first born with fireball attacks? I remember some creepy angel of death in the old testament walking the streets.

[@AmaryInkawult]

Badjoke Maker the morons who wrote this shit didn't do their research on atheists or Christians.

[@TheBonkleFox]

@@AmaryInkawult this was probably just someone's D&D campaign that they decided to turn into a movie & the priest of the party didn't give a shit where they threw their spells, explaining all the people who weren't in on the satan cult dying.

[@iKadaj]

"boys don't cry" for me is absolutely the most terrifying, disturbing, traumatizing, literally-nightmare-inducing film i have ever seen in my entire life. i only saw it once when i was 15, missed the beginning and it was on tv so it was probably edited like most things are compared to their dvd releases. i'm in my 30s now and still have never gotten over it. i have extreme disabling agoraphobia because i'm so scared what happened in that movie will happen to me (i live in a small town like where that took place and it was based on an actual real person/true story). i can't stand to see anything with hilary swank in it at all because it reminds me of that movie which then gets me all triggered and upset all over again. i can only watch this review because you're making fun of her the whole time, and i am really, really glad you didn't make any jokey references to her boys don't cry film. other people would have taken advantage of that connection (fucking nostalgia critic would have) because i donno, transgender jokes make you cool or something. i'd say it's because you just didn't know about it but you know every movie that everybody is in when you do reviews and i'd rather just give you credit for not being the kind of asshole that everyone else on the internet is these days. like how brokeback mountain is something that people like to make jokey references too and the guy who got fucking slaughtered in that and then his wishes were even honored after his death played in october sky which took place in WVa where i live so that one did my mental health no favors either. these movies are NOT funny just because "lol gay people" or "lol crossdressing" or whatever just because straight people never have to worry about it happening to them. anyway thanks for choosing not to be the same kind of prick as so many other people are. because these "jokes" are so common, your channel ends up being the only thing i can turn on for background noise throughout the day without getting nervous because i know you won't do this shit even in new uploads i haven't seen yet. i think i already left a comment rambling about this sometime before but whatever i'm saying it again because you had a perfect opportunity to be a stereotypical internet jackass with this film but didn't and i still appreciate things like that. i'm done now. carry on.

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Thank you for making this comment airing your grievances toward those kinds of jokes and mentioning a movie I’ve never heard of that traumatized you in your youth, it probably isn’t easy to admit a movie messed with you emotionally or mentally like that. I for one had a similar experience with a movie called “the girl next door.” I watched it in highschool thinking it was that movie about the playboy bunny girl living next door and I was in the mood for a PG 13 raunchy romantic comedy, instead I watched what I think is a true story about a poor teenage girl being sexually and physically tortured to the point of mutilation by her own aunt and male cousins, it left me feeling physically sick to my stomach like I ate bad sushi, and to this day I’ve never watched it again and I still think about it sometimes. That movie was a little too real for me too.

[@michaelkeha]

This is one of those movies where it seems that christianity is evil and athiests are idiots what's next the end of the movie the prophet comes down and saves everyone or something.

[@KyleSupremeo]

what game is that next to Castlevainia?

[@handsomebrick]

Countdown Vampires for PS1

[@Aqua-Marine-UK_1991]

spawn did a better job with the devil child

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

David Morrissey is in this movie.

[@rorylumley4727]

dream pregnecy is serious just ask post crisis aqua man he was the product of a dream pregnecy with a wizard

[@flusteredfloof42]

Ok really? You passed up the opportunity to title the Title Card as "The Pheling"?

[@SellavinAtoms]

The ending was just bad it's supposed to be based on a book right I just don't get it.

[@SpaceRaptor510]

This movie set in America isn't it? Why wasn't the Health Dept. or the EPA investigating this versus some random collage professor.

[@ChocolatecatGP]

How the hell did he burn alive the room wasn't made of wood

[@RaphBlade7]

*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] "This movie better have plenty of REAPING of either SOULs, SUGAR CANE, WHEAT, or heck SIMs 4 Wild Prairie Grass preferably by DEATH himself!" 11:51 - "BOO! Seriously this movie is really reaching to justify its name! Seriously RIVER OF BLOOD or BLOOD SACRIFICE would have been way more on the nose! If your gonna call your movie, THE REAPING there better be some reaping going on, not this half @$$e$ name dropping crap! At least Phelous didn't dignify it with a HE SAID IT as this movie doesn't deserve it!" 12:21 - "See even the main character thought that name drop was so lame that she left that now useless waste of an exhibition dump & failed name dropper BURN TO DEATH for his SIN against CINEMA & the sacred art of REAPING! Also with him dying this way DEATH can at least reap his soul (too bad we don't get to see it)!" 12:55 - "Mmm, them dere Cajun crows in the Bayou gonna be EATEN good tonight! Seriously to you humans this many locusts is a plague, but to any insect loving bird its a smorgasbord & all you can eat buffet!" 13:07 - "The ol' reliable Shotgun ain't gonna cut it with Locust plagues! You need a freakin entire MURDER OF CROWs and either a fully armed MINIGUN or a fully armed 50 Cal equipped with tracer rounds!"

[@KewlImp]

So I think everyone pretending is a good idea. I think this mostly because they wouldn't be able to predict everything she did. It would ruin your plans if she stumbled into a secretive meeting in which everyone is seemingly hoping to she'll kill the girl.

[@multitudeofidols]

0:30 Bitchin' Blue Oyster Cult album cover art.

[@chadcastagana9181]

So this movie is a cross between The Exorcist, The Heretic, The Believers, and Rosemary's Baby?

[@Tareltonlives]

Fisteria? What was she saying? There's a big variety of algae that can turn water toxic, their color varying. What our heroine is going at is called Red Tide, caused by any number of dinoflagellates, diatoms and cyanobacteria. Since this is fresh water, it's from cyanobacteria like Gymnodinium catenatum.

[@Tareltonlives]

Of course, other than the random plagues, there's really nothing like this in any Jewish, Christian or Muslim scripture. So it doesn't even stick with the theme, and throws in a random Satanic cult and antichrist child. It's just a dumb mess like most American Christian media.

[@badjokemaker3051]

So will there be a sequel called "The Abortion"?

[@IRex-wm9pd]

The Morning After...

[@oddeyes9413]

The guy who came to get Swank... IS THE GOVERNOR FROM THE WALKING DEAD! 😱