Rapture, Rapture everywhere! With The Leftovers almost finished its first season on HBO, it turns out we may have another Rapture story to tide us over until the Left Behind reboot comes out October 3. A couple of trailers for a movie called The Remaining, which opens September 5, have popped up on my radar, and you can see the newer, longer one at the top of this post.
The Remaining is produced by Affirm Films, the same “faith-based” branch of Sony Pictures that had a hand in Heaven Is for Real and Moms’ Night Out. The only actor I recognize is Alexa Vega, who starred in all four Spy Kids films as well as the later Robert Rodriguez films Machete Kills and Sin City: A Dame to Kill for.
Based on the footage here, the film looks to me like a mishmash of Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity. A post at Big Hollywood gushes that the film dramatizes the horrors of the end times “in gory detail” — and it also claims that the Rapture and all that follows it are spelled out in the Bible, but, um, they aren’t.
A part of me is also inclined to caution anyone against trusting a “Christian” film that refers to the Book of “Revelations”, plural. It’s Revelation, singular.
But hey, I’ll give The Remaining this much, at least: the general horror-movie mayhem it depicts looks marginally more interesting than the sight of Nicolas Cage trying to land a plane in the most recent Left Behind trailer:
The Remaining isn’t the only “faith-based” film coming out September 5. The Identical, about an Elvis impersonator and his long-lost twin brother, is also coming out that day. The Song, which reimagines the biblical story of Solomon as a story about modern-day country-music stars, comes out a few weeks later, on September 26. And then, as mentioned above, Left Behind will come out October 3.
You can watch an earlier, shorter teaser for The Remaining here:
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