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The Plague (2006)

Ten years have passed since the world's children fell into a coma. Tonight they're waking up and all hell is breaking loose. An unholy battle between the generations is being waged, and time is not on the side of adults.

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Jean Raynor
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Kip (as Josh Close)
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Sheriff Cal Stewart (as John Connolly)
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Claire
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deputy Nathan Burgandy
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Nurse Hansen
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In 1983 all children aged nine years or less fall into a coma at the same time. The children remain in the coma for the next 10 years and all children born during this time are born into the same state. Ten years later Tom Russel, who was imprisoned after killing a man in a fight, is released from prison and returns to his home town where his older brother has a son in a coma. That night all the children wake up but they are hellbent on killing all the adults. It soon becomes apparent that the children share a sort of collective consciousness and as one learns they all learn. As they get smarter they learn to disable motor vehicles and eventually to use firearms. A group of survivors, led by Tom and Jean, try to escape to the safety of a base located 60 km outside the town. Written by GPSJane

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Rated R for horror violence/gore and language | See all certifications »

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5 September 2006 (USA)  »

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Le fléau selon Clive Barker  »

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When the four are standing at the bridge and the woman fires a final round into the "zombie" on the ground, there is clearly another person standing behind the couple by the truck when there shouldn't be anybody. See more »

Quotes

[last lines]
Tom Russell: [as he sacrifices himself so Jean can escape] I'm ready!
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References Village of the Damned (1960) See more »

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Zombie movie with a twist. Pretty good.
25 December 2006 | by See all my reviews

This movie started really well and, as others noticed in their comments, ended rather obscurely. One could say that if you mix Children of the Damned with Night of the Living Dead, you get this movie, which would have made a reasonably scary and interesting film. However, they added a bit of Steinbeck leftism, a bit of obscure clerical writings, probably Catholic only, and crashed into an uninteresting and meaningless ending.

That doesn't mean it wasn't good. The start has that nice feel of Night of the Living Dead (the black and white version, the good one). The characters are presented and developed rather well. However, after a while, they all start dying stupidly and only show that using emotions in time of crisis is plain idiotic. After all, this is the only moral in this movie.

Bottom line: a film with a great potential turns out to be an average movie.


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