In The Plague all kids mysteriously fall into a coma, as do all children born afterwards. Ten years pass and the kids suddenly wake up and start killing people. That sounds OK doesn't it? Kids can be creepy as they were in Children of the Corn but not here, because this movie is dreadful.
The kids don't use any special mind powers, which might have been scary, instead they run around attacking people like mini-zombies for most of the film. I say people but the town seems to have six inhabitants and there is never any sign of the cops, the army or even other people..not even dead other people! The kids aren't scary and cheat by popping up (usually behind people) in their crappy makeup but somehow still not managing to look like anything other than a bunch of stage school hopefuls who are about to have their careers sunk by this howler of a bad movie.
I couldn't get over how the characters just teleport around locations with no sense of time or distance involved. Unfortunately for them so do the kids, they just pop up equally illogically. There's no continuity either. In one scene one of the little scrotes gets shot with a shotgun at point blank range. Result? He looks at his wound like the terminator, it clearly hasn't even hurt him. About ten minutes later a kid gets shot with a pistol from across the room and dies immediately. If the entire film wasn't utterly boring you'd probably not notice or at least overlook it.
If that was it then you'd just have a four star disappointment on your hands but no, the film has to go one better and throw a load of pseudo-religious garbage into the mix. The plot makes no sense and doesn't conclude properly. There's no resolution and you aren't left wondering "wow, what was that about" you are just left feeling like they didn't have an ending so they just called it the end and that was that.
I like Clive Barker and I like most of the films based on his writing but this is just terrible. I can't think of one good thing to say about it. Oh and the acting is crap too but you've probably guessed that already.
