5/27/2023 0 Comments Left behind series in order![]() ![]() The Thief movies concern the Rapture, a purported time in Christian theology when all believers - living and deceased - will ascend to heaven to kick it with Jesus before his eventual Second Coming. ![]() It’s been a long, alarming, and stupid road to get here, but, obviously, that’s part of the fun. In this final post-apocalyptic chapter, the series reaches surprisingly Romero-esque heights of dystopian horror. ![]() A car slams into a train and a Christian rebel guns down one of the Antichrist's henchmen as a minimalist Carpenter-like synth line throbs on the soundtrack. Prodigal Planet takes what’s come before - scare films that imagine what life on earth would be like after the Rapture - and thrusts it into high stakes action movie mode. The director’s previous three films slowly ratcheted up the grimness and grisly (mostly implied) violence, as those who refuse the mark of the beast are led to guillotines. Prodigal Planet is the final chapter of Thompson’s epic evangelical exploitation series, A Thief in the Night. Thompson’s Prodigal Planet, that’s a very dangerous place to be. More voices are heard - phony Russian accents through military radio static - and, then, an explosion. The disease is sin.” A somber voice intones these words over images of stars and biblical text. ![]()
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