The Plague.. a Clive Barker movie about a town being over ran by zombie-like teens, and a handful of people banning together to survive.

The film was produced by master of horror Clive Barker and stars James Van Der Beek (Varsity Blues, TV’s “Dawson’s Creek”) and Dee Wallace Stone (The Howling, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial)..

The movie kicks off with all the young children of the world slipping into coma mysteriously at the same time. The plot (yes there is a small one) then skips ahead about ten years to follow Tom Russell (Van Der Beek) as he returns home from prison. He was doing time in the slammer for killing a guy in a bar fight ( although Tom doesn’t look like the type to be in a bar fight ) . Tom returns home to find that the coma kids are finally waking up and they are really mad.

It appears that the ten years have served as an incubation period, and the kids (now teenagers) have developed “supernatural powers,” and are really thirsty for some good old fashion killing. Tom, his ex-wife Jean Raynor (Ivana Milicevic), his old buddy Sam Raynor (Brad Hunt) gather in a church with a few other townspeople (including a very short appearance by Stone who must have been added to give the film some horror credit). They slowly come under siege from all the teens, and are forced to fight it out to survive ( not much plot).

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much out of The Plague, but was rather disappointed in what the movie had to offer. With Barker’s involvement, I was hoping for something a little original and maybe a few moments that might make you want to jump or give the spine a tingle. Instead, I was bored and watched the film to the end knowing I'd regret it…