A 1988 American apocalyptic drama horror film directed by Carl Schultz.
A pregnant woman (Demi Moore) is struggling with nightmares where she miscarries. When she rents a room to a stranger (Jürgen Prochnow) a chain of events is set off.
The movie also stars Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, John Taylor, and Lee Garlington.
It was released on April 1, 1988.
Tropes:
- Apocalypse Maiden: Abby discovers that her child is destined to be born without a soul as the Guf (Hall of Souls) is empty. When she gives birth it will trigger the End Days, but she ultimately averts this by sacrificing her own life to refill the Chamber.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: God's criteria for saving humanity or not is not exactly easily understood, even by the protagonist who is an atheist woman and yet chosen to be the Apocalypse Maiden.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: God comes off as quite harsh and possibly nonsensical in their decisions, choosing to make a developmentally disabled man the "Last Martyr" because he was about to be executed for killing his parents (they were brother and sister).
- The End of the World as We Know It: Humanity is about to run out of souls for unborn children and this will trigger the end of the world.
- Flying Dutchman: The movie features a priest who turns out to be the legendary wandering Roman. He is forced to wander the earth until the second coming, and is thus trying to bring it about.
- Four Lines, All Waiting: It features a mysterious man who causes disasters by breaking little tokens, who stays with Abby and Russell, who are desperately trying to have a baby. Russell is also a lawyer for the case of a young man who killed his parents because he was a product of incest. These plots all come together when the couple tries to avert the young man's execution in order to stop an apocalypse.
- Religious Horror: It is a movie about the Christian apocalypse that there are seven signs being broken due to Heaven running out of souls for humans about to be born.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Roman soldier who has been cursed with immortality thinks so.
