History Film / TheReaping

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Doug tries to kill Katherine during his villainous breakdown.]]

** [[FridgeLogic This might be avoided]] if the entire cult were poly and the firstborn of each ''pairing'' was allowed to live, but then why would any mother choose to have two children with the same father?
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Katherine adopts Loren and then discovers she's pregnant at the end. Subverted as she realizes to her horror that she was actually drugged and raped by Doug and that her child may be the antichrist and doomed second born]].

* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler: As Doug begs Katherine to kill Loren before the next plague as he is a firstborn, flashbacks center on Father Costigan describing how the firstborn were spared of the satanic sacrifices. A pregnant woman not caring at all about her second child's gender. And Loren's mother asking Katherine why doesn't she kill her daughter.]]

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Doug notes that he and Katherine both lost the people they loved (Doug lost his wife, and Katherine lost her daughter and husband in Sudan). And that their personal losses drove them to lose their faith. [[spoiler Doug actually converted to satanism not long after. And uses this once again to try to get Katherine to convert to satanism alongside him and the townspeople of Haven]].

* LawOfInverseFertility: Doug mentions that he and his wife tried to conceive a son but were unsuccessful and his wife passed away from her cancer not long after. [[spoiler: Katherine easily becomes pregnant after she was raped by Doug one time in an unconscious state]].

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Doug notes that he and Katherine both lost the people they loved (Doug lost his wife, and Katherine lost her daughter and husband in Sudan). And that their personal losses drove them to lose their faith. [[spoiler Doug actually converted to satanism not long after]].

** Katherine's erotic dream depicts a steamy sex scene between her and Doug.

** [[spoiler: Once it comes to light that Katherine was actually drugged and raped by Doug, the sex scene becomes this]].

** [[spoiler: At the end, as Katherine learns she is pregnant, she realizes that Doug actually raped her and impregnated her with the antichrist]].

-->'''[[spoiler: Doug]]:''' The whole of Haven used to pray to God on this spot. You know how He answered their prayers? With floods and devastation. He abandoned them, so they abandoned God. My family introduced them to the true Lord. A powerful Lord, who hears his people's prayers. You were ordained and you turned your back on God just like we did. That's why we chose you. Only a servant of God can kill his angel. You remember what your God did to you in the Sudan? What about your daughter, huh? Now that...that is your God. Katherine... (offers her the knife)

* ShutUpKirk: [[spoiler: Doug delivers one to Katherine.]]

** Doug telling Katherine he came from a line of only children. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the end as the last of the plagues is death of the firstborns]].

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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Loren is an angel sent by God to destroy evil and the townspeople people of Haven are actually delusional satanic cultists out to stop her]].

* OrWasItADream: Katherine wakes up after a steamy dream involving her and Doug and one too many nightmares only to find that she tracked sand into the kitchen. Flashbacks later reveal that [[spoiler: the supposed consensual sex between her and Doug was actually Doug drugging and raping the intoxicated Katherine to impregnate her with the antichrist]].

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler: It's revealed Doug took the opportunity to rape Katherine while she was passed out from the drink he gave to her]].

** Doug and Katherine's steamy sex scene.
** Katherine spends most of her time in a white dress or a tight tank top and pants which are focused on by the camera.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Because Brody tried to kill Loren, an angel sent from God, God punished Brody by having his body suffer rapid decay to death]].

* BullyingADragon: The townspeople of Haven going up against a little girl with evil supernatural abilities with their guns goes about as well as one would expect. As the townspeople of Haven [[spoiler: and her older brother Brody]] found out the hard way when Loren sends her biblical plagues on them. Justified since [[spoiler: Loren is actually an angel sent from God to punish them]].

* CainAndAbel: Doug tells Katherine that Loren killed her brother by the river. [[spoiler: Flashbacks reveal that her older brother Brody actually tried to kill her as part of a satanic ritual sacrifice]].

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[spoiler: It's revealed Doug took the opportunity to rape Katherine when she was passed out from the drink he gave to her]].

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: As flashbacks show, Brody attempted to kill Loren and stabs her. Only for her wound to miraculously heal and his body to rapidly decay from evil.]]
-->'''Father Costigan:''' ''(voiceover, as [[spoiler: Loren stands in the bloody river near her attacker's dead body]])'' [[spoiler: At the height of their power, God shall send forth an angel to destroy them.]]

-->'''Father Costigan:''' ''(narrating voiceover, as [[spoiler: Doug rapes an unconscious and drugged Katherine in her sleep; when she previously thought she had awoken from an erotic dream]])'' For all their sacrifice, they shall reap a perfect child -- a second-born, who upon coming into adulthood shall be reborn with the eyes of Satan.

-->'''Father Costigan:''' ''(narrating voiceover, as [[spoiler: Doug rapes an unconscious and drugged Katherine in her sleep and she previously thought she had awoken from an erotic dream)'' For all their sacrifice, they shall reap a perfect child -- a second-born, who upon coming into adulthood shall be reborn with the eyes of Satan.

** Everyone in the town of Haven has two children or more. Some of the women have a toddler with another one on the way just weeks apart.
** When Katherine asks one of the pregnant women if she's having a boy or a girl, she nonchalantly replies "Doesn't matter". [[spoiler: This is because the townspeople are preparing to sacrifice their second born]].