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Source: Frasse Films

Call it the Rapture.

The Great Tribulation.

The culmination of the End Times.

The Final Conniption.

Judgement Day.

For when the Christian God calls His faithful home and Jesus comes again, believers of assorted stripes share some variant of one of these moments of truth. No more one sinner at a time, take a number, stand on the trap door in front of Saint Peter (or en masse in front of some lesser official), and face the music for everything you’ve ever done. This is IT. The great sorting day is NIGH!

For the sake of tonight’s Dark Sentiment, we’ll call it The Cataclysm, and present it to you tonight in the form of a sixteen minute motion picture written and directed by Alexander Frasse.

Released in November 2019, the film was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Dark Comedy at the Indie Short Fest 2020, and I will leave it to you, Goode Reader, to judge for yourself how much comedy you can find in the darkness. Perhaps as an accompaniment, a chewy Merlot to wash down the kind of dark chocolate wherein the bitterness thoroughly overruns the sweet.

The synopsis:

A small religious family has been told by their local televangelist that a great cataclysmic event will wipe out all life on earth at the stroke of midnight. But when the night comes and goes without incident they are forced to confront their beliefs head on.

And now, the SIN-opsis for you to ruminate upon until next time …