The Seventh Sign (1988)

In Haiti, a mass of dead fish wash up on the beaches. In Israel, an entire city is wiped out in the desert ..... frozen by ice! The moon turns blood red. A boy (John Taylor, an actor with actual Downs Syndrome) kills his parents (who also happen to be brother and sister) because God told him to. In California, a pregnant housewife (Demi Moore) rents a room above her garage to a mysterious stranger (Jurgen Prochnow) who, along with a Vatican emissary (Peter Friedman) have an unusual interest in her and her unborn child. Directed by Carl Schultz (CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU), as far as apocalyptic end of the world movies go, this one isn't half bad. If you can get past the difficulty of accepting Demi Moore being the world's savior, you'll be rewarded with a taut race against time thriller. Oh sure, there's the far-fetched literal interpretations that seem inherent in these kinds of movies but if you can't accept them, then these movies don't work at all but does anyone take them seriously? The unsettling score is by Jack Nitzsche. With Michael Biehn (THE TERMINATOR) as Moore's husband, Manny Jacobs as a young Hasidic scholar, John Heard, Akosua Busia and Lee Garlington.