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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Image of the Beast (1980)


Image of the Beast — Part 3 in the Rapture Series ("Thief in the Night")  The film picks up where A Distant Thunder left off. Patty Myers (played by Patty Dunning) is faced with the decision to either accept the mark of the beast or lose her head. Nearby, a woman named Kathy and David Michaels have just escaped a government detention center during the earthquake along with Kathy's young son Billy, and another woman named Leslie.

The group evades the soldiers of the government, called UNITE (United Nations Imperium for Total Emergency). Kathy, David, and Billy become separated from Leslie (with whom David reunites later) when a UNITE soldier shoots her below the shoulder, and David leaves her lying on the ground because she appears to be dead. The trio eventually meets up with the Rev. Matthew Turner. By this time Rev. Turner's church has been forced to close by the government, and he is living underground as a survivalist.

Kathy and David attempt to use their knowledge of computers to create a fake "mark of the beast" which will allow them to move about freely in society; David rationalizes this by saying they are not taking the real mark
 

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