The Remainings 2021

The film unfolds through a quiet montage that contrasts joyous memories with a present-day catastrophe, tracing the moment a couple’s wedding becomes the center of a rapidly unraveling crisis. Skylar and Dan’s celebration is captured in loving detail, even as a documentary filmmaker, Tommy Covington, records the event as a favor. An ordinary moment inside an elevator becomes a chilling turning point when Skylar’s Christian parents, and then many others, suddenly collapse with their eyes turned white. The main floor below is swept into chaos as people drop where they stand, and a tremor sends the four main characters scrambling to understand what is happening.

As they rush outside to seek safety, an unsettling, trumpet-like sound cuts through the noise, followed by thunderous claps and violent flashes of lightning. The city appears to burn from within as planes crash from the sky in spectacular, devastating fashion. In the wake of the disaster, Skylar proposes a sweeping theory: they may be witnessing the Rapture, the believers taken up and the unfaithful left behind. Tommy, more skeptical and grounded in science, dismisses the interpretation, but Skylar insists that they must move to a safe place because the danger will only intensify.

The couple’s group searches for shelter as monstrous hail pelts the town, driving them to seek refuge in a library. Inside, Skylar encounters Sam, and she clutches a Bible, reciting a verse she associates with the First Trumpet. With growing urgency, the group—now joined by a few others—makes for a nearby church, hoping to find sanctuary. On the way, a demonic creature snatches Skylar from Dan’s grasp, leaving him and the others to grapple with the shocking reality of what is happening to her. They reach the church and are welcomed into the sanctuary by Pastor Shay, who becomes their guide in a world where faith and fear collide.

Within the church, the group is joined by a tense mix of familiar faces and strangers. Jack is reunited with Allison, and Dan struggles to comfort Skylar, who bears the marks of the earlier assault but remains alive. Tommy asks for explanations, and Shay explains that they are indeed experiencing the Rapture in a world where the believers’ souls are taken, while their mortal bodies remain. A pregnant newcomer is admitted, and the baby is born but does not cry or breathe, signaling another tragedy tied to the cataclysm. Shay clarifies that his own salvation was delayed by a perceived lack of true faith, a point that only deepens the group’s fear as new threats infiltrate the church. An intruder’s attempt to enter is met with deadly force as a demonic entity continues to destabilize the sanctuary.

The situation grows direr as a video reveals Skylar’s capture and the frame-by-frame glimpse of a Fallen’s face, while the community processes the implications of the calamity and the eerie orchestration of the events, including the ominous “Fifth Trumpet” motif. As The Fallen begin to assault the church, Shay sacrifices himself to shield the rest, buying them precious time to regroup. Morning brings a harsh reality: Skylar dies from the injuries infused with demonic venom, leaving Dan heartbroken and furious at the divine mystery behind their suffering. He is overwhelmed by grief and is suddenly struck down in a brutal, otherworldly way, while Allison also loses her life as the danger outside closes in.

With heavy steps, the survivors push forward through the night toward a relief camp, determined to tend to Skylar and find medical aid. Sam shares a video showing Allison choosing God in the moments before she is killed, a stark reminder of the stakes at hand. Jack’s faith prompts a baptism, a moment of ritual solace that is cut short as demons descend upon the camp to the tune of a spoken, haunting hymn—Amazing Grace—attracting the malevolent forces to faith itself. One by one, the group’s members are confronted by the demonic horde: Sam makes a final stand for belief and is killed, and Tommy follows soon after.

In the end, the relief camp becomes a battlefield as the skies fill with nightmarish figures and the living are forced to confront the fragility of their beliefs and their lives. The film closes on a bleak, relentless note, with the demonic forces overwhelming the survivors as they face a world where faith, science, love, and loss collide in a cataclysmic struggle for meaning. The story remains focused on the emotional toll of the events—grief, faith tested under fire, and the irrevocable cost of a catastrophe that reconfigures every relationship it touches.