Released in 2005, The Visitation is a supernatural thriller based on Frank Peretti's best selling book.

The film begins with Travis Jordan, a former minister who's wife was slain in a brutal satanic-like ritual. Three years have passed, and miracles are happening in the town of Antioch, people surviving sure death car crashes, restoring the ability to walk, ect. as well as the arrival of a mysterious stranger who is highly reminiscent of Jesus Christ. But when things begin to become dark, and the towns obsession with the stranger soon turns to a cult following, drawing in all around it. The situation becomes clear that all is not all is what it seems. Travis then begins an investigation of the stranger and takes him on a thrill ride into the depths of a dark secret, as well as the evil that has come to their town.

Featuring the likes of Randy Travis, Martin Donovan, and Edward Furlong, The Visitation certainly has all the performance you could hope for. the story itself is stedfast and totally consuming, not to mention the film being full the great dark elements we have come to know and love from all of Frank Peretti's work. All in all this film drives home and has one of the most powerful climaxes one could hope to see, and is defiantly a good watch.

Sabriel: By Garth Nix book review

I'm sure you can think of several occasions where a friend, or a relative, has told you something along the lines of "you have to read this book i have just finished!"? Well I happen to be a person who receives statements of that nature on several occasions. A while back a good friend of mine suggested Sabriel to me. Figuring that it was probably over-hyped (which my friend has a often tendency of doing), i bought the book and allowed it to sit on my shelf until i was done reading a few other books i had been reading. But when i got around to it i discovered the hype to be accurate, and have come to agree with all my friend had been saying.

Sabriel was originally published in 1995, and has appealed to both young and adult-age readers alike. It should also be mentioned that it also happens to be the first book in The Abhorsen Trilogy.

The story starts off with Sabriel growing up in a boarding school in Ancelstierre, a land that has been separated from the Old Kingdom by a wall. Sabriel was born in the Old Kingdom and her father still lives there, where magic is much more common than in Ancelstierre, and the Old Kingdom's culture is almost completely centered on and with magic. Her father is a Abhorsen, a person who's job it is to insure that the dead remain in that state.

In her school Sabriel has learning many things from The Book of the Dead, as well as showing her how to literally walk in Death. These elements of life have always been in her life, and it is obvious that she dose not question their need. she has indeed embraced her life and plans to become an Abhorsen.

On the night before her father is to visit her, a messenger form Death arrives, bearing only her fathers sword and a belt of necromancy bells before disappearing back into death. It is at this point that Sabriel realizes that her father has fallen to a terrible fate and she begins on a quest into the Old Kingdom to save him.

The adventure that fallows is filled with secrets, creatures, and sever strange characters and the world that the book is held in is in depth, well constructed, and whole. The characters themselves are believable and likable, and grab your intrust quickly.

      I can assure you that one you have begun reading this story you will find it rather difficult to put down. I found myself reading it again only a few days after i had completed it (as well as talking my friends and families ears off about it, as my friend had done with me).  To me this is one of the shining gems of the fantasy novel universe, and a novel that i highly recommend. All in all, i advise all who love fantasy novels to pick this book up immediately, you will not regret it.