The Reckoning

Name: The Reckoning
Director: Daniel J. Lennox
Genre: Faith-Based, Dystopian
Duration: 29 min 35 s
Cast: Zach Hurley, Daniel J. Lennox, Deacon Grasty, Aidan Brooks

When humanity falters, faith endures.

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The Short Version

Not your typical faith film. Not your typical dystopian thriller.

One brother clings to faith, the other to survival at any cost. An uninvited stranger is about to force them to choose.

Critical Acclaim

What They're Saying

Jude (Zach Hurley) sits beside a wooden cross marker.

Samuel (Deacon Grasty) and Elijah (Aidan Brooks) sit together beside a freshly dug grave.

Samuel, played by Deacon Grasty, lit in cold blue light.

Elijah, played by Aidan Brooks, with a wooden cross marker visible behind him.

Mac, played by Daniel J. Lennox, standing in a dim room.

Samuel and Jude stand masked against a stormy sky, holding shovels.

Synopsis

Before The End

The Reckoning is set in the last uneasy days before the world fully unravels: a tribulation, not yet an ending. A government bioweapon has already begun its work, and the sky itself feels like a warning.

Samuel, the younger brother, clings to his faith and hope for redemption. Jude, hardened by loss and the brutal realities of survival, has embraced a more pragmatic, ruthless approach. As resources dwindle and the bond between them frays, their fragile existence is tested further when a wounded, uninvited stranger enters their lives, bringing both risk and opportunity neither brother is prepared for.

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There's always a line. In a world like this, it might be unrecognizable.

Dan Lennox, Writer & Director

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Why This Film Exists

Faith Endures

Writer/director Dan Lennox built The Reckoning around two brothers, Samuel and Jude, who begin as a clash of opposing survival philosophies before an uninvited stranger, Mac, arrives to put both beliefs to the test.

Set in a world tipping toward its final tribulation, the film's real subject is universal: how people carry loss, live with uncertainty, and hold onto meaning as everything familiar comes undone. Lennox describes the story as an exploration of faith in the broadest sense: not only religious faith, but faith in other people, in the possibility of forgiveness, and in a future worth staying alive for.

A grave marked with a simple wooden cross in an open field.

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Samuel, played by Deacon Grasty, raising a handgun.

Two figures at a grave marked by a wooden cross in an open field.

Raw performances, stark Indiana farmland, and a color palette that never lets you forget what the sky did. A handful of frames from the film. The rest live in the full gallery.

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