Bless The Child

DVD

Condition

Good

Category

DVD

Actor

Jimmy Smits

Actor

Kim Basinger

Actor

Rufus Sewell

Audience Rating

Suitable for 15 years and over

Certificate

15

Director

Charles Russell

Edition

Disc only

Genre

Horror

Manufacturer

Warner

Number Of Discs

1

Publisher

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

Region Code

DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)

Release Year

2001

Release Date

2001-07-09

Running Time Units = minutes

103

Sub- Genre

Horror

E A N

7321900932455

Film/ T V Title

Bless The Child

Format

DVD

Encoding

PAL

Season

1

Type

Movie

Language

English

Features

Widescreen

U P C

7321900932455

Synopsis

DVD Special Features:
Commentary by Chuck Russell (Director) and Joel Hynek (Visual Effects Supervisor)
Interviews
TV Spots
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Trailer
Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired.
Bless the Child is one of several identikit supernatural thrillers released in the wake of The Sixth Sense. It's another attempt to update 70s satanic-child flicks such as The Omen, although the twist here is that the child is a force for ultimate good. One winter night, nurse Maggie O'Connor (Kim Basinger) arrives home to find her junkie sister Jenna on her doorstep, destitute and in dire straits, holding a newly born baby wrapped in swaddling. She takes them in, but shortly after Jenna absconds leaving the child, Cody, in Maggie's care. Six years later, Jenna returns with her creepy new husband, Eric (Rufus Sewell), in tow to reclaim Cody, who has grown into a quiet but precocious child with a talent for telekinesis. They promptly disappear leaving Maggie distraught and desperate to recover her adopted child.
The chief problem with Bless the Child lies in its premise. As the film reaches its denouement and a glowing angelic host attempts to save Cody by snuffing out Sewell's satanic presence, one begins to suspect that this is the Hollywood equivalent of a Christian Rock album, attempting religious conversion by stealth and subversion. That said, the movie rolls along at a cracking pace and features several nice touches: Sewell is suitably creepy as the squint-eyed cult leader; Christina Ricci literally loses her head to the forces of darkness in a blink and you'll miss it cameo; and Cody's horrific waking nightmares put a new twist on what really lies at the end of the bed when the lights go out.
On the DVD: An awkward audio commentary pairs director Chuck Russell with visual effects supervisor Joel Hynek. Russell is keen on spelling out the rather obvious motivations of his characters while Hynek relays the difficulties encountered in realising the film's numerous special effects sequences, but it's hardly the kind of stuff that enhances your viewing of the film. A 10-minute featurette contains the standard enthusiastic cast and crew interviews. The inclusion of a theatrical trailer and seven virtually identical TV spots is simply overkill. The clear picture quality of the main feature shows off Peter Menzies' suitably Gothic cinematography, presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic format with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.

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