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Review of Bless the Child (2000) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

the thirteenth night in the lonesome hooptober day 36 film 29 cats: 0

84/100

even though this isn't a very good movie it has some things going for it that helps me make the case that this is better than THE OMEN (in no particular order):*

is about girls instead of boys Christina Ricci is so hot in this has the funniest cgi rats i have ever seen in my history with cinema/moving pictures has a fringe connection (in my own twisted, warped opinion) to THE DEVIL CONSPIRACY** by sheer happenstance that Peter Mensah shows up as a guy who basically says "you're never alone when god is in your life" then disappears like batman???? Christina Ricci is so hot in this the cast is so interesting and varied here, like i knew Basinger and Bettis were in this but assumed they would barely be in the majority of the film (as top billing sometimes 'technically' tells the truth about someone being in a leading or supporting role), but Ian Holm popping up when i had no clue he was even in this was a positive jump scare. also Gary Hudson -- the stepdad from CAMERON'S CLOSET who gets yeeted from that titular yet still unblessed child's life in a different manner -- is in this briefly as the guy who peaces out early from Maggie's place and never comes back, not even to finish DUCK SOUP with her which i felt was incredibly rude and typical of a man (the movie's only 68 minutes! my guy!). Rufus Sewell is actually used pretty effectively and he's just got one of those faces you can stare at and feel kinda comfortable doing so? it's wild how young he is in this when he was such a point of tension in Shyamalan's OLD especially when he does "potion seller" on the beach with a dirty knife. Christina Ricci is so hot in this Christina Ricci is so hot in this there are some legitimately sick sequences in this like the subway and the phantom winged demons?? like this is the closest a movie has felt to existing peripherally within the universe of BLADE (not nearly as good of course but there are some juice droplets) for little handfuls of moments like that. beware of gargoyles but, if you're in new york i think the gargoyle population is a little intimidating, especially with it technically growing in 1990

things i did not like about this movie at all: -Christina Ricci dies way too early. but she's decapitated which i think is one of the hottest ways to go and she is so hot in this so it's marginally ok

it's not a very good movie but i liked how this went down. found a new stupid movie comfort watch!!

*which in my opinion isn't a huge achievement, so i point back to the fact that this isn't a very good movie either but at least it's not boring. sorry, Richard Donner

**everyone needs to see this movie. please put it in the papers that this should be seen through more eyeball pairs or i will get mad