666: The Child - Der Sohn des Teufels

very entertaining, things like this make me laugh and i am pretty certain the whole thing was 'tongue in cheek' cant see that anyone would take it seriously, its just totally hilarious, and yeah the anti Christ boy 'donald' like... zilch personality, all in all it made me giggle for over an hour, i think really that you are all missing the point and it isn't actually meant to be considered a serious piece of film making... from what i can tell for other comments, this production company make 'sppofs' of well known horror films, so considering that, this is a pretty good spoof...if you really want to get annoyed, aim it at the re make of the omen, which was supposed to be serious and is just utter rubbish and no point int hem making it.

After a plane crash where a boy is the only survival, the famous anchor Erika Lawson (Sarah Lieving) convinces her husband and cameraman Scott (Adam Vincent) to adopt the child. They bring Donald (BooBoo Stewart) home and Scott's father Big Jake (Robert D Mcewen) offers to take care of him while the couple works. However, after a series of bizarre accidents that culminates with the death of Jake, the nanny Lucy Fir (Nora Jesse) comes to the Lawson's home to work. However, Lucy is actually a follower of the Anti-Christ and together with Donald, they bring more tragedies to the Lawson's family.

"666 – The Child" is a terrible low-budget rip-off of "The Omen". The awful screenplay has also bad acting and poor special effects and the result is a stupid flawed and annoying film. The conclusion is ridiculous. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "666 – O Filho do Mal" ("666 – The Son of the Evil")

Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. What else can I say. Kate Jackson must have been desperate to direct. May be she should go back to acting...on second thought she was a bad actress to. Who would put money in to producing something this bad. I like anti-Christ movies and usually have a good laugh and the odd scare but this one is just Bad Bad Bad. The acting by the stars was worse than what you find on a soap opera. The special effects, if you can call them that, where laughable. I would not be surprised if you played the scenes in slow motion you would see the tubes the blood shoots out of. We had to turn the disc off after only 30 minutes. This so called movies original prints should be destroyed, all disc' and tapes destroyed and all the people associated with the making of the movie have to pay back money to the people that rented the movie. Then those people should never be allowed to act, direct or film any thing but their own home movies.

Orphaned child is adopted by a couple who eventually discover he's the anti-Christ. Low-budget and painfully tedious until the last 20 mins, whilst there's a constant aura of tension, the flow is stilted and lacking momentum that the audio-visual effects can't overcome.

The acting is functional and the technical specs are passable when you consider the budget, but if you're not prepared for the C-grade scale, chances are you'll be a little disappointed. One actress has a great scene where she eats a fire poker, and then there's the dude who's spontaneously attacked by the lawn mower, circular saw and power drill which is hilarious (and bloody). Plenty of sex and violence, nudity and blood, all the cool stuff you're expecting to see in a cheap exploitation film, and in this department, 'The Child' doesn't disappoint.

Around those elements though, it's a struggle even allowing for the fact it's not taking itself too seriously; bland and unimaginative, like a student film homage to 'The Omen' - which is okay for curiosity sake if they screen it for free, I just wouldn't be paying money to see it.

I actually like Asylum movies. I've made it a habit to see as many as possible. Even the rip-offs they've done have been cool like EXORCISM And WHEN A KILLER CALLS. This is just plain lame. I can't believe that the same people who made DEAD MEN WALKING and DRACULA'S CURSE actually made this movie too!!! It's not even laughably bad like JOLLY ROGER or ALIEN ABDUCTION (which, by the way are pretty bad). This is just BAD! I mean, I can appreciate and/or forgive bad acting or lame special effects in an Asylum movie, but this film takes itself way too seriously. I really hope that SNAKES ON A TRAIN is better. Now that's a movie I can't wait to see.