The Devil's Child

A woman's mother makes a deal with the devil to save the daughter from dying. 20 years later the devil returns to claim retribution. Sounds compelling but in reality, this is a dull, listless show with little originality. Kim Delaney adds some semblance of good acting but what grates me is that the plot is a pure rip-off from previous movies. Thomas Gibson is too straight faced and nice looking to be evil. The Devil's Child lacks any new ideas and whichever way the story moves, you know you've seen it before. The finale is as close to any mediocre B-grade horror movie you can find.

A decent rip-off of the classic 'Rosemary's Baby', not a bad film but pretty much dwindles in the memory.

I just see this movie and I think it is not bad at all... It has a strong christian message that I have never seen in other horror movies. It has a clear message, the "devil" is always around us but with the prayer you can fight the evil. The victory of the good (over the evil), comes from God. There was one moment, almost in the end of the movie in which I was expecting that the mother of the child would have kill the son, but in the end, she went to batist the child, symbol that she belive in the love of God (the batism wins the sin). The devil in conclusion is always there, and the only way to fight is by beliving in God. Doesn´t sound like horror movie... nice!

Though this is a supernatural film, it is still unbelievable in some sense. Seeing that the Devil has powers all that live on earth (in this movie), why can't he simply appear when Kim is about to leave with the child, but instead allows her to take him away for good? Couldn't he make her fall along the way and then just pick the baby up? Or send someone to shoot her and then pick up the baby? Since he can command a girl to kill Lilliard's character, this shows he has powers over the mind, so why didn't he?

Another grouse I have is that why does every supernatural movie with Christian overtones always involve the Catholic church? Don't the denominations believe in the soul and the devil as well? It get boring after a while when you forever see the Catholic church as either the Saviour of the world or the Scourge of the world.

Anyway, the moral of this story is: don't promise what you later would regret.

Another example of Kim Delaney making a poor script believable. More Catholic bashing and supernatural happenings. Unfortunately, the producers decided to kill off Larry Holden early...an interesting character actor who could have added life to this otherwise dull film. At least Kim has a recurring television role to sustain her. Sigh.