666: The Child

Another horror movie using loud sound effects as a scare tactic. Dialogue volume is so quiet you can't understand the storyline...if there is one. Heres an idea.. try making a movie with a scary story along with good effects instead of volume controlled crap. And maybe add some better actors. These "stars" were terrible

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.

Thats really saying a lot considering this was made on like a shoestring budget, but really this film was WAY better than the theatrical remake of the Omen. The remake was really boring and just basically the original shot for shot and line for line; this film however while it pretty much retains the same plot line and and angle to it, it adds some nice twists to the story as well (The mark of the beast is on a different place, the plane crash opening, the kid was creepier, etc.) Also the acting was actually decent even for a TV film. Liked the whole different approach for the parents as well (teens instead of adults.) the deaths are pretty cool as well, and while i wont spoil them they are actually better done than the remake deaths.

So overall if you actually wanna see a good remake of the omen see this instead of the big budget remake.

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")

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.