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An Exercise In Nonsense

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Another yawner about a demon who leeches itself to children and leaves the affected family looking for its "pound of flesh," so to speak.Cameron is left in charge of his niece, Angie, while his mom goes visiting. They live in a house with their grandparents, both afflicted in some way or the other. Even though Cam's mother forbids him to take Angie to see her real mother, an ex druggie, where's the first place they go once mom is out of sight? You guess it. During the visit, there seems to be a horrible argument going on next door so Cam (naturally) investigates. Angie follows. Angie is then overcome by a LOT of second-hand smoke and has a proclivity for big eyeballs. Cameron then finds out Angie has become possessed by "the devil's whore, a/k/a Lillith." In order to save her, he must kill six people in seven days and offer them as sacrifices.Another amateur-night-at-the-Bijou attempt at horror that was so confusing it was hard for me to keep everything straight. In fact, I don't think I did. The script was absolutely absurd because in one part of the movie you have the girlfriend who suddenly is upset about morals...while all along she's been trying to help Cam kill people. Go figure.The movie is unrated and has some minimal violence, faux lovemaking, and language.

This film is visually interesting and disturbing, yet the acting seems wooden at times. It appears to rip off a rather more well know horror film in unimportant ways or at least refer to them. There are nice atmospheric touches throughout, and what we learn about the characters as they develop adds to the creepy feel of the piece as a whole. Willing suspension of disbelief fails occasionally, but there is plenty of detail to add a sense of creepiness to the film overall. On the one hand it is a bit difficult to keep track of who is related to whom, and in what way, but this, too, adds to the effect of the film as a whole. Films referred to seem to include The Exorcist and The Shining.

Don't let your child watch this movie! It is a pile of sick fecal matter not even convincingly made. The plot is immoral, treating human lives like pawn-able items. It pathetically tries but fails, in its attempt to portray that any human being would accept that it is OK to kill 6 innocent blood relatives to save your one niece. An escapee from mental institution for criminal patients might agree but the lead actors don't look the part. Also the lead actor doesn't have a consistent personality portrayed in the film. He is out to save his niece and also says he can't kill children to save her but he wants his own unborn baby aborted. What a pile of poop! As others have pointed out the plot is very rigid - it would have been better if there was some positive lead character in the film who finds out about the murders and gets the killers arrested. At-least that way it would have catered to those among us who are not escapees from mental institutions. The writer and director of this movie would do a service to humanity if they don't attempt to work in the cinema field ever again.

It's been a while since I've seen a movie so terrible I quit part way through. I'd actually been doing a fairly good job of selecting half way decent movies. This time I struck out (that's what I get for going with Netflix selections for me).The plot of the movie is straight forward (I guess). Lilith, the first wife of Adam (as in Adam and Eve) is a child stealer because yada yada yada. That's pretty much what it sound like to me once the woman said Adam had a wife before Eve that was banished from Eden for not obeying Adam.At any rate: child possession... weak scare tactics... ominous music... poor acting... etcetera etcetera... I quit.