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Bless the Child (2000)

Bless the Child poster
Directed by
Chuck Russell
Genre
horror film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Country
Germany, United States
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 318 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman adopts her niece after her sister disappears. She later learns the girl has supernatural abilities and is being hunted by a Satanic cult.

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What happens

Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell, and starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. Based on the 1993 novel by Cathy Cash Spellman, it follows a woman who discovers that her niece, whom she has adopted, is being sought by a Satanic cult seeking to use her supernatural abilities. The film is a co-production between the United States, Canada and Germany. Filmed in Toronto in late 1999, Bless the Child was released theatrically in North America on August 11, 2000, to overwhelmingly negative critical reviews, and was a box-office bomb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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