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A news
reporter and her husband decide to adopt a
young boy called Donald who was the sole survivor
of a plane crash. They think that they've been
blessed, but as you can probably make out of the
title, Donald is not exactly a godsend. It doesn't
take long before the couple's friends start turning
up dead, one after the other, so they decide to
hire a professional nanny called Lucy. What they
don't know is that Lucy is Donald's birthmother.
With this popular wave of horror remakes, the big
companies aren't the only ones wanting to get
something out of it. The small production company
The Asylum has recently started to take advantage
of this as well and make their own remakes right
before the theatrical remake hits the cinemas. Now,
I don't really approve of this as I've mentioned
in other reviews of their recent movies but I have
to say that this is clearly their best effort so far.
666: The Child is a clean rip-off of The Omen, which
most of you had probably all ready figured out.
And while I love the original, I was never a big
fan of the sequels (especially not the third one)
so I really appreciated that this was pretty faithful
to the original movie (even if far from as good).
The movie revolves around a boy called Donald who
gets adopted by a couple who work in the entertainment
industry. Soon enough, people around them start
dying in freak accidents but we all know that
these are anything but accidents.
It doesn't really have the same plot as The Omen
other than the little devil boy and it really
does feel like this should have been a sequel
rather than a rip-off as I think most horror fans
would have respected that more. Either way, this
is a very entertaining movie and it's nice to see
that The Asylum are actually starting to put some
thought into their remake rip-offs. However, it
still stumbles a couple of times on the way.
One thing that I never understood was why Lucy
didn't just keep her baby. I mean, she shows up
as the nanny but acts like Donald's mother (which
she is) so why did she give him away to an
orphanage? Also, I never understood why Donald
killed some of the people in the movie but I guess
the devil doesn't have to have a reason for killing.
This 70-min horror film is still worth while though
and I was surprised to find myself really enjoying
it. Oh and yeah, the running time is 80min but
the end credits are shown very slowly for 10min.
I guess that's a good way to kill running time huh?
Either way, if you're a fan of the original movie,
you should definitely check it out.
We get a hand chopped off, an impalement and a lot
of blood splatter.
Surprisingly ambitious score from The Asylum. It
actually seems as if someone put some time into
making this. Good enough, not great.
Sure, it's an Omen rip-off, but it's a pretty
decent one at that. The theatrical remake will
probably be a whole lot better, but for those
who are too anxious to wait, check this one out,
it's a pretty good movie.
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