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Disappointing, dull and almost unwatchable
"Blessed" is a dull and slow supernatural horror tale with only a few
mild moments of interest. **SPOILERS** Completing a new book deal, novelist Craig Howard, (James Purefoy) and his wife Samantha, (Heather Graham) decide that the time is perfect to start a family and try to conceive a child. Failing to make it the regular fashion, and are recommended to Dr. Lohman, (Michael J. Reynolds) who runs an in vitro fertility clinic. Moving out to a lake-view cabin in the countryside to complete their sessions, a later visit confirms their hopes and she is now pregnant. The joy is soon overwhelmed when they suddenly start to get the idea that there's something wrong with the clinic when they realize that the other patients are disappearing around them. Uncovering the truth, that they have been impregnated with the blood of the devil into their child so that they'll bear the son of the Antichrist, they try whatever they can so they can get rid of the demon child. The Good News: There isn't much that the film gets right. One of the main ones is that it takes a lot of mileage out of the corny concept, getting in some actually decent scenes out of the film. The later half, especially once the diabolical plot has been revealed, it gets really good. The fears of that are played up nicely, making it feel really wonderful once that happens, including one of the most brutal scenes ever where a bat is taken to a baby's hump in the stomach. It's all part of a series of incidents, which may or may not reveal the actual truth, that come into play and it has a creepy air. It has a few nice action parts at the end, especially the fires at the clinic and the house proving especially fun. It's one of the few parts of the film with anything remotely resembling life in the film, due to it's pacing. The few special effects in the film are nicely done, with the melting faces being particularly impressive. These here are the film's good parts. The Bad News: This one here is one of the most dull and lifeless horror films around. There's several big flaws to explain it, most likely there's just nothing happening for the majority of the film. It goes back-and-forth over what her fears are about the baby before being told she's going crazy, which is repeated constantly and makes the film feel so terribly dull and tired that it gets old fast. There's also the feat that it takes so long to get going through this manner that it's nearly over before something interesting happens, which in this case is the final ten minutes when everything goes up in flames, and everything before just makes it feel really slow and uninteresting. Very rarely does it have anything to do with the feeling of interest and it makes for some really painful viewing. That also has something to do with the fact that very few moments in the film are actually scary. There's a lot of problems with this one when it comes to actually generating tension through it's prowess, and it manages to use several different areas that are quite scary to full effect. There's several times that the scare effect going for in the film aren't all that scary, and it makes the dullness even more noticeable. These here are that the film has wrong for it. The Final Verdict: Aan incredibly dull film with little to like about it, this one really continues the trend of unimpressive sub-genre entries. Only give this a viewing for hardcore fans of the genre or of the creative cast, while those who find the flaws more important will have no problem skipping this one. Rated R: Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, a mild sex scene and child danger. |
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