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blessTheChild

8:19pm CDT Sunday 27 August 2000

Today Madison and I saw Bless The Child, which opened this weekend. We both agreed that it wasn't as scary as we expected.. there was some suspense, but not a lot. The computer animation was really good; they animated a roomfull of rats (twice) and some creepy flying gargoyles a few times.

Most of the violence was implied, though several photographs of apparent arm mutilations were shown. The scene of needle going into arm looked quite real.

The lead bad-guy character was quite creepy. I thought he was well cast into the role (I don't know the actor's name) because his gaze with one eye barely off kilter made him look just a bit icky. The character's personality changed from silky smooth to enraged psycho in a blink.

I wonder if Holliston Coleman (our 7 year old hero) will see the movie and end up in psychiatric hospital like the girl on Exorcist. Oh - that reminds me.. one of the trailers before the movie is for an extended remix version of the original Exorcist, with digital audio and scenes added that were cut from the original movie. It looked quite a bit scarier than Bless The Child.

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