Bless the Child

Rating: * * 1/2
Director: Chuck Russell
Running time: 107 minutes
Language: English
Opens Dec. 1 at the Shibuya Tokyu 3 Theater

Why is it that a huge chunk of the horror-movie market is comprised of the Christian version of Good vs. Evil? The trend hit peak levels before Y2K, when film after film predicted the coming Armageddon and caused my friend Sammy in Chinatown, N.Y., to remark: "What about us? We don't get the New Year until February; don't care for no Satan but that don't mean they can just ignore us!"

News photoHolliston Coleman in "Bless the Child"