Blessed (2004)

I was flipping past a channel that had this on the other day so I decided to TiVO it. I always enjoy a silly horror movie. Unfortunately this movie isn't just silly it's slooooow and stupid and boring. I'm not sure why they had to shoot it in a foreign country and dub a lot of the English in - it's not hard to tell it is not an American made film and this added to the crappy cinematography make what might have been a moderately bad movie in to a very unwatchable piece of trash. What a shame to see Andy Serkis's talent wasted.It isn't creepy, it isn't suspenseful, it isn't entertaining. Rosemary's Baby is a better alternative if you like this kind of film.

If it hadn't been the good performance of Heather I would not have completed the film..a total fail,,a friend told me it was not to be seen but, I did not think it was that bad,,Despite the fact it does not have a plot which normally spiritual film must have, the sequence was very confusing not to mention the ending .. A total disaster. Some shots were very unclear and got me totally lost , who's the bad and who is the good, guys what were you thinking... I mean people were going to see and pay money to see the movie not just through away time and money. I think the idea of the film was attractive but certainly the plot was a disaster. But the worst part was the end,,,so what do they want me to know or I just leave without a clue what I was watching for more than 90 min. And by the way evil is not that clever OK

**SPOILERS** Utterly ridicules re-make of "Rosemary's Baby" that should have been apply titled "Samantha's Babies" that's so convoluted that the film seems to completely fall apart in the last twenty or so minutes. It's not until I realized by reading the trivia part of the film on the IMDb that it's star David Hammings, playing the part of big shot book publisher and all around international power broker Earl Sidny, died during production that it dawned on me that the movie makers realized that had a king size turkey on their hands. They must have did everything possible to terminate it even at the cost of an understandable no matter how clumsy conclusion. Hemmings is so bloated and his voice, which I suspect was dubbed in, so low and raspy that he's both unrecognizable and hard to understand in the few scenes, before he suddenly passed away, that he's in.Having trouble conceiving the Howard's Samantha & Carig, Heather Graham & James Purefoy,go to this clinic in the little town of Westview that's been recommended to them where it's said that miracles are preformed. The clinic is noted for giving women, who are totally barren like Samantha, the ability to give birth to healthy and beautiful babies. Being artificially inseminated with her husbands sperm Samantha quickly get's pregnant and to both her and her husbands Craigs happy surprise she finds out from her doctor at the clinic Dr. Leeds,Debora Weston,that she's expecting twins.Craig a struggling writer who earlier in the film was introduced to book publisher Earl Sidney at a party in New York City is suddenly in demand to get his book published with Earl Sidney offering him $100,000.00 as a first down payment. It becomes obvious to anyone who saw read or knows about the film or book "Rosemary's Baby" that Craig had made some kind of demonic deal with Earl. We later learn that Earl is connected to this church called "The New Light of Dawn" that in effect is a secret Sanatic Order. The church is also being involved with the reproduction clinic that Samantha is being treated at. You know where the movie is going when it then takes a sudden U-turn and we're introduced to this really creepy looking guy that for some strange reason Samantha, who at the time didn't know that he's a priest, takes a strong liking to a Father Carlo, Andy Senkis. Carlo shocks Samantha in telling her that she's carrying the spawn of Satan and that only he with some liquid concoction, that looks like a fizzed out glass of Mountain Dew, can save her. Samantha who seems like she's going through with Carlo's unusual plan suddenly, at his pad or apartment, takes the liquid that she's supposed to drink and splashes it in his face! where it reacts like it was acid burning a bloody scare onto it!Samantha trying to get away from the crazed Carlo is then chased by him, in a car, all through the reproduction clinic with Carlo mindlessly busting through one operation room to another until he crashes in Dr. Leeds' office! In what seemed to be a prediction of things to come. As the gasoline in the car is spilling all over him Carlo tells the befuddled doctor that "He who walks with Satan shall burn in Hell" and then sets himself on fire with a lighter.The ending is so confusing, which like I feel is due to David Hemmings sudden death, that it makes what you saw up to it, as bad as that was, almost entertaining. We get to see the two twin girls born to Samantha grown up as preschool toddlers. The twins have this weird and spaced out look on their faces and at the same time doing what they do best in being blood-relatives to the Devil or Satan: Creating hell on earth for anyone that they come in contact with.

I decided to watch this film because it had an interesting cast and sounded like a remake of "Rosemary's Baby". A valid story line to copy - very archetypal in your Jungian sort of way - many women during pregnancy have, at some stage, felt like their body has been taken over by some force beyond their control. And, if the scriptwriters had just stuck to that, this probably would have been a routine but acceptable movie.Instead, they seemed to have panicked and decided they needed more plot, lots more plot!! So we have the homophobic literary agent (based in New York - I don't think so) who decides to look a gift horse in the mouth by investigating the financial affairs of her client's new patron (maybe on Mars this would happen). All this frantic activity culminates in her being murdered for some reason that I missed.Then there's the garbled story about an angel killing a saint (or a saint killing an angel), perfectly encapsulated in a really dreadful painting which we are supposed to believe would be on public display by David Hemmings' character, a supposed art connoisseur. There is an antique-looking tube full of blood (maybe) which belongs either the angel or the saint.Then there's the fertility clinic which also does cloning as well. This causes great panic among several of the characters, even though there is no evidence that cloning was used. If they did, the ending shows that it clearly wasn't David Hemmings' character who was cloned.Then there's the scene in the delivery room which is just plain dishonest. We see Heather Graham's abdomen and the scary little scaly things apparently in her womb ("Oh my God, I'm having an iguana!" Now there's a film.). The delivery nurse says "Oh my God!" and the scene fades to black. Next thing we see are the twins at their fourth birthday, looking quite normal if a bit subdued for a pair of four year old girls. So what was the nurse exclaiming over?And then there's the mystery of what the girls are supposed to be. Are they the Devil, in which case, why are there two of them? Same question if they're supposed to be the angel. They are clearly something supernatural (as the demise of the annoying little boy at the party shows) but what? Angels don't go around melting four year old boys, do they?Oh, and just to show that my attention really wandered watching this film, is David Hemmings' character Earl Sydney of Wherever, as in a member of the English aristocracy, or is he just Earl Sydney? If the latter, English boys of his age would not have been called Earl. Assuming the character is in fact English and it's not simply that Hemmings realised early on this film wasn't worth doing an accent for.