Stars: Anthony John Denison (Crime Story), Brad Davis (Midnight Express). Based on James Patterson's novel Virgin, this mild horror film stars Anthony John Denison as a Catholic father assigned to verify that a 15-year-old girl living in a sleepy little Pennsylvania town has experienced an immaculate conception. No sooner is this confirmed than the father must check out a second instance of miraculous pregnancy, this time in Boston. It seems that both a Christ and an Antichrist are on the birth docket--ah, but which girl has which baby? An intriguing premise which might have even made a decent horror film had the filmmakers spent more than $1.50 on the special effects. Instead we get newscasts about the terrible plagues that are sweeping the Earth (locusts in Africa, a deadly new polio strain in America, etc.), plagues that have little to do with the story. The whole shebang winds up with some half-hearted line lifts from The Exorcist and a cheesy ooh-could-there-be-a-sequel? finale. Audience: Horror fans who may be wooed by the excellent box art only to be sorely disappointed in this tame cable flick.
Child of Darkness, Child of Light
Horror, Paramount Home Video, 1992, Color, 85 min., $79.95 (2-pack--$109.95), rated: PG-13 (violence), Made for Cable: USA 1992 Video Movies
Child of Darkness, Child of Light
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