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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

the good intentions are basic virtue of this strange film. strange not for idea but for its use. and for the not inspired manner to be more than poor exercise to remember a classic. the cast is OK and this is far to be a virtue. because the presence of Heather Graham and James Purefoy as a sweet couple, Fionnula Flanagan in skin of an interesting character and, the sad piece - Andy Serkis as pearl before swine in a movie who is only mixture between different ingredients, with large slices of Rosemary Baby and a lot of clichés. it is difficult to comment a film who is only exercise for a director ambition. or, only, a not inspired homage to Polansky and horror universe.

This film is either disgusting and depressing or absolutely hilarious. I get the feeling that the director was going for the former, trying to scare women away from fertility clinics. This kind of anti-intellectual, anti-science nonsense is for people terrified of God and the devil. For most people, this is an easy film never to see.Not only that, but the movie is stupid to boot. A fertility clinic in the same building as a cloning facility? Yeah, that's believable. Want to see a pregnant prosthesis so fake looking you'd think Heather Graham made it herself? Well, get yourself some popcorn then. Finally, the mean-spirited non-ending shows contempt for an audience I haven't seen the likes of since Speed 2.

"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

Blessed stellar cast of James Purefoy, Finnula Flanagan, David Hemmings, Andy Serkis, and Heather Graham should have made this film a worthy contender for a new take on the Rosemary's Baby, Faust retelling. However, the script got in the way. While settings of upstate New York and Manhattan are lovely, the storyline is simply muddled and confusing. James Purefoy and Heather Graham are an upwardly mobile yuppie couple who want to make a baby, but finances and the failing career of the husband seem to be keeping them down. Viola, a set of circumstances clear the way for the couple to move to a lake front ideal community where a fertility clinic is conveniently up the road and in no time, Heather is preggers with twins. However, a cloud seems to shadow her maternity bliss in the form of a hooded figure who spooks the naive woman, and her husband's waning interest in her blossoming body seem to spell the end of canoodles in the dark. In the mean time, James' writers block is over, he's knocking pages out and making friends with a mysterious and vastly wealthy elder man (David Hemmings), who seems able to make miracles happen.It is only in the last third of the film that the story becomes tangled with a suspicious priest (Andy Serkis) tempting Graham's character to abort the twins as the spawn of science -- a little too extreme religion vs. science debate. And, it seems Mr. Hemmings passed away during the filming, as a double is used for several scenes. In the end, if the twin girls are angles or evil is left ambiguous, although equally questionable is whether one could be evil and the other good. That's not an altogether bad ending, either. It's up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions.Watch for performances by Ms. Flanagan, Mr. Purefoy, and a bit role by Stella Stevens, the mother of the producer, Andrew Stevens, whose own acting career never got father than powdered wigs in the 70s.