Calling [DVD] [2000] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

I got a shock here - bought this dirt cheap along with 3 other dirt cheap dvds from my local store. Expected rubbish to be honest - the other three movies were so dire I didn't bother watching this one for ages. When I did, I was very pleasently surprised.
This is actually a very good movie indeed.
It is English (hoorah! No bleached teeth!) which is great as we do indeed churn out some good stuff - as underrated as it always is.
It is similar to Rosemary's Baby, in that a young wife becomes pregnant with a child whom she gradually discovers is evil incarnate. To tell you more actually gives plot details away so I shall say just this.....
This is a good quality movie - a good cast with decent acting and some really well played out plot twists. The ending was superior to many supernatural chillers on this subject.
I was impressed and will certainly watch this again and again.
Sometimes, you stumble over a movie that no one ever seems to have heard of, and yet is really very good. This is one of them.
I highly recommend this.

When I rented this film it just had the 2 positive reviews on Amazon- which to me is totally inexplicable- I'm glad other reviwers are putting the record straight. This is a TERRIBLE film. I don't know where to begin, the script resembles some sort of GCSE project, clumsily written with most of the plot coming out through clunky voiceovers as the writer lacks the skill to reveal anything through dialogue. The acting, what can I say, these 'actors' might be able to sustain the suspension of disbelief required for say, a loans direct advert, but are totally lost in a film. The main male lead resembles a catalogue model who accidentally walked on to a film set, certainly not someone who's ever had an acting lesson. The child, who we are supposed to believe is the spawn of satan, is about as sinister as a pop tart. The female lead is equally unconvincing, although, with such a ludicrously bad script none of them have much to work with.
The story is in Rosemary's Baby/ The Omen territory but without a single atom of originality. On top of that the behavior of the characters is utterly implausable. For example the female lead STILL forgives and wants to stay with her husband despite the following: he's handed her over for a bit of nooky with satan on her wedding night, crucified her son on a laughable upside-down cross, tried to hang then put-down her dog, murdered her best friend and all the while been having an affair with his colleague. It's ridiculous, the whole film's ridiculous, I can't even bring myself to waste any more time talking about it. DO NOT RENT/BUY THIS! If you're looking for something with similar themes try Rosemary's Baby, The Omen (1st one) or The Seventh Sign- all of which are VASTLY superior to this rubbish. I can't believe stuff like this gets made at all, rant, rant...

Where to begin. The lead woman in this film who gives birth to 'the wicked one' provides a monotonous voiceover for the entire running length of the film to fill in and flesh out all the bits of the film that the director was incapable of depicting in the traditional sense of film making via the medium of dialogue, acting etc.
The posh kid in the film sported another one of those diabolical haircuts that only those posh drama schools seem to insist upon, not quite the awful pudding bowl affair but getting there. Surely the son of satan (or was the kid satan himself, I may have wandered off during that important voiceover moment) would have a bit of something about him instead of being a posh moody narky brat with a haircut that at most schools would see him pursued around the playground by the entire first year intent on relieving him of his dinner money?
A few superflouous characters were killed just to remind you that there was evil afoot. There was a taxi driver, like an old punk, with a taxi adorned with crucifixes, statues of Mary etc who was telling the voice over lady all that was going on including handing her a 2000 year old section of parchment encased in amber(?) which was from the devils equivalent of the bible. Anyway he himself turned out to be the devil I think it was, it was one of the worst caricatures I have ever seen and would not have looked out of place as a wacky character on Father Ted.
The voice over lady seemed to believe everything she was told all of a sudden without too much substance to back it up but was still later willing to overlook her apostle of satan, best friend murdering, pet dog destroying, openly unfaithful child killing husbands indiscretions in order to give the marriage another go.
Her husband fronted a regional news show on a remote island community 120 miles off the coast of mainland Britain yet we were expected to believe that because the kid appeared on the show one day showing off his ability to say words and sentences backwards that the kid was now the subject of international media attention. When later the voice over lady drowned him CNN etc were apparantly at this brats funeral which was being watched by 500 million people!! Because he can say words backwards!! Really??
Anyway the wind blew, the coffin started shaking and lo and behold live on tv the kid had come back to life (nothing less than a resurrection as the sole reporter proclaimed) They opened the coffin and proud father and new missus posed for pics next to him, I mean it was hardly an out of the ordinary occurrence.
Voice over lady decided, having been watching on tv from hospital that it was time to leave this place and hid in the back of a priests car just before the evil policeman walked in with a gun to shoot her. Anyway the car was being followed by a skinhead on a motorbike so no worries there, we didn't even require a voiceover for that bit.
There are many more tedious bits I have not the strength to subject to ridicule but can't resist this one. During a satanic party, you could tell it was a satanic party because it was at a big remote mansion, everyone was wearing those little eye masks and there was some pretend semi-naked hanky panky going on. The brat for no particular reason focused his energy on a chain link (the director liked this slice of action, the brat had previously caused a swing chain link to snap in an identical scene) holding an electrical light causing the chain to break sending the light into a jacuzzi type thin below. A chap in the pool pretended he was being electrocuted by jigging about for a while. The watching massess then burst into an impromptu version of 'For he's a jolly good fellow' I understood this to be for the brat as opposed to the unfortunate bather. A monumentally awful film.