This unexpectedly amusing, spectacularly schlock-mongous, bargain bucket, Rosemary's Baby has much to recommend it to rabid B-Horror fanatics! 'Blessed' finds photogenic married couple Chris (James Purefoy) and Samantha (Heather Graham) undergoing an 'experimental' IVF program at the shady Spiritus clinic, funded by sinister oligarch Earl Sydney (David Hemmings). Charmingly inept as a legitimate horror film, the inadvertently delightful 'Blessed' frequently excels as a chucklesome calamity of cloven-hooved hysteria!
While the Devil may well have the best music, it should also be noted that ol' Nick has more than his fair share of triumphant terror toss made in his name. The sublimely jape worthy jewel in this mildewed Luciferian muddle is Andy Serkis's caffeinated, deliciously overripe performance as the greasy, Gorgonzola-gargling priest tasked by 'im upstairs to righteously abort these fatal fetuses! On a more subjective note, the amiably goofy, diabolically dishy Heather Graham makes for an especially adorable, doe eyed satanic surrogate. If Hallmark ever made the diametrical leap from lachrymose melodrama to horror, it might just resemble this sulphurous stew of Satanic schlock. For me, any horror film that begins with a boozy, heavily preggers bint dramatically nosediving off a skyscraper has distinct potential!
While the Devil may well have the best music, it should also be noted that ol' Nick has more than his fair share of triumphant terror toss made in his name. The sublimely jape worthy jewel in this mildewed Luciferian muddle is Andy Serkis's caffeinated, deliciously overripe performance as the greasy, Gorgonzola-gargling priest tasked by 'im upstairs to righteously abort these fatal fetuses! On a more subjective note, the amiably goofy, diabolically dishy Heather Graham makes for an especially adorable, doe eyed satanic surrogate. If Hallmark ever made the diametrical leap from lachrymose melodrama to horror, it might just resemble this sulphurous stew of Satanic schlock. For me, any horror film that begins with a boozy, heavily preggers bint dramatically nosediving off a skyscraper has distinct potential!