***SPOILERS*** One of the score of movies released since "Rosemary's Baby" about Satan coming back to earth to create havoc there and thus, by having himself and his minions destroyed, usher in the Apocalypse. That makes a lot of sense on Satan's part doesn't it!
We get in "Child of Darkness, Child of Light" an extra feature with not only Satan expected to make his appearance on earth but his eternal arch-enemy Jesus as well. Both Satan and Jesus are to come to earth via a virgin birth in the last decade of the Twentieth Century. This was all foretold some 70 years ago in a letter left by the surviving member of the world famous miracle of the Villa Fontaine! And now, in 1991, that time has finally come.
The film has two virgins, one in Boston Ma. and one in Briscayne Falls Pa., who are about to give birth but who's the one carrying Satan's child or Jesus is anyone guess! It's up to Father Justin, Anthony John Denison, to determine just who's who, Satan or Jesus, and then report his findings back to the Vatican for farther study. The film keeps the audience, as well as Father Justin, guessing which of the two virgin births will be divine or damned. While were trying to make heads or tales of all this the earth is struck by a series of deadly pestilences that are of Biblical proportions. One of them Polio/Venice, a cross between Polio and AIDS, looks like it will wipe out the entire human race!
Almost impossible to follow the film has so many sub-plots in it that you get lost within the first half hour of screen time. We also have a number of wild eyed religious fanatics as well as hysterical Satan worshipers that by the time the film is over you just don't seem to care who ends up on the winning side. There is somewhat of a surprise ending that exposes just who's behind this attempt to bring Satan back on earth and those involved, besides being nutty as fruitcakes, unfortunately have the best scenes and lines in the movie.
****SPOILERS**** We do get to see Jesus, disguised as a angelic-looking blond Catholic school girl at the very end of the film. The girl stymies the Devil's spawn in her saving a Mother Superior whom the evil Satan had walk into traffic and get run down by a speeding car. What this minor event, compared to what we expected to see in the film, had to do with the final battle between good and evil is anyone's guess.
P.S Look out for the late Brad Davis as Dr. Tuchner who's one of the two pregnant girl's, Margaret Gallagher, church appointed physician.
We get in "Child of Darkness, Child of Light" an extra feature with not only Satan expected to make his appearance on earth but his eternal arch-enemy Jesus as well. Both Satan and Jesus are to come to earth via a virgin birth in the last decade of the Twentieth Century. This was all foretold some 70 years ago in a letter left by the surviving member of the world famous miracle of the Villa Fontaine! And now, in 1991, that time has finally come.
The film has two virgins, one in Boston Ma. and one in Briscayne Falls Pa., who are about to give birth but who's the one carrying Satan's child or Jesus is anyone guess! It's up to Father Justin, Anthony John Denison, to determine just who's who, Satan or Jesus, and then report his findings back to the Vatican for farther study. The film keeps the audience, as well as Father Justin, guessing which of the two virgin births will be divine or damned. While were trying to make heads or tales of all this the earth is struck by a series of deadly pestilences that are of Biblical proportions. One of them Polio/Venice, a cross between Polio and AIDS, looks like it will wipe out the entire human race!
Almost impossible to follow the film has so many sub-plots in it that you get lost within the first half hour of screen time. We also have a number of wild eyed religious fanatics as well as hysterical Satan worshipers that by the time the film is over you just don't seem to care who ends up on the winning side. There is somewhat of a surprise ending that exposes just who's behind this attempt to bring Satan back on earth and those involved, besides being nutty as fruitcakes, unfortunately have the best scenes and lines in the movie.
****SPOILERS**** We do get to see Jesus, disguised as a angelic-looking blond Catholic school girl at the very end of the film. The girl stymies the Devil's spawn in her saving a Mother Superior whom the evil Satan had walk into traffic and get run down by a speeding car. What this minor event, compared to what we expected to see in the film, had to do with the final battle between good and evil is anyone's guess.
P.S Look out for the late Brad Davis as Dr. Tuchner who's one of the two pregnant girl's, Margaret Gallagher, church appointed physician.