Child of Darkness, Child of Light

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C. Group, Inc. </B></div> <div> <B>& Wilshire Court Productions, Inc./Rated PG-13</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Marina Sargenti (</B><I><B>Mirror, Mirror</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Teleplay.........Brian Taggert</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Jay Gruska</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Paul Tucker</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel "Virgin" by James Patterson</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Roy Downey</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>(Not Available)   Anthony J. Denison (</B><I><B>Amy Fisher Story, Full Eclipse</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Brad Davis (</B><I><B>Blood Ties, Campus Corpse, Midnight Express</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Paxton Whitehead (</B><I><B>Boris and Natasha, Chips the War Dog</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Claudette Nevins (</B><I><B>The Mask, The Possessed</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Sydney Penny (</B><I><B>Bernadette, Hyper Sapien, Running Away</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Kristin Dattilo</B></div> <div> <B>                  Alan Oppenheimer (</B><I><B>Macbeth, Riding With Death,Trancers 4</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Eric Christmas (T</B><I><B>he Philadelphia Experiment</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                  Richard McKenzie</B></div> <div> <B>John L. Lucas III...Joshua Lucas</B></div> <div> <B>Ida Walsch...........Viveca Lindfors (</B><I><B>Creepshow, The Way We Were, Voices</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Sister Anne..........Sela Ward (</B><I><B>The Fugitive, Hello Again, Steele Justice</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Josh.....................Joe Ivy </B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Becker............Richard Wiltshire</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Once again the struggle for the domination of the earth is played out between good and evil, this time the key being for the Catholics to find out which virgin gives birth to the child of light, and which gives birth to the child of darkness. This has proven to be a more or less no lose formula, and this film is no exception. It doesn't hurt, of course, that the direction, film quality and musical score are first rate. Watching the clergy succumb to madness and sin in the face of the trickster holds an endless fascination for us. It is impossible to know until the end which perfect virgin will give birth to which heir to the throne. The viewer is pulled and pushed in second guessing the facts based upon horror movie tropes right along with the characters. An evolving trope here is that of the Golden Retriever, the most popular dog is becoming God's dog, as counterpart to the scariest dog, the Rotweiler, which has been Satan's familiar since the Omen series. It is strange that the Virgin left such a pile of letters behind to give birth herself to such an appalling struggle, but I guess the world has to prove it's worth saving. It's touching that she is so concerned about the problems confronting the inevitable Vatican investigators. Too bad about the very end. So often it seems too difficult to just let a good movie end without adding a baffling "tag" ending that is supposed to scare you but only leaves you angry. Cut out the last four seconds, and this film would have been a real chiller. No doubt the ABC editors got hold of that last scene. Still, another strong made for TV movie. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Briscayne Falls Pennsylvania. Father Rosetti is attacked by men on motorcycles dressed in black whom he kills only by ramming with his car. It appears that they turn into ravens. He screams, driven "chicken mad". Vatican city. Father Justin comes to visit Father Rosetti. Father Rosetti only mumbles since the accident. Father Rosetti had been investigating a message sent by Our Lady at the Villa Fontina announcing there will be a virgin birth which may have been realized in Pennsylvania. Justin is to look into a message which was to be read at the beginning of the last decade of this century. The question is whether the event is authentic. The message warns of all sorts of risks for those who investigate it. Guarini is to be Justin's guide. Trinity school, Briscayne falls, Pennsylvania. Justin O'Carell asks about Margaret, an earnest, honest Catholic School student who is pregnant. The town folk offer that it must have been a boy from the city. Justin keeps a journal, trying to decide whether this is just a performance or a possible virgin conception. Someone seems to be watching him. The doctor says Margaret Gallagher is still "intact". Her vaginal tissue is untouched. The agnostic doctor has no explanation. The boys of the town stop Margaret on the street and give her a hard time until the main offender suddenly starts bleeding from the eye. In the chapel, Margaret feels early labor pains and a raven and a man in a dark suit stand over her. Margaret reports that she has had visions of people dying. The doctor points out the headline that a new polio has broken out killing thousands. With the verification, Justin opens a second message. This one says there will be two virgin births, one good, and one evil. The second case one is in Boston. Justin's off to Massachusetts. Father Rosetti still isn't talking. Justin shows up in Boston working now with Sister Anne. Kathleen is the next subject. There is a question about a boy she was close to back in January and there has been extensive gossip. Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, Margaret is struggling with a series of mini-plagues. While doing some gardening, she sees a raven and walks toward a voice in the shed, where is locked in, and it's crawling with pigeons. Later, bees are drawn to her and she hurries away. She opens a hedge and two ravens fly out, startling her. The boys, including the one who lost his eye, decide to have some fun with Margaret. Michael pretends to hang himself but the trick goes sour. Likewise, the entire world is experiencing death and real plagues, looking very much like an apocalypse. Kathleen still won't talk about the incident with the boy at the prom. Out for a walk, Kathleen also hears ravens and faints, seeing the dark man before she blacks out. The maid Ida has a vision of Kathleen standing next to a pillar of fire in the mirror. Ida insists that Kathleen is not one of God's children. Sister Anne squeezes the truth out of Kathleen--it was John L. Jordan, a senior at the the Catholic school. Kathleen's trusted golden retriever attacks her viciously. Sister Anne approaches John about the dance. John testifies that Kathleen is no longer a virgin. However, he doesn't seem to be an entirely credible witness and may be covetous of his reputation as a lady's man. Kathleen says that John couldn't perform on that night. Sister Anne is starting to feel lust for Father Justin. Ida suffers a possession spell while cutting carrots and starts cutting her fingers as well. A raven appears at Margaret's hospital bed. John goes to confess that he was impotent that time, walking away with a bit of blood trickling from his mouth. Sister Anne has lost it entirely, accusing Kathleen of having seduced Justin. When the higher priest in charge of the cases reads Anne's report he finds it's full of obscenities. Finally, when Anne comes to dinner naked she's taken off the case. At a lacrosse game, the braggart John falls over with blood hemorrhages from him. Polio venis. while the dark man skulks behind a tree. That night, Ida comes at Kathleen with a knife and upon this, the climax of immaculate births ensues.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>