21st Worst Movie: Bless the Child

“Bless the Child” Starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits and Rufus Sewell
Directed by Chuck Russell

Forgive Me Father, For I Have Sinned; It's Been 8 Days Since My Last Blog; Since Then, I Have Watched A Really Bad Movie...A Really Really Bad Movie
By Michele Dillon

Ahhh…Kim Basinger, my “favorite” actress in my “favorite” type of movie; horror/suspense/thriller/blah…a movie that does not know what type of movie it wants to be, if you will. Or a movie that tries to fit so many different ideas into one that it becomes un-comprehendible, if you will. Or a movie that is so horribly bad that I am really close to swearing off movies (I said CLOSE), if you will. I am beginning to think that I am a really negative person, and I am not sure if it came about from having to watch so many of these horrible movies or if its always been lingering there, waiting for me to pounce on the next easy target that came my way; that easy target being, almost every single movie on this list. Ok so here comes the part of the review where I actually have to review the movie (because if I dont, then this really wouldnt be a movie review blog...scowl).

The premise (or stupidest idea ever) of the movie is this one woman (Kim Basinger) who has a horrible sister who has a baby and a drug problem. She ditches the baby at her sister's house and so it comes to be that the woman raises her sister's child. But then some odd years later, the sister is back in the picture but she has this awful new husband who wants to take custody of the child and since technically…she is still her child, there is nothing Kim can really do…except, wait for it, fight to the death (not really) to keep the child away from the evil parents (something to do with the devil…and some kind of cult of missing children…blah, blah, blah). Are you still paying attention? Really you are? That was a bad decision on your part because you could have stopped reading at the first sentence and yet you still kept reading…maybe thinking that it was going to get better, or that I was going to make some kind of really funny joke? Well you have been failed on both parts and I only partially feel bad for you. You really should have stopped reading at the moment you saw that Kim Basinger was starring in this movie…I would have forgave you, I really would have.