The Devil's Child
| The Devil's Child | |
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Front cover of DVD
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| Directed by | Bobby Roth |
| Produced by | Mark S. Glick Pablo F. Fenjves Laurence Minkoff |
| Written by | Pablo F. Fenjves Laurence Minkoff |
| Starring |
Kim Delaney Gia Carides Ivana Miličević Grace Zabriskie |
| Music by | Christopher Franke |
| Cinematography | Shelly Johnson |
| Edited by | Henk Van Eeghen |
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Production
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Citadel Entertainment
Baumgarten-Prophet Entertainment |
| Distributed by |
ABC Columbia TriStar Warner Home Vídeo e-m-s the DVD-Company |
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Release date
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October 26, 1997 |
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Running time
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Devil's Child is a 1997 dramatic horror television movie. Written by Pablo F. Fenjves and Laurence Minkoff, and directed by Bobby Roth, the movie first aired on Lifetime Television in October 1997. It has had release in different countries under different titles, with a DVD commercial re-release in 2005.
The mother of Nikki DeMarco (Kim Delaney) makes a pact with Satan to save her daughter's life after she has fallen from a building and nearly died. While a priest is performing the last rites, Lucifer appears, and says that he will spare her daughter's life if she promises that one day Nikki will bear his son, the Antichrist. Her mother agrees and the Devil saves Nikki. Years later, Nikki, now a successful photographer, is in a hospital watching over her mother who is now on her deathbed. Her mother tries to warn her of the impending evil, and dies. When Nikki touches her mother's crucifix her hand is burned. Nikki moves into a new apartment, not knowing that the room she is currently living in was the scene of a brutal murder years before. Nikki is skeptical of faith and religion and has become more and more isolated from spiritual ways of life.
One night as she's leaving a bar after an argument with a coworker, Nikki storms off with the co-worker following her. He dies after being hit by a car and she is saved by a mysterious, handsome stranger. The next day she finds out that the stranger, Alexander Rotha (Thomas Gibson), lives across the hall from her. He is a theology professor at a prominent university. He and Nikki grow close and eventually become lovers. Meanwhile, the priest tries to warn Nikki of the evil that is after her, but is thrown from a room high above the church chapel by a gust of wind. Nikki witnesses this and is shocked. She then speaks with a priest named Father Domenico who knows something strange is going on. Nikki then visits Rotha's class in the university where he humiliates a female student by revealing her affair with a professor. No one knew about the affair, yet Rotha did. After seeing this other side of Rotha, Nikki decides she wants nothing to do with him.
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