 | Themes
 | Demons/Satan, Good Samaritan,
Temptation of Christ, Spiritual Struggle
 | From the producer of "The Omen" (Mace Neufeld), this
film has good and evil battle in a way unique to most movies of this
genre: while evil gets in its punches, good fights back with equal
and eventually superior power. A small girl with uniqie spiritual
gifts, being raised by an aunt who has lost touch with the faith of
her own childhood, is the focus of the film. The scriptural scene of
Christ's Temptation is replayed with a most interesting twist.
Scenes centered on Good Samaritans abound in the film. (Best Good
Samaritan scene: the satanic cult's leader, in the Temptation scene,
tells the girl to jump off a tall building, to prove God is really
there to save her-- with the assertion of Satan being there, and God
being "just a nice idea." The girl eventually turns away
from the ledge, sits, and says to the satanist: "After
you." Next scene, the girl is being liberated from the satanic
cult, and they are running into the subway. The train's doors are
closing, and it looks like they'll miss the train and be caught by
the satanists. At the last second, an umbrella pokes into the
train's door, causing it to re-open. The umbrella's holder, a woman,
looks at the child, smiles, and says "After you." I can
find a hundred homilies in that 10 minutes of film.) (Jack Everman) |
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