666: The Child (2006) Reviews

• Surrounded by Death (and Bad Acting)

  claudio_carvalho2010-05-02

  After a plane crash where a boy is the only survival, the famous anchor Erika Lawson (Sarah Lieving) convinces her husband and cameraman Scott (Adam Vincent) to adopt the child. They bring Donald (BooBoo Stewart) home and Scott's father Big Jake (Robert D Mcewen) offers to take care of him while the couple works. However, after a series of bizarre accidents that culminates with the death of Jake, the nanny Lucy Fir (Nora Jesse) comes to the Lawson's home to work. However, Lucy is actually a follower of the Anti-Christ and together with Donald, they bring more tragedies to the Lawson's family. "666 – The Child" is a terrible low-budget rip-off of "The Omen". The awful screenplay has also bad acting and poor special effects and the result is a stupid flawed and annoying film. The conclusion is ridiculous. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): "666 – O Filho do Mal" ("666 – The Son of the Evil")

• Really bad The Omen rip-off.

  poolandrews2008-01-19

  666: The Child starts as a plane crashes, the only survivor of flight 666 was a young boy named Donald (Boo Boo Stewart) who is adopted by news reporter Erika (Sarah Lieving) & her cameraman husband Scott Lawson (Adam Vincent) after they covered the incident for Channel 6 news. At first Donald seems like any normal kid but death seems to follow him around, after warnings from a Nun & Vicar Scott begins to believe that Donald is evil & the cause of all the deaths... This straight-to-DVD horror flick was directed by Jake Perez under the pseudonym Jake Jackson & one has to say 666: The Child is really rather poor. Whenever I see The Asylum is responsible for a film I get worried, I get very worried since their track record is awful. They seem to specialise in making &/or distributing low budget horror films which are usually rip-offs of some recent successful big budget horror film & in the case of 666: The Child you don't need a degree in rocket science to realise that it's a complete rip-off to cash in on the recent The Omen (2006) which was released the same year. The script by Benjamin Henry & Austin Laurel is terrible & simply can't match the ambitions of the the Hollywood equivalent, I mean just what exactly does Donald the Antichrist expect to achieve from a middle class family in a small town? It's hardly a great starting point to bring about the destruction of thew world is it? Every character in 666: The Child is some form of the main character's from The Omen, the adopted parents, the Priest who tries to warn them & the sinister babysitter. There's a real lack of incident, there's barely any gore & the plot is poor. I mean Donald killing a dentist because they were trying to fix his teeth is just so random & needless, what were all the disgusting pictures Donald drew all about, where did the babysitter come from & there's just nothing that ties everything together & it's just a disjointed mess that just becomes very boring very quickly. The references to the number 6 also becomes annoying & are very unsubtle. Director Perez does alright I suppose, it's competent if nothing else. There's virtually no blood or gore, there's a few sprays of blood, a cut off hand & someone gets a circular saw stuck in their face but it sounds a lot better than it looks on screen. It's certainly not scary, there's no atmosphere thanks to a throughly bland contemporary setting in a suburban house & there's no tension because we never really know what Donald is trying to do & there fore there's no threat from him. Technically the film is alright, it's reasonably well made but since the actual film is so poor it makes little difference. The acting isn't that great but at the same time I've seen worse. 666: The Child is a poor mans The Omen rip-off, I'd sooner watch either the original or the remake over this any day of the week. Not good & definitely not recommended. Followed by the sequel 666: The Beast (2007) which also went straight-to-DVD.

• What the hell?????

  MrMyron2006-06-21

  I actually like Asylum movies. I've made it a habit to see as many as possible. Even the rip-offs they've done have been cool like EXORCISM And WHEN A KILLER CALLS. This is just plain lame. I can't believe that the same people who made DEAD MEN WALKING and DRACULA'S CURSE actually made this movie too!!! It's not even laughably bad like JOLLY ROGER or ALIEN ABDUCTION (which, by the way are pretty bad). This is just BAD! I mean, I can appreciate and/or forgive bad acting or lame special effects in an Asylum movie, but this film takes itself way too seriously. I really hope that SNAKES ON A TRAIN is better. Now that's a movie I can't wait to see.

• A Real Horror...

  JoeytheBrit2007-05-22

  This is one of those sorry movies that are so bad they're not even good in a bad sort of way. They're just plain bad. At times it plays like one of those Naked Gun style parodies so that, at any moment, you expect Leslie Neilsen to come tripping out with a comical expression on his face. An obvious cheap rip-off of The Omen, 666 doesn't even try to add anything to the original's template, it simply sketches over the same details like a six-year-old child tracing over a Michelangelo with a stubby pencil. Logic goes out the window early on as a TV anchor woman who is prone to getting emotional on-air adopts a child who is the only survivor of the crash of Flight 7666. Before you can say boo boo people are dying all over the place, although nobody quite manages to put two and two together (even when a dentist and his assistant both get drilled in the eye when trying to work on the kid it is just blithely dismissed as an accident in the following scene). Things don't get any better as the film progresses. All the adults are so stupid they deserve to die, and little Damien – er, Donald – who at some point is joined by a nanny called Lucy Fir, is too bland to be the anti-Christ. Blood flies against walls in illuminous red so bright you can imagine it glowing in the dark, and eventually everyone dies. Except for Donald – er, Damien; no – Donald. He survives for the sequel that we must all pray never gets made…

• Bottom #1

  Absoli2006-05-30

  Well this just maybe the worst movie ever at least the worst movie i have ever seen. They have tried out these 666 child of Satan the anti Christ kinda movies about 1000 times and none of them is good and this just maybe the worst of them. They think that it's going to be better movie as more they use that fake blood. This movie doesn't have any idea in it, actors and filming is just terrible. Cant even make out that 10 line minium of this movie. Really nothing to tell about but that it's just horrible. How they can make movies like that in their right mind just can't understand that. This cant be a Hollywood movie, is it? Just don't go watch this use your money more wisely.