7/10
"Don't let them get the girl".
6 January 2006
A cult crime about a mother named Jenna O' Conner (Angela Bettis) who ran away and left her daughter Cody (Holliston Coleman) with her Aunt, Maggie O' Conner (Kim Basinger). Maggie brought her up and she soon discovered that Cody had ADHD. And 3 years later, she had amazing abilities. For example, she could spin a bowl lid, spin a doll's car, make the snow in the paperweight move about, healed a pigeon, magically lit the candles in the church one by one, etc.

When Cody's babysitter, Maria (Anne Betancourt) said to Cody, if she prayed, good things would happen. On the following day, a child named Martin (Nicholas Marti Salgo) was kidnapped and found later at the bottom of the lake by police with a symbol of the devil on him! And soon, a girl named Cheri (Christina Ricci)ended up in Maggie doctor room. Cheri said that her friends wanted her to end up in a morgue because , she wanted to quit her club! She saw a vision that "they" were going to get the girl and she said to Maggie that she must NOT let them get the girl.

It was fascinating to hear what that satanic symbol symbolized. According to John Travis, the symbol was used in Ceremonial Sacrifices in the 16th century in Europe. The top symbolized Satanism because the fallen angel mythology was taken seriously. The crimes were against God and all the victims' bodies had the symbols which meant "Like Easter". What ever a man was up to on Easter's Eve. And on the following day, Cody and Maggie bumped into Jenna and her new husband Eric Stark (Rufus Sewell), a master of evil who kidnapped Cody.

After the incident, Cheri called and said she knew where Cody was. Cheri also told Maggie that Eric believed in the Devil and he was the one who always killing the kids on the 16th of December who were 6 years of age. He would put them through a test and if they failed, he would kill them. And Eric had been looking for Cody all along and he wanted to change her. Just to make her look like him! So he could use her power. And if Eric couldn't turn Cody into what he wanted her to be, he would kill her because she lead people to God! And on the same night, FREAKS came after Cheri! And when Maggie tried to call the cops, she was given an injection and she felt weary . And as the gang beat Cheri up in the train station, evil creatures were seen flying about. And when Maggie touched Cheri, CHERI"S HEAD FELL OFF!!! On the following day, Maggie found out where Eric stayed. Freaky to see demons flying around his lair. The nastiest killer that Eric had was named Stuart (Eugene Lipinski). And pretty creepy to Eric's odd looking eye. And also when Eric strangely removed bullets from Maggie's gun when she tried to shoot him. And she was knocked out by Stuart! And when she woke up, she was swerving past every car on Brooklyn Bridge and she crashed on the edge. And she was thankfully rescued when the car was going off the edge of the bridge.

And that night, Eric tempted a hobo (Dwaine McLean) with gas and matches through a Satanic practice. It was stopped when Cody said to the hobo that the Loed had not forgotten him and when the hobo opened his hand, a rosary was in it. And when Cody left, ERIC DROPPED A LIGHTER AND THE HOBO WENT ON FIRE! And then, Eric fooled Cody by becoming a Satanist if she did not believe in God, she must jump.

And soon, Travis uncovered Eric's tracks. And when Maggie and Cody were escaping from Eric's helper Dahyna (Dimitra Arliss). And once they got in, DAYHNA APPEARED AND WHEN SHE SMACKED THE WINDOW, SHE TURNED INTO A HIDEOUS DEMON! When Cody and Maggie went 30 miles South of Albany, they crashed and when Maggie told Codie to get out and run, Cody was caught by a limo and she was taken to an Old Estate, North of Albany. And back at Eric's house, under some kind of vision; The Forensic Detectives discovered Satanic symbols in pinkish-purple liquid. And at the Old Estate, Eric told Cody to join "them" if she wanted to live and her mother said, she should. And then, she made all the plates on the dinner table spin.

And when Maggie and Travis came over , Maggie saw Cody running away with a Voodoo group coming after her. And suddenly, one of them attacked Travis!Maggie followed Cody to a demonic church with demonic creatures flying around it. Abd when Maggie approached Cody, she hissed at her and the Voodoo group took Maggie into the Satanic church. And when everyone was inside, rats appeared and they flooded onto a thrown which everyone was facing and the Devil appeared and then evaporated.

Back at the church, Sister Joseph (Helen Stenborg) prayed at the convent. Cody was sitting on a table with Stuart holding a knife to her throat. And then, gas bombs broke in and Maggie stabbed Eric. And when Maggie tried to rescue Cody, she was shot by Eric and Cody healed her and angels appeared. And cops broke in, Travis shot Eric and he died, Stuart was shot and the angels disappeared. Maggie rescued Jenna , the church burnt down and everyone got out.

In the end, Jenna was in ReHab and she told Maggie to adopt Cody. And suddenly, one of the evil helpers appeared, whipped out a knife while they were looking at the church, Cody then turned around, stared at him, the evil helper stopped and he ran away! WOW!!!
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