Bless the Child
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| Directed by | Chuck Russell |
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| Based on | Bless the Child by Cathy Cash Spellman |
| Produced by | Mace Neufeld |
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| Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| Edited by | Alan Heim |
| Music by | Christopher Young |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $65 million |
| Box office | $40 million |
| Author | Cathy Cash Spellman |
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| Illustrator | Cathy Cash Spellman |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Cathy Cash Spellman |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Wild Harp & Company Inc |
| Pages | 536 |
| ISBN | 9780615517254 |
Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell, and starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. Based on the 1993 novel by Cathy Cash Spellman, it follows a woman who discovers that her niece, whom she has adopted, is being sought by a Satanic cult seeking to use her supernatural abilities. The film is a co-production between the United States, Canada and Germany.
Filmed in Toronto in late 1999, Bless the Child was released theatrically in North America on August 11, 2000, to overwhelmingly negative critical reviews, and was a box-office bomb.