Horrid Marketing


I have only walked out on three movies in my entire life and I am closing in on 40. Had I not been at the movies with my mom to watch this movie, I would have walked out.

I am not surprised it is rated so low, but I think it's biggest problem was it was marketed as a different movie. Whenever a studio does this, it is because they know their story is not solid enough to sell itself. So they created a set of commercials that built the girl in the story up to seem confident and somewhat powerful. The whole "after you" comment before jumping was displayed on the commercial as a strong statement of will, when in the movie it was a nervous and scared child who has no idea what to do.

I can deal with a bad movie. I can't deal with a studio lying to me as to what the movie is in order for me to go see it.

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Boohoo

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https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2000-2/bless-the-child/

Bless The Child was greenlit during a deluge of other idiotic movies dealing with Satanic shenanigans, including End Of Days, Stigmata, Lost Souls and the not quite idiotic, but far from Polanski’s best The Ninth Gate. Following Kim Basinger’s Oscar winning turn in L.A. Confidential, she signed onto two critical and commercial misfires I Dreamed of Africa and Bless The Child.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BoxOfficeBomb/NumbersThroughB

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http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/6372

Needless to say, this movie is going to tank soundly. The trailers have been trying desperately to paint this as some sort of "The Sixth Sense" knock-off, but "Bless the Child" has virtually NOTHING in common with that movie. "Bless the Child" is a B-movie that should've gone straight-to-video. At one time, there might've been some hope that they could've done some sort of "Rosemary's Baby"-esque thriller or something, but everything got muddled as the story never really had a direction. It never even explains why Maggie is seeing the same things Cody is, but no one else can.


http://www.electricstory.com/bless-the-child.html

https://classic-horror.com/reviews/bless_the_child_2000

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2000-08-11-0008110007-story,amp.html

http://splicedwire.com/00reviews/blesschild.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/18/movies/movie-guide.html

http://www.thefilmfile.com/reviews/b/00_blessthechild.htm

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2000/08/10/without-a-prayer

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