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The Devil's Child is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Bobby Roth released in USA on 26 october 1997 with Kim Delaney
The Devil's Child (1997)
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Add to a movie listThe Devil's Child is a 1997 dramatic horror television movie. Written by Pablo F. Fenjves and Laurence Minkoff, and directed by Bobby Roth, the movie first aired on Lifetime Television in October 1997. It has had release in different countries under different titles, with a DVD commercial re-release in 2005.
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The mother of Nikki DeMarco (Kim Delaney) makes a pact with Satan to save her daughter's life after she has fallen from a building and nearly died. While a priest is performing the last rites, Lucifer appears, and says that he will spare her daughter's life if she promises that one day Nikki will bear his son, the Antichrist. Her mother agrees and the Devil saves Nikki. Years later, Nikki, now a successful photographer, is in a hospital watching over her mother who is now on her deathbed. Her mother tries to warn her of the impending evil, and dies. When Nikki touches her mother's crucifix her hand is burned. Nikki moves into a new apartment, not knowing that the room she is currently living in was the scene of a brutal murder years before. Nikki is skeptical of faith and religion and has become more and more isolated from spiritual ways of life.Actors
Kim Delaney
(Nikki DeMarco)
Gia Carides
(Eva)
Ivana Miličević
(Ivana Milavich)
Grace Zabriskie
(Rose DeMarco)
Thomas Gibson
(Alex)
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