Blessed (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Simon Fellows |
| Produced by | Alan Bursteen Robert Mearns Vlad Păunescu Andrew Reimer |
| Written by | Robert Mearns (story) Jayson Rothwell |
| Starring |
Heather Graham James Purefoy |
| Music by | Stephen Jones |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Kosuth |
| Edited by | Kant Pan |
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Production
company |
Syndicate Films
Andrew Stevens Entertainment K/W Productions |
| Distributed by |
DEJ Productions Warner Home Video (DVD, USA) |
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Release date
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16 May 2004 (Cannes Film Market) 20 October 2004 (Screamfest Film Festival) 14 December 2004 (DVD, USA) |
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Running time
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98 min |
| Country |
Romania United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Blessed is a 2004 British/Romanian horror film directed by Simon Fellows starring Heather Graham and James Purefoy.
The story begins with the Howards, a young, married couple living in New York. Craig (James Purefoy), an unpublished writer, and Samantha (Heather Graham), a school teacher, are desperate to have a baby. Their hopes are dashed when Samantha is diagnosed as infertile and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Just when it seems their dreams are impossible, the couple are given the opportunity to receive free treatments from a new, and relatively unheard of, fertility clinic. The Spiritus Research Clinic is in Lakeview, a small town two hours away, and they move to the clinic.
It soon becomes clear something is amiss. In the laboratory where the couple's eggs and sperm samples are being mixed, the scientist takes a large, engraved metal needle and injects a red substance into Craig's sperm without the couple's knowledge. After the treatments, they are overjoyed when it is discovered Samantha is pregnant with twins.
Earlier in the film, Craig was introduced at a party to book publisher Earl Sidney. Suddenly the publisher wants to publish Craig's book and offers Craig $100,000 as an advance.
The pregnant Samantha begins feeling unusually painful scratching from the unborn twins. She is also suspicious of her husband's new business associate and friend. She feels ignored and distanced from Craig.
Meanwhile, a hooded stranger begins stalking Samantha. Samantha becomes friends with a priest, Father Carlo. It is him who tells Samantha she is the unknowing victim of a pact with evil. The book publisher and the scientists at the clinic are connected to "The New Light of Dawn" church, a secret devil-worshiping cult. The red liquid injected into the Howards' test-tube pregnancy was the Devil's DNA. The cult plans to kidnap the babies shortly after birth and raise them to eventually destroy mankind. Father Carlo tells Samantha to drink a poison that will kill the babies, but she smashes the glass against his face. The crazed priest is also the hooded figure that has been following Samantha and sets the motel room he had taken her to on fire. He then gets in a car and drives away towards the clinic, with the intention to destroy it. He crashes through one operating room to another until crashing into Dr. Leeds' office. Gasoline spills on the priest as he tells the doctor "He who walks with Satan shall burn in Hell" and then sets himself on fire with a lighter. Prior to destroying the clinic, however, we see that Earl Sidney has already left the clinic with the metal container containing the blood of Lucifer.
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