It was a sad, sad season when this sorry spawn of "The Exorcist" was spun. This Spanish cheapie is just a tacky telenovela with satanist overlay. The child is barely that, on the edge of puberty, but with an infantile attachment to her Teddy Bear, which comes in handy to stow the satanic phallic symbol given her by that nice gypsy lady who appeared out of nowhere, dressed, coiffed and made up like something out of a Viennese operetta. The English translation, is the most stilted and least conversational possible, directly from the original Spanish, which is itself a model of stupidity.,The girl's father has the stringiest comb-over smashed across his head ever seen on screen, and, in the midst of all the paranormality, he, a doctor, and a priest (natch), discuss molecular theory, inherited memory, Plato's Anima Mundi, strong chemical tranquilizers on their bearing on his daughter's psychopathological crisis. Effects, if you can call them that, are entirely ineffective: objects thrown and furniture pushed from off camera to suggest demonic presence, and worse. And after all this mess, exorcism, with one half hic of a cup, comes off way too quick-n-ez.
Review of Demon Witch Child
