A jet airliner plummets from the sky and into the Earth.  From the burning embers rises one lone survivor - a small boy.  The childless couple that adopts him will soon discover he is no helpless child, but rather something very powerful, something very dark.  This boy is The Beast and with him he carries the beginning of the end...

Such is the premise for 666 The Child.  I stayed away from this for a few months after getting burned out on The Omen, but it finally came time to come out of the closet and admit I like yet another one of Asylum's mock horror movies.

Asylum sorta owns the beat-up face of horror distribution, sticking its low-budget instant remakes out there for the world to crack at without shame.  But I gotta tell ya - Im not one of them.  Im starting to like this shit.  If you want The Omen - hell, go get The Omen!  There's a few to choose from.  If you want something like The Omen, well 666 The Child aint too freakin bad by today's standards.

This lone survivor of the forementioned plane crash is (dont laugh) Donald the antichrist, played by (dont laugh) Boo Boo Stewart.  Boo Boo aint no Shamus (from Omen 2006).  But he is dishing out some pretty gorey death scenes.  Dental drills to the eyes, pipes cracking open skulls, steam melting off faces - even lawnmowers shredding off limbs - all with plenty of gushing bright red blood.

The story of the orphan "child" being taken in by a reporter and her boyfriend cameraman, is parallel Omen, complete with the "Blaylock nanny" Lucy, played by a seductive Nora Jesse.  This nanny aint some old shrew - she's hot and sexy and naked too.  And while the ending is extremely familiar, in the end you have to ask yourself, "Why is the supreme lord of darkness and Hell chilling in an apartment eating cookies and milk, killing these nobodys?  Why is there even a struggle?"  But were you expecting a novel to wrap your brain around, really? 

Final Analysis:  If this came out in theaters wide with a promising trailer, Id rip this film a new rear - but its Aslyum.  Its 666 The Child being released on DVD the same week The Omen remake is released in theaters.  You know what you're getting into.  Sarah Lieving, who plays anchorwoman Erika Lawson is a looker, and is sufficient like the rest of the cast - until emotion gets involved in the acting, and the amateurisms shine through.  But its cool enough.  The story's familiar enough to the average moviegoer that you dont have to think very hard while coasting through 80 minutes of occasional violent and gorey deaths.  Unless you're someone who likes to sit there and pick at imperfections, instead of just sitting back and enjoying a movie - in my book, as a horror fan, you could do worse.