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Released
2000 · FILM

Bless the Child

A woman fights to protect the autistic niece she's come to love, as a Satanic cult abducts the child to harness her mysterious powers on the same date as a series of murdered children.

Mankind's last hope just turned six.

Directed by
Runtime
107 min
CrimeDramaHorror

Synopsis

When Maggie's sister Jenna places an autistic newborn named Cody in her care, Maggie's heart is touched, and Cody becomes the daughter she has always longed for. Six years later, Jenna suddenly re-enters Maggie's life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Although Maggie has no legal claim to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause after discovering that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan HeimShot by Peter Menzies JrScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by Carol Spier

Box Office

2000 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$40.4M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$40.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $29.4M 73% of worldwide · International: $11.1M (27%)

Opening weekend: $9.4M 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $13.2M45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,524 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Prophezeiungde
  • Good Vibrations - Sex vom anderen Sternde
  • L'Éluefr
  • La mossa del diavoloit

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