![]() ![]() ![]() Wood never adequately explains Amy's power (except through some mumbo jumbo about a substance X-the cold thing?-in Amy's body) and seems unsure about Amy's relationship to it does she control it, or it her? The power remains unknown to all but hapless Uncle Jonathan until Amy enters Levin's home and meets her nemesis: Levin's sociopathic son Paulie. ![]() Detective Joe Levin frees her from the closet and takes such a shine to her that he ends up adopting her but not until Amy gets back at Dad by visiting him in jail (he's been arrested for the killing) and mind-ordering him to attack a guard, who splatters Dad all over the walls. Fortunately, her clairvoyant Uncle Jonathan, inmate of an insane asylum, picks up the bad vibes and persuades his shrink to call the cops. ![]() Amy watches through the keyhole, and for the next two days, as she peers at Mom's decaying body, something cold and malignant grows in the closet with her. Why has horror author Wood-who proved capable of some originality in The Killing Gift, The Tribe, and Lightsource-decided to add to the brood of deadly children that litters post-Exorcist occult fiction by spawning yet another terrible tot? Particularly one whose powers of ""mental domination"" are as old hat as last decade's comic books? Eight-year-old Amy is the calamitous kid in question, introduced by Wood in the first of several violence/sex exploitation scenes by having her rummy dad lock her in a kitchen closet just before he beats her mom to death. ![]()
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