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| Was it Magic, Murder, or Madness? Across the rolling farmlands of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, a 16-year-old boy races home through the mist. His life is simple, the world around him safe. Then, one day, he meets a backwoods faith healer, and the boy is slowly dragged deep into events far more terrifying than any he could have ever imagined. Donald Sutherland, who has starred in such hits as “Ordinary People”, “M*A*S*H” and “Clute”, is Dr. John Reese, a strange traveling preacher who enters Billy Kelly’s life with claims of carrying the Lord’s gift. When Billy (played by Chad Lowe in his motion picture debut) becomes drawn to Reese’s mystical charms, the healer agrees to take the boy under his wing and helps – in his own way – to educate him. At the same time, Billy also begins to see more of Alice Spangler, and their tentative relationship soon becomes a growing romance. Alice (played by Mia Sara) desperately wants more from life than ‘just this small village and makes plans to leave with Billy. In the midst of this, on one of the local farms, the farm animals begin to die. And no one can explain it. Soon a young girl also takes ill and dies mysteriously. Billy goes to Dr. Reese and pleads with his mentor for help. If anyone can stop the blight, Reese can. Reese believes a bizarre local hermit has both the motive and the satanic power to cause the blight. Reese draws himself, Billy and the hermit into a mysterious and dangerous web of deception and violence, which will complete Billy’s apprenticeship – to murder. |
