Written by Pablo F. Fenjves and Laurence Minkoff, and directed by Bobby Roth, the film was first shown on ABC on October 26, 1997.

The mother of Nikki DeMarco (Kim Delaney) makes a pact with Satan to save her daughter's life after she has fallen from a building and nearly died.

While a priest is performing the last rites, Lucifer appears, and says that he will spare her daughter's life if she promises that one day Nikki will bear his son, the Antichrist.

When she awakens the next day, Nikki is in the apartment with her friend, who also has made a deal with the Devil, and has no choice but to knock her out with a pan to escape with the child.

The film had initial release in the United States in 1997, as La malédiction de Nikki in France in 1998 and again as recently as 2008,[2] Netherlands in 1999, and Sweden in 2001.

It has also been released as O Filho do Demônio (Brazil), Pahan lapsi (Finland) and as To moro tou Satana (Greece).

New York Daily News called the film "utterly predictable" and a "shameless rip-off of Rosemary's Baby".

[3] The Chicago Sun Times concurred, writing that Kim Delaney and Thomas Gibson were wasting "their acting talent and sex appeal in a trashy variation of Rosemary's Baby.