End of Days
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End of Days is a 1999 action/horror film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Peter Hyams. It also featured Robin Tunney, Rod Steiger, Kevin Pollak, CCH Pounder, Udo Kier and Gabriel Byrne as Satan.
Plot
In the year 1979, a newborn girl named Christine York is patronised by satanists (two of which are revealed later on as Dr. Abel, Christine's Doctor; and Mabel, Christine's guardian) after they see a symbol on her arm, identifying her as the one chosen to bear Satan's son during the last hour on New Year's Eve, 1999.Twenty years later, not so long before the end of 1999, a retired policeman, Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger) is assigned to protect a Wall Street banker (Byrne) from a rogue priest named Thomas Aquinas (played by Derrick O'Connor), who is eventually captured and taken to a mental hospital. Later on, the banker's body is taken over by the ghost of Satan and the banker becomes Satan himself. According to some scars Satan later inflicts on Aquinas' body (after sneaking into the hospital to "visit" him), Jericho and his friend Chicago (Pollak) see the name "Christine York" scratched into Aquinas' skin.
Jericho and Chicago visit the now-fully-grown Christine (Tunney) in her apartment, but only after saving her life from a group of Vatican Knights in the nick of time. That evening, while Jericho is still with Christine and Chicago waiting outside, Satan arrives and blows Chicago to bits in his van. As Jericho and Christine try to escape, they are stopped by Mabel (Miriam Margolyes), and later by Jericho's superior Marge (CCH Pounder), both servants of Satan. Jericho kills them both, and he and Christine escape to a nearby church to find some answers from Jericho's friend, Father Kovak (Rod Steiger).
Tagline: The end is coming.
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