There will be a mix of different genres; horror, drama, comedy, action, porn...(nah just kidding). Some of the reviews are from older movies, some more recent ones.
Well I might give you all one now as an appetizer.
Stigmata.
Frankie Page, played by Patricia Arquette, lives her life without any bigger trouble, besides the rain then, it always rain in Philladelphia...at least in this movie it does.
Before I go any further into this review, a sidestep and explain what stigamata is.
Francis of Assisi, was, accordingly to the catholic church The first who suffered from stigmatisation.
"Stigmata is the plural of the Greek word stigma meaning a mark or brand such as might have been used for identification of an animal or slave. An individual bearing stigmata is referred to as a stigmatic.
So, people who have been stigmatised, out of from nowhere the get wounds on their feets and hands, bleeding wounds. Some say that are a sign from God or Jesus and the stigmated one are blessed, in some way."
Over to the movie now shall we?
Frankie and her friend takes the subway late one night when Frankie gets whipped multible times across her back. People are chocked, but a priest thinks he knows what he saw. So he sents for father Kiernan ( Gabriel Byrne - who irronicly the same year played the devil in end of days) from the Vatican in Italy, he will find out if Frankie should be considering a saint, or simply a hoax.
Now this wouldn´t be a interresting movie, if it wasn´t for the fact that Frankie, she doesn´t believe in Jesus. So who or whom makes her bleed?
This movie was made back in 1999, the time when all hip movies was to be made as if it was a musicrockvideo suitable for MTV...unfortunatly, Stigmata suffers from that also.
It does however avoid from the major horror cliche´s, Tom Lazarus (director) and Rick Ramage (script) actually try to tell a story and entertain/scare at the same time. Becouse, let´s face it, either you are religious or not, when they have theese kind of "entitys" in horror movies, that is scary. Simple fact; How the hell do you, as a humanbeing confront/battle/win over an God a Devil? You might be bound to loose..
To be honest with all of you I saw this in august/september 2002, it didn´t scare me - it was more interresting and exciting. I gave it a 3 out of 5. I guess it can work today, if the movie had aged well so to speak.
Since I am a huge fan of The Exorcist and Omen (the originals god dammit!!!!!!) I might like Stigmata even more a second time, who knows if I don´t like it; I might be stigmatised...
Possible spoiler:
From what I remember from the movie Kiernan has been only a bit in an puzzle and they (Frankie and Kiernan) are about to reveal what christianity is all about - the church Will loose their power over people If...If Kiernan finds out what is going on.
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