Review – Stigmata

The Catholic Church hasn’t taken it this hard from a horror movie since The Exorcist. Actually, this one may be even worse, inasmuch as the plot revolves around a Vatican conspiracy to suppress the secret writings of Jesus. Caught up in the drama is a woman (Patricia Arquette, in her first horror movie in awhile) who has ecstatic visions and suffers from the title phenomena. In the end this film’s a little hard to pigeon-hole, falling somewhere between conspiracy thriller and theology-intensive horror flick. Whatever it is, it offers up a few interesting visuals (including some minor-league gore) and just enough plot to keep it moving until the end. Mildly amusing