STIGMATA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - 1999

I just picked up this DVD for resale, so, I'm doing it... The story goes like this... A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building and then hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city! Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican finds her and then cares for her as she becomes increasingly afflicted. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest and he starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years. Filmed at Greystone Park & Mansion, Beverly Hills, CA.

The movie stars Patricia (ED WOOD) Arquette, Gabriel (GOTHIC) Byrne and Jonathan (BRAZIL) Pryce in this tale about the influence of the living Christ...

Our gal Frankie has just died on the operating table, but, miraculously comes back to life right before everyone's eyes! What in the Hell's going on?!

When she's riding on the subway, she becomes possessed and the train goes out of control. She assumes the pose of a crucifixion and everything goes off the rails!..

And, Frankie ends up in the hospital again, this time she's treated for whip lashes on her back! But, how in the Hell did she get those wounds?!

Later, at an office party (she's a hair dresser) Frankie goes through another phase of stigmata, then, runs out into traffic on a rainy night, creating much confusion and many wrecks!

Frankie becomes obsessed with writing a massive message in ancient script. That's when Father Kiernan meets up with her and wants to help her deal with her unearthly powers. The beautiful photography is fairly amazing throughout the movie.

Then it happens, Frankie falls for the Father and things really heat up!......

But, Father Kiernan doesn't exactly see it that way, so, she literally beats the crap out of him! She even tosses him the Hell into walls and furniture to get her point across.

She threatens the Father with that knife but ends up cutting through her own wrist, the place where a big old nail would be if she was being crucified!

All Heck breaks loose and Frankie assumes the crucification position while floating in air!

Father Kiernan must save Frankie from the horror and takes her out of the room of illusions.

Later, the Father finds an ancient scrolls and discovers that it has the same messages that Frankie had written on her wall... What the Hell?!!.. Anyway, check in tomorrow when Eegah!! will have a special post, all for us fellow Ruskies, da?!

GRIMM - Pilot Episode - "Not Your Usual Suspects" (2011)

  Here's an interesting show I missed the first time around! Good thing I've got friends in high places like Lord Litter to keep me better informed! If you like good music, do yourself a favor and go check out his Magic Music Box! In the meantime, welcome to another Wild Wednesday down in The Dungeon!

 

 Now that I'm flailing around in a morass of despair, I found out that I can watch 5 seasons of "Grimm" for nothing with my Amazon Prime account! Guess that should keep me busy for a while, like I ain't got nothing better to do!

 If you guessed this was Little Red Riding Hood, then you guessed right! You can bet there's going to be lots of fairy tale mind games going on!

 Sure is a lot prettier looking down on it than it is being in all that soup!

 There are a lot of Lycanthropic people out there, just like all those cannibals, and other secret societies that we don't know about!

 

Thank goodness we have Grimm (Nick Burkhardt), Davis Giuntoli, a cop with an amazing ability to see the real evil in people!

 I haven't watched real time TV in years much except for "Breaking Bad,"The Walking Dead," "Twin Peaks" and an occasional boxing match, so forgive my ignorance on the existence of this show! Looks like I've missed out on some good shit, so pass it on over to me!

 Rule number one: Don't piss off the guy who looks like a monster in the ancient book if he's really trying to maintain!

 I call this painting "Volkswagen Bus Crossing The River At Midnight!"

 Pretty shocking what an insulated world I live in! In the six years that "Grimm" has been on TV all over the world, not a single person has ever spoke to me about it! Never! Not Once! Nada, Nichts!

 Maybe they're just all too scared of the truth!

 It looks like something from a fairy tale, but it's really a nightmare destination!

 Big time nerd freak-o-zoid!

 When you're this big of an A-hole, just getting killed isn't that bad, because he deserved a lot worse!

Not just The End, this is the

Dead End!! There's no turning back or re-winding from here!
The future is now!!!!

The HORROR And SCI-FI MOVIES Of JERRY WARREN 1956-81

Here's a list of Jerry Warren horror and sci-fi flicks. Photos of Jerry are very rare, above, we see him in a cameo sitting behind John Carradine in a plane in THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD. Also, get this, he can be seen as 'Jitterbug' in GHOST CHASERS from 1944, so, check that one out if you're curious like us!

We start with MAN BEAST from 1956, an okay movie. I still have this poster in my collection, but, It's a Canadian censored version and has dark blue poster paint covering the woman's crotch!! Ah, the good old days...

Then we have THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD from 1959, besides John Carradine and Robert Clarke, this weird flick also stars Phyllis (ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) Coates and Sheila (BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE) Noonan!

I don't know how many times I have to say this, but, TEENAGE ZOMBIES from 1959 is my favorite Warren flick, he even reuses music from KRONOS!! Love this one...

Here's the double bill poster from INVASION OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE and TERROR OF THE BLOODHUNTERS, both from 1962. He manages to mangle TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN by adding his new footage and Bloodhunters is one of the weakest movies I've ever seen!

In 1964, Jerry adds his new footage to the Mexican LA CASA DEL TERROR to create FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF and makes it confusing as Hell! Lon Chaney stars as the Wolfman...

Also in 1964, Jerry works his magic with ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY, using footage from the Mexican MAYAN MUMMY series. I was looking at this poster and realized that the images are from THE PHARAOH'S CURSE!!

in 1965, Jerry reworks two Chilean titles, the first adapted from Poe's "The Suicide Club," the second, a tale of young siblings dominated by their evil elder brother, and comes up with the title, CURSE OF THE STONE HAND. I swear, this is one of the most confusing films, nearly (or, fully) unwatchable, YOW!!

Also in 1965 Jerry mangles another Mexican title with CREATURE OF THE WALKING DEAD. One interesting thing is that he uses the term... Walking Dead!!

Again in 1965, he films HOUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH, starring John Carradine, Lon Chaney, Tom (THE CYCLOPS) Drake and Dolores (PHANTOM PLANET) Faith. Doesn't even come close to saving this dingy tale!

I guess Jerry was smoking pot when he came up with THE WILD WORLD OF BAT WOMAN starring Katherine Victor in 1966, because, this is one insane flick, MST tears it a new ass hole to boot!

Jerry finishes his career with FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND in 1981. Man, I don't even know where to start with this one!! Embarrassing roles for John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie and Cameron Mitchell. Just the worst, way too long at 97 minutes!! Okay then, tune in Wednesday for more weird junk from the Dungeon Gang!