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British sleaze artist Pete Walker applies his characteristic sleazy, ultra-violent touch to this audacious, Catholic-bashing tale. A deranged, sex-mad priest (Anthony Sharpe) exploits the sanctity of ... read more read more...his office as a means of harassing young women who confide their sins in his confessional, recording their confessions in order to blackmail them into doing his vile bidding. Eventually, evidence of these transgressions reaches other members of his parish (including his mother), prompting him to bump them off in creative ways, utilizing the trappings of his profession -- strangulation by rosary, arsenic-laced communion wafers, bludgeoning by incense burner, etc. Much criticism has been leveled against this film for its unabashed attacks on Catholicism, but it's really Walker's trademark amoral approach to filmmaking that elicits a strong urge to take a hot bath after viewing. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Directed by: Pete Walker

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DVD Release Date: February 28, 2006

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  • tk7and7is
    October 4, 2007
    tk7and7is
    I'm so in love with Walker's FRIGHTMARE that this engaging but credibility-stretching thriller can't help but let me down a bit. Still worth a look, though.

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Ted Shen
January 1, 2000
Ted Shen, Chicago Reader

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August 16, 2005
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