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Resurrection (1999)

1999 • 1h 48m • R
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4/10 · Aug 30, 2022

Resurrection feels like a copy of Se7en, sharing its gloomy atmosphere with constant rain, but lacking any real intelligence—it’s all shock value. Instead of focusing on the seven deadly sins, the killer chooses victims based on their names, targeting five apostles; apparently, including all twelve would have taken too much time. The villain collects body parts from his victims to “rebuild the boy of Christ.” Rebuilding? Jesus was crucified, not subjected to a gruesome execution; why would his body require reconstruction? It’s a different matter entirely if it were any of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Around the midpoint of the film, the killer sends Detective John Prudhomme (Christopher Lambert) a tape. A portion of this recording is shown on television news, and a woman living in an apartment building recognizes the voice as belonging to one of her neighbors, who she describes as “a very nice guy”—though she adds that many serial killers are probably like him. The plot takes a turn that would be clever if it weren’t so foolish: the neighbor is revealed to be blind and was paid by the actual killer to create the tape. Seriously. According to this woman, numerous serial killers are both “nice guys” and blind. Perhaps she believed he was acting, but shouldn't something like that have been mentioned to the police? Despite all of this absurdity, it does eventually lead somewhere; those who stick with the movie will be treated to some of the most disturbing and sacrilegious imagery ever seen in a horror film, followed by one of the most ridiculous. The unsettling visuals appear when the nearly complete "FrankenChrist" is presented. I use the term ‘nearly finished’ because the killer requires the heart of an infant born after midnight on Easter to a woman named Mary. Do you follow? Let me try to make sense of this. The villain intends to “rebuild” Christ's body in time for Resurrection Sunday—implying, like everything else, an adult Jesus—but he’s going to give it the heart of a baby? It’s complete chaos with no logical basis, but it culminates in the second unforgettable (though for very different reasons) image: the killer holding a rubber baby and threatening to drop it from the hospital roof, while Lambert (who needs glasses to see anything in real life) manages to catch it mid-air.

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