Special effects drive unholy terror. Running vaguely along the lines of the spate of exorcism films in the 1970s, this is a special effects-driven horror film about the discovery of a new Gospel in Jesus' own words. When the priest translating it in secret (since it 'could destroy the authority of the Church') dies, his rosary gets sent to Pittsburgh hairdresser Patricia Arquette who begins receiving invisible but bloody attacks that leave her with stigmata similar to Christ's wounds on the cross. Although Arquette responds well to her role's physical demands, she isn't the most sympathetic of actresses and a sturdier central pillar is provided by Gabriel Byrne as the scientist-priest sent to investigate the girl, while his boss Jonathan Pryce is afraid of what she might unleash. Never quite convincing, this is still absorbingly unholy fun while it lasts.