Stigmata

Name: Stigmata
Genre: Mystery, Horror
Released: September 10, 1999
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 28
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Patricia Arquette

1999

METASCORE

Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Mixed or average reviews based on 196 Ratings

See All

5.3

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

5.3	Your Score
5.3	User Score Mixed or average reviews based on 196 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

Stigmata

Now Playing: Stigmata

Movie Details & Credits

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: September 10, 1999 | R

Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Patricia Arquette

Summary: Frankie Paige (Arquette) is a hairdresser with a boyfriend. She may seem like a lot of other girls, but things happen to Frankie -- terrible things she can't understand or explain. And though she has tried everything to make them stop, they're just getting worse. (MGM)

Director: Rupert Wainwright

Genre(s): Mystery, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

TNT RoughCut Matt Kelsey

Ranks with the best of the bunch, given its spooky storyline that fuses religion with down-to-earth characters.

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Filled with short, rapid-fire takes, edited to a pulsating beat and punctuated with blasts of noise...the style suits the often violent material, as well as Arquette's remarkable physical performance. Read full review

Curtis Morgan

A garish clashing of sacred images and bloody semihorror, this is a movie that defines the category: interesting failure.

Rod Dreher

What a bloody disappointment Stigmata is! Read full review

Mary Elizabeth Williams

A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess. Read full review

Barbara Shulgasser

Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense. Read full review

Bob Graham

What is bloody and full of holes? Read full review

SEE ALL 31 REVIEWS

Write a Review

User Reviews

Uvula

Apr 11, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Patricia Arquette's character is named Frankie (short for Frances), similar to the name of the saint, Francis, whom we're told by Gabriel Byrne's character was the first to receive the stigmata.… Expand

1 of 31 users found this helpful130

Vanuatu

Apr 8, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The "Aramaic" Frankie writes on the wall is actually ancient Hebrew, because Rupert Wainwright thought looked more intriguing.… Expand

0 of 31 users found this helpful031

Pheromone

Apr 7, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Gospel of Thomas is a historical document that some believe to be the actual words of Jesus to his disciples; however, the real-life document was written in Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language based on the Greek alphabet, not Aramaic, as the movie states.… Expand

8 of 36 users found this helpful828

Catenary44

Jun 7, 2021

$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.$.
》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■》■

8 of 9 users found this helpful81

Diameter

Apr 27, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The movie revolves about two unrelated concepts between them but they two are related with Christianity, stigmas and apocryphal gospels. Stigmas are the different hurts (five in total) suffered by Jesus during The Passion after to be condemned to death: he was tortured with a whiplash in his back, lacerating it; he was forced to wore a crown of thorns in the head, making it bleed; his hands and feet (it counts as two) were crossed by long nails when he was crucified, and finally (six hours later) a soldier nailed his spear in Jesus' left side to verify that he was dead. As movie establishes, Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226 AD) was the first person in history documented to suffer stigmas, replicating in his body the same hurts suffered by Jesus, as well the rest of stigmatized in later centuries, not existing a case about a non-believer suffering stigmas. Apocryphal gospel refers any ancient parchment, papyrus and codex that it talks about Jesus and his followers (apostles) but that it's rejected by thr Vatican with independence of the antiquity and time when it was written (even if it was made when Jesus was alive) if the text questions, contradicts, denies or gives a different version of the official established by the Vatican after Council of Nicaea celebrated in 325 AD, where the 318 bishops reunited by Emperor Constantine the Great redacted Holy Bible as it has been known ahead.… Expand

19 of 20 users found this helpful191

Xenophobe114

Jun 24, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Frightening and Creepy

I just saw this movie and thought it was a well-done horror flick. It portrayed the powers of Satan in a realistic (not humorous light). Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne both did a fine job. It was pretty heavy on the gore but then again it had to be to get the point of the Stigmata across. I will say this, the director of the movie has a thing about dripping water and dripping blood. When you see the movie you will know what I mean. It's a good horror flick!… Expand

18 of 18 users found this helpful180

Nazgulero

Mar 23, 2011

I honestly do not see how anybody can enjoy this. The story is ok, it could be really good, if it weren't for the disgusting and nauseating cinematography. Freakish looking people, ADD/ADHD style editing, it looks like a LSD trip clip made for MTV. I always wonder what the life of directorsI honestly do not see how anybody can enjoy this. The story is ok, it could be really good, if it weren't for the disgusting and nauseating cinematography. Freakish looking people, ADD/ADHD style editing, it looks like a LSD trip clip made for MTV. I always wonder what the life of directors looks like who make these films. They cannot possibly be normal and functioning people. Otherwise they would not be able to come up with this superweird crap.… Expand

6 of 52 users found this helpful646

SEE ALL 14 REVIEWS