This is the tale of a young man with the telepathic ability to kill people he hates. He also appears to have incestuous feelings towards his mother.
Now ordinarily I enjoy an introspective type film like this where the main character is somewhat deranged. Sebastian (the young man) reminds me a little of the guy from Joe D'Amato's magnum opus (only good film) Beyond the Darkness. He even looks a little like him. But the trouble is the film is a slow burn, you get the feeling something is very wrong with Sebastian. Like I said he seems to have abnormal feelings towards his mother but that situation never comes to anything. I'm not saying I wanted the two of them to jump into bed together, but there needed to be some kind of climactic resolution to that and ultimately It seems to come to nothing at all.
Instead he kind of has a relationship with his late brother's girlfriend, a lovely but hopelessly naive woman. She lives with a much older woman which is a strange choice for a roommate or friend. Her friend is a sort of medium and she immediately realizes that Sebastian is trouble. What ends up happening with her? Unless I missed it nothing.
It seems Sebastian ends up killing the naive woman (Angie) but before this happens we're treated to a very boring flashback of a different family which seems to feature a murderous young man who in some way is responsible for Sebastian's murderous psychic abilities. In the end it seems Sebastian has died but what the hell he died of is super unclear.
This is very different from the director's better known and more enjoyable Vampyres. Whereas Vampyres had no plot to speak of and was not interesting at all it was still more fun than Stigma. I think Larraz has some skill. He is very good at atmosphere. Stigma is a very atmospheric film. I think it could have been a much better film if the writing had been a bit better and events in the film were a little less vague. Mind you it seemed like some footage is missing in spots, at least in the version one can see on Tubi.
Lastly who can see Stigma without saying for heaven's sake Mr Larraz, it's stigmata not stigma. A stigma is when people shame you for something. The thing you're referring to, where people bleed for mystical reasons, is stigmata. Mind you possibly someone other than Larraz is to blame for the malapropism. After all it appears to be a Spanish film so maybe the people who handled the English dubbing screwed up.
One more thing: The first girl, Martha I think her name was, is a great beauty. I was sorry she met an early demise and was not in the film more.
Now ordinarily I enjoy an introspective type film like this where the main character is somewhat deranged. Sebastian (the young man) reminds me a little of the guy from Joe D'Amato's magnum opus (only good film) Beyond the Darkness. He even looks a little like him. But the trouble is the film is a slow burn, you get the feeling something is very wrong with Sebastian. Like I said he seems to have abnormal feelings towards his mother but that situation never comes to anything. I'm not saying I wanted the two of them to jump into bed together, but there needed to be some kind of climactic resolution to that and ultimately It seems to come to nothing at all.
Instead he kind of has a relationship with his late brother's girlfriend, a lovely but hopelessly naive woman. She lives with a much older woman which is a strange choice for a roommate or friend. Her friend is a sort of medium and she immediately realizes that Sebastian is trouble. What ends up happening with her? Unless I missed it nothing.
It seems Sebastian ends up killing the naive woman (Angie) but before this happens we're treated to a very boring flashback of a different family which seems to feature a murderous young man who in some way is responsible for Sebastian's murderous psychic abilities. In the end it seems Sebastian has died but what the hell he died of is super unclear.
This is very different from the director's better known and more enjoyable Vampyres. Whereas Vampyres had no plot to speak of and was not interesting at all it was still more fun than Stigma. I think Larraz has some skill. He is very good at atmosphere. Stigma is a very atmospheric film. I think it could have been a much better film if the writing had been a bit better and events in the film were a little less vague. Mind you it seemed like some footage is missing in spots, at least in the version one can see on Tubi.
Lastly who can see Stigma without saying for heaven's sake Mr Larraz, it's stigmata not stigma. A stigma is when people shame you for something. The thing you're referring to, where people bleed for mystical reasons, is stigmata. Mind you possibly someone other than Larraz is to blame for the malapropism. After all it appears to be a Spanish film so maybe the people who handled the English dubbing screwed up.
One more thing: The first girl, Martha I think her name was, is a great beauty. I was sorry she met an early demise and was not in the film more.