Product Description

Awaking suddenly from a lurid, suspicious dream, the steadfast Father Drake immediately realizes the mission he's been assigned. Pretty, innocent Mary Jane Crowley has been kidnapped by cops, no less, or at least some questionable characters who look like cops. Her fate is in the hands of Father Drake, who makes a call to Our Lady of the Righteous Fist, a battleconvent, enlisting the aid of the elite combat nun Sister Jordan Merrick. With the help of the high-tech, crucifix-shaped Vat-Sat (Vatican satellite), the pair infiltrate the hideout the evil-doers and stumble into a trap. Those cops aren't cops, and stranger yet, to everyone's surprise, Mary Jane isn't who she seems either. In fact, she's Necrotia, Queen of Hades! The biggest surprise, though, is that Necrotia has ventured to our dimension to seek out the only person who can help her with a conspiracy in Hell that could spell doom for all and that person is none other than Father Drake! The mystery is only beginning to unfold!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #186119 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-01-01
• Formats: NTSC, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 400
• Running time: 87 minutes

Review
Melantha Blackthorne A.K.A Countess Bathoria, is the ultimate DIY horror geek. Her fearless offensive, brazenly violent and widely entertaining first feature SINNERS AND SAINTS proves you can kick a lot of ass on a shoestring budget.

Despite having little money to work with, ultra-low-budget filmmakers enjoy a liberty their more heavily financed counterparts can only dream about. It's not simply the privilege of B-movie directors to reveal glimpses of worlds too twisted for mainstream sensibilities, it's their absolute duty. Unfortunately though, if the majority of films that get submitted to Rue Morgue's Indie Terror Fest are anything to go by, very few directors are living up to the responsibility of delivering the appropriate levels of depravity. A most welcome exception, however, is the debut feature from Melantha Blackthorne of Robomonkey Productions.

Appropriately titled SINNERS AND SAINTS, the film features a clairvoyant, demon-slaying priest who teams up with a scantily-clad nun to bring justice to Hades. With wall-to-wall topless nuns, samurai sword fighting and kung fu priests, the movie is a full-on, genre-bending, bone-crunching assault on the bastions of good taste that gleefully revels in its unrestrained debauchery. --Rue Morgue Magazine - Stuart Andrews

Review
Father Carmichael Drake (Jason Cavalier, who wrote, produced, edited, filmed, and choreographed this puppy) is a priest with an axe to grind against the forces of evil. But not just any priest, mind you. Father Drake is an ass-kicking priest of action. None of that peace and love crapola they try to feed you on Sunday, no sir; this is a priest of kung-fu, gun-fu, and good-fu, taking the fight to evil on their terms, and beating the unholy tar out of them. Assisted by the combat nuns of Our Lady of the Righteous Fist Battleconvent, especially Sister Jordan Merrick (Liz Faure, who should've also gotten topless in The Night They Returned ), Father Carmichael seeks to stop the disappearance of girls from the local Catholic school and finally find out the meaning of his strange dreams about a beautiful/monstrous woman.

How does Father Drake play into the war raging in hell? Why are virgin girls being sacrificed? Who is that hot-ass blonde? Where did Father Drake get that awesome leather priest outfit and bitching car? Why does this movie, made for spare change, have better acting, writing, kung-fu, special effects, and cooler outfits than The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions put together?

This film melds the blackest of black comedy, social commentary, kung-fu, horror, burlesque, and science fiction in a way that should be impossible to do with this degree of ease. This film is less a roller coaster than a rocket stuck up your ____ and aimed straight at a brick wall. There is literally something for everyone, and nothing for the squeamish, overly religious, or people without a sense of humor.

Not that the film is anti-religion, or even heretical. After all, they left out the obvious pedophile priest jokes that I would have stuck in (in favor of corrupt, perverted demons and a cockney demon milkman). It just takes a different slant on religious matters than most, while providing a pretty disgusting (and funny, and horrifying) look at what hell just might be, while providing an explanation of the demons, their presence on Earth, and just who Larry (Michael Brunet) is. However, I doubt the real Devil is anywhere near as hot as the disputed leader of Hell in this flick, Necrotia (Melantha Blackthorne, who also wrote, directed, produced, edited, filmed, and looked incredibly hot in this puppy).

This movie is about as close to flawless as a first time movie can ever get. While there is a little too much exposition towards the end, and while they do leave the door wide open for the sequel, I don't care! This is a movie whose sequel I want... no, I have to see! Necrotia's got me by the balls, gang. I'm helpless, and I really can't wait to see how this kung-fu odyssey plays out.

Queen Necrotia's made a believer out of me. Run, don't walk, and get this movie (I wasn't going to say anything, but you COULD use the exercise). I guarantee you every single one of you will love it instantly. --Living Corpse - Ron Hogan

Review
An incredibly twisted, dark, and often humorous ____ the establishment style film about a God Squad priest and nun team, who are summoned to Hades by the mega-hot Necrotia; to do her bidding and squelch an evil coup of hellish proportions. Political incorrectness is the special of the day as we get wicked jabs at organized religion, politics, and law enforcement.

Roller coaster ride doesn't even begin to describe the goings on in Sinners and Saints, I mean; you ll find yourself enjoying a well choreographed action sequence wrought with an ass kicking priest, a topless nun, gore, cool computer effects, and some tongue-in-cheek humor. Not long after, while you are still reeling from the incredibly cool fight scene, you'll be disgusted and disturbed by cyber-erotic, cannibal hellions dealing out torturous sex and pain, followed by a totally bizarre return to the womb scene.

So many times, it is painfully evident when an indie movie is a first attempt, not so in the case of Sinners and Saints. Granted, it is by no means perfect, the story left me confused a few times, but I do think that was the intent. Melantha Blackthorne told me herself that certain aspects of the story would be explained further in a sequel (sneaky sneaky). Some actors were slightly tedious to watch (none of the main characters), But nonetheless, given the ample amounts of action, gore, camp, and nudity, I was very entertained.

Sinners and Saints also features a killer soundtrack of the Scandinavian-esqe black/death metal variety, and let me tell you, it really accentuates the story and the action scenes to hear some blazing, dark metal in the background.

A very solid and noteworthy entry into independent horror filmmaking; especially considering the budget and the fact that Cavalier and Blackthorne did the editing, most of the computer effects themselves, as well as the filming (when Cavalier was onscreen, Blackthorne was filming, and vice versa).

Cavalier and Blackthorne s Robomonkey Productions is definitely going to be high on the ones to watch list as both are obviously fans of the macabre, with interesting story ideas, and incredibly twisted senses of humor. --Horrorwatch