Resurrection (1999 film)

Resurrection
Original film poster
Directed by	Russell Mulcahy
Produced by	Howard Baldwin Karen Elise Baldwin Jack Gilardi Jr. Christopher Lambert Nile Niami
Written by	Brad Mirman (story and screenplay) Christopher Lambert (story)
Starring	Christopher Lambert Leland Orser Robert Joy
Music by	Jim McGrath
Cinematography	Jonathan Freeman Brett Reynolds
Edited by	Gordon McClellan
Production company	Baldwin/Cohen Productions Interlight Resurrection Productions Inc.
Distributed by	Columbia TriStar Home Video
Release date	1999
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States Canada
Language	English

Resurrection is a 1999 American-Canadian horror thriller film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Christopher Lambert, Leland Orser and Robert Joy. David Cronenberg appears in a cameo as a priest. Lambert co-wrote the story for the film with Brad Mirman, who also wrote the screenplay.

The film was theatrically released in most of Europe, Asia and Australia, but went straight to DVD in the US. It was also occasionally aired/streamed on television.

Detective John Prudhomme, a Cajun transferred to Chicago, is assigned to investigate the savage murder of a man who has bled to death from a severed arm. A message, "He Is Coming", written in blood on the victim's window, is a dark, foreboding clue. After two more victims with missing body parts are discovered, Prudhomme realises he is on the trail of a serial killer who is using the missing body parts to reconstruct "the body of christ" in time for Easter.

Some of the film was shot in Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana, but most of it was filmed in Toronto, Canada.

According to director Russell Mulcahy's DVD commentary Resurrection was originally rated NC-17, which is why several scenes of violence and gore, like the leg cutting scene, were excised to achieve an R rating. The "Uncut version" of the film was never released and is presumed lost to this day.

Resurrection was released in the fall of 1999 on cable television in the United States. In other countries such as France, Spain and Switzerland, it was shown in theatres. In France it was a modest success, with nearly 400,000 film admissions. The film was quite popular in Spain, with 1,198,684 admissions.