I rarely write reviews on IMDb but seeing this movie had so many 10 star reviews I had to give my opinion:
This film starts out with a story about how Michael A Calace ("writer, director, actor, inventor") was refused permission to shoot a movie in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Convinced he was the victim of some evil conspiracy, he starts to investigate the Archdiocese's website and finds examples of what he believes to be hidden pornographic and satanic messages in its artwork. As he continues his "investigation" he realizes this is a worldwide phenomenon and the viewer is treated to over two hours of examples. A few of these (including some renaissance artworks) may really have hidden messages in them, but most of them are just plain nonsense, about as credible as TBN's exposé of backwards messages in rock music. Calace even claims that a renaissance era painting depicts Vladimir Putin and his wife and that this proves the painter had some evil, supernatural guidance. After all of this nonsense, he calls these alleged messages with "rape of the soul" and compares them to actual rape, which is a slap in the face of actual rape victims.
"Rape of the Soul" offers some insight into the deluded religious mind of its director, and a few laughs, but nothing else, and is certainly not worth spending 140 minutes of your life on, let alone money to pay for it. I'm seriously wondering if this movie may be a hoax, a mockumentary parody of religious scare films.
This film starts out with a story about how Michael A Calace ("writer, director, actor, inventor") was refused permission to shoot a movie in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Convinced he was the victim of some evil conspiracy, he starts to investigate the Archdiocese's website and finds examples of what he believes to be hidden pornographic and satanic messages in its artwork. As he continues his "investigation" he realizes this is a worldwide phenomenon and the viewer is treated to over two hours of examples. A few of these (including some renaissance artworks) may really have hidden messages in them, but most of them are just plain nonsense, about as credible as TBN's exposé of backwards messages in rock music. Calace even claims that a renaissance era painting depicts Vladimir Putin and his wife and that this proves the painter had some evil, supernatural guidance. After all of this nonsense, he calls these alleged messages with "rape of the soul" and compares them to actual rape, which is a slap in the face of actual rape victims.
"Rape of the Soul" offers some insight into the deluded religious mind of its director, and a few laughs, but nothing else, and is certainly not worth spending 140 minutes of your life on, let alone money to pay for it. I'm seriously wondering if this movie may be a hoax, a mockumentary parody of religious scare films.