Mediatrix
~~Warning Spoilers Ahead~~
It opens with "This is all true".
Granted opening up with a Wyatt {{ Matt Ukena}} and Mary Ann {{Paula Duerksen}} having sex while the there is suppose to be a seance down. Mary Ann and her mother {{Heather Renken}} exchange words about her lifestyle. We get a little flash back on what happened to little Mary Ann which led her becoming a whore as an adult.
The filming is a cross between old 70's, 80's and some 90's. Mary Ann...does the whole helping of the lost soul, but steals her ID. 8-weeks later, she decides to fake a pregnancy and even extortion money from poor patsy Wyatt. You sort of feel sorry for him being duped into thinking he fathered a child.
Mary Ann tells her mother that she has been called by the spirits and leaves. She taunts a Hobo, but goes stays with Carrie {{Kaylee Williams}} and William Brackett {{Michael Katzenberger}}, where she deceives Carrie by cutting into her hands making her believe she has the Stigmata. Carrie calls Father Foster {{Tom Lodewyck}} and informs him about Mary.
Strange as it is that Brackett's don't mind Mary doing her drugs, till you find out that William is having sex with Mary Ann. It got a bit confusing that there was another house guest or was there?? Despite that they appear to be religious, the two ladies staying in the room are smoking, doing drugs and so forth.The Brackett get a couple of uncalled visitors while they are gone....where Stu {{Greg Johnson}} and Gabriel {{Joe Hollow}} come rummaging through the house. Stu looks like he can be easily swayed with his mental problems. Mary has them do a little deal for drugs or sex, which you can tell or assume that they went with deal number 2.
Mary starts to show her devious side when she gives William a heart attack by combining drugs. Gabriel and Stu show up. Carrie has basically lost her mind because she believes her husband was a nonbeliever and was struck down giving Mary Ann all legal duties to her home. Granted you still don't really understand about the other woman, who happens to be the Virgin Mary {{Shannon Lark}} is a delusion that Mary Ann sees. It got a bit confusing if she was an illusion or if she was sharing the room as a living being.
Mary has Stu have sex with Carrie and making her believe that it was the Angel Michael and she will be given birth to the new messiah. Father Foster is told that Carrie has been given the savior of the world since her husband has been in a coma state as a vegetable. Mary Ann has started to gather a following and made many people believe that she giving the world the divine word.Father Foster knows the truth and hires someone to help him to expose her. Granted Stu and Gabriel have become her devoted followers doing her every bidding. When it is time, they kill William just before they reveal to him that Mary Ann had planned for him to see all the her plans come to fruition. Father Foster and his reporter friend {{Andy Schatner}} show up and get caught. Granted the reporter gets killed off and Father Foster gets his face bashed by Mary Ann...and I am serious this is one sick bitch.
At the end, Gabriel hands her a little baby boy. Which makes me believe there is going to be a part 2.
~Production Notes~
Written Paula Duerksen and Cory J. Udler. Directed by Cory J. Udler. Mediatrix is the 3rd film by Shalenn Productions. Even though Mediatrix has been estimated at $150,000 it was actually shot around $6,000. The most expensive movie that Cory has yet filmed to date. ~Ask the Director~
Hellz Writer: You have mentioned that this was based on a true story. What inspired you to write about it??Cory: The inspiration came from and IDS2 shoot with Paula Duerksen, she played the hooker that Greg Johnson butchers in a bathroom. She's from Oklahoma, we have been friends for a while, and we wanted to get her into the movie. She was phenomenal. I wanted to take her on a cool tour of weird Wisconsin stuff, so I took her to Plainfield to see all the Ed Gein stuff, and then to the Mediatrix of Peace shrine in Necedah. On the way back we started to talk about how that story would make a great exploitation movie, and we put some of the pieces together and a year later we shot it.
Hellz Writer: What drives you to write/direct films that are considered "Controversy"?
Cory: I've always loved doing creative things. I've been in radio, done music, writing, television, pro wrestling. And ever since I was like 12 or 13 I've wanted to make a "weird" movie. So, when I went back to school in my late 20's, I discovered filming and editing and that was that. What really inspired me to make the kind of movies I make was a show called "The Incredibly Strange Film Show" hosted by Jonathan Ross. It was a cable show that featured Ted V Mikels, HG Lewis, John Waters, Ed Wood, etc. It was an hour long feature and I fell in complete love with it. To this day those are still my favorite filmmakers.Hellz Writer: What future works are in stored deep within??
Cory: Currently I am working on a short called "Ed Gein: DDS" starring Judith O'Dea from Night of the Living Dead. It's a short film that'll be part of a larger feature film called "Hole In The Wall" featuring work from Derrick Carey and Frank Anderson. Don't know when that'll be out, but probably year's end or early next year. And I am shooting IDS Rising, which is the Incest Death Squad prequel/sequel. Hoping to premiere that in October. I am also working with Ted V Mikels on our 3rd script together, this one, tentatively is called "Paranormal Extremes: text messages from the dead", and it's going to be wild. That's a dream come true, writing with Ted and calling Ted a friend. And my next film project won't be until next year, and I know exactly what it is, but I don't want to talk too much about it until I have a script!
~Final Thoughts~
I have seen Cory's films and I must say that they do get more twisted and bizarre by the moment, but at least the filmmaking has gotten better and better with each passing movie. It's a learn process, but this one surely bites the "What the fuck" bullet. I had to watch the damn thing 3-times to make sense of it. It gets into your head as if you are seeing the Virgin Mary as an actual being or as an illusion. I don't know but I think I am in need of some serious fucking therapy after this. There was minor flaws to it, but I think for the budget and so forth it is only understandable.
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~Ratings~
Each film is rated individually
~Hellz Writer~
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