Desecration

A wildly ambitious first feature whose lush visuals belie the fact that it was shot on 16mm for a mere $150,000. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Rullo (Danny Lopes) got off to a rough start in life. As a four-year-old he saw his abusive mother (Christie Sanford) die of an asthma attack, and has been raised by his distant father (Salvatore Paul Piro) and ailing Grandma Matilda (Irma St. Paule). Now a student at a forbidding Catholic school, Danny is accidentally responsible for the death of a nun (also Sanford): The radio controls on a model plane Danny is flying on the school grounds go dead, and the toy plunges to earth, fatally striking the victim on its way down. Not only ...