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Out now on DVD is the bizarre 1995 rarity The Passion Of Darkly Noon (Lionsgate). Before he was George Of The Jungle, Brendan Fraser starred as a loony religious fanatic named Darkly Noon who's found in the middle of the road and nursed back to health by Callie (Ashley Judd). She lives deep in the forest with her mute boyfriend Clay (Viggo Mortensen), a coffin-building carpenter. Callie dresses in skimpy sundresses while Darkly masturbates, spying on her from his new home up in the barn. He fantasizes that his dead parents still talk to him, and he binds his body with barbed wire, paints himself red and, with a sword to "purify the forest," head towards the house. Weird circus folk and an elephant show up the next morning in this crackpot tale by the gifted Philip Ridley (The Reflecting Skin). 

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