The Vatican Tapes score of 2.5 out of ten, saying "It exists without any real scares or chills, and only the smallest attempt to differentiate itself." The Vatican Tapes The Vatican Tapes is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Mark Neveldine from a screenplay written by Christopher Borrelli, which is in turn based on a story by Chris Morgan and Christopher Borrelli. The film stars Olivia Taylor Dudley, Kathleen Robertson, Michael Peña, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, and John Patrick Amedori, and was released on July 24, 2015, by Lionsgate. In the Vatican, Vicar Imani (Djimon Hounsou) shows Cardinal Bruun (Peter Andersson)
Prisoner in the Vatican entire city save for the Apostolic Palace; the inhabitants of the city then voted to join Italy. For the next 59 years, the popes refused to leave the Vatican in order to avoid any appearance of accepting the authority wielded by the Italian government over Rome as a whole. During this period, popes also refused to appear at Saint Peter's Square or at the balcony of the Vatican Basilica facing it, as the square in front of the basilica was occupied by Italian troops. During this period, popes granted the "Urbi et Orbi" blessings from a balcony facing a courtyard,