The Unholy (2021)
Storyline
Alice, a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.
Directors
Cast
Cary Elwes, Katie Aselton, William Sadler, Michael Strauss, Bates Wilder, Christine Adams, Bill Thorpe, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kevin Fennessy, Mike Wendt, Danny Corbo, Diogo Morgado, Charlie Thurston, Ian Dylan Hunt, Dustin Tucker, Adrian M. Mompoint, Cassidy Neal, Kevin Daigneault, Rob Lévesque, J.J. Wright, Jeff Bouffard, Tim Estiloz, Celeste Olivia, Cricket Brown, Marina Mazepa, Gisela Chipe, Mere Davis, Kiara Pichardo, Janelle Feigley, Amber Sage, Andrea Athanassiou, Hannah Jane Doyon, Stephen O'Neil Martin, Nate Luis Silva, Jonathan Neves, Madison LaPlante
Trailer
Reviews
70
The Unholy is a good tight scary commercial theological horror film. Its spooks and demons unfurl within a pop version of Christianity, which makes it sound no more exotic than last week’s “Exorcist” knockoff or last year’s helping of the “Conjuring” franchise. But The Unholy has a religious plot that actually works for it.
50
The effects are top notch and there are some chills in it. It’s just that the picture loses itself and any momentum it has in “explaining” these wonders and healings as the work of a Mary who isn’t the “Virgin Mary” all involved assume it is.
50
IGN
There are moments in The Unholy that strive for shocking, even sacrilegious. But Spiliotopoulos lacks either the imagination or the guts to create something truly soul-rattling.
50
After an intriguing setup that takes its time building atmosphere and characters, declining to rush the first death, the film becomes progressively more overwrought and hokey. It also loads up on derivative tropes that worked better everywhere from Ringu through The Conjuring Universe.
45
Whenever The Unholy wants to scare you, it simply enters internet screamer territory, complete with ghoul faces rushing directly into the camera as loud noises boom from somewhere. Outside of these admittedly startling moments, The Unholy unfolds sedately, and sometimes incoherently.
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