He’s the surrogate for the audience, he’s the man who is supposed to uncover little bits about the happenings and goings-on. Always ready to give a solid performance, you can feel Morgan working to give his thin character some range. Jeffrey Dean Morgan shows up for work as Gerry. Only the problem is there’s no mystery and the film gives up any pretense of trying to create something new very quickly. It didn't have to be amazing, just try to be something a little different. In the wake of so many Conjuring sequels, spinoffs, and imitators I was ready for a spiritual horror film that takes its time and tries to weave something of a mystery. Sadly, that’s where we find Evan Spiliotopoulos’s foray into spiritual horror with The Unholy. I don’t enjoy boring or uninspired horror movies that have nowhere to go.
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Hell, I love a bad horror movie too when it’s entertaining. Determined to uncover the hoax, Gerry discovers that forces far more malevolent are at work. The kicker - apparently it was the doing of the Virgin Mary. In a small town, a deaf and speechless young girl (Cricket Brown) suddenly can hear, speak, and miraculously heal the sick. While trailing another story, he stumbles upon something that gets his old reporter’s blood pumping.
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Despite its shortcomings, this is still a spooky piece of supernatural horror that is more thoughtful about its religious imagery than many similar films.Gerry Fenn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is a cynical investigative journalist whose professional integrity has long ago slipped to the sidelines. The filmmakers intend the bishop as a secondary villain but this isn’t done very well.īottom Line: The Unholy is an acceptable film but it’s frustrating because it had the potential to be great. The supporting cast includes Cary Elwes as a bishop Elwes’ accent is all over the place, at times sounding Bostonian and at other times sounding Irish. It’s easy to imagine a much better version of The Unholy that allows the horror to creep in more gradually. It cheapens the film and reveals too much too soon. The filmmakers don’t trust the material or the audience and insert jump scares spiked with audio stingers and digital visual effects. What Doesn’t: The Unholy follows some of the obnoxious trends in recent supernatural horror pictures. It’s an effective metaphor of the way truth has a cost. People have had their aliments cured but if the demonic truth is exposed and the miracle is rejected, the cures will be nullified.
Beyond the comfort of faith, the story also puts more concrete matters at stake. The way the film dramatizes faith and belief is quite smart. Virtually everyone in The Unholy wants to believe that they are witnessing an act of God and that willingness to believe enables something evil. But what is especially interesting about The Unholy is the question implicit in its premise: how would a believer identify a miracle as the work of good rather than evil forces? That conceit plays out intelligently throughout the film.
The film has several impressive images and sequences, especially the opening (which homages Mario Bava’s Black Sunday) and the fiery conclusion. What Works: The Unholy is generally well crafted. Premise: A disgraced journalist (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) stumbles upon an apparent miracle as a mute teenage girl (Cricket Brown) gains the ability to speak and communicates messages allegedly from the Virgin Mary.
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