âThe Unholyâ Review: âThereâs Something About Maryâ
Miraculous acts or evil deeds? This tame, trite horror movie has a familiar answer.
Cricket Brown in âThe Unholy.âCredit.Dana Starbard/Screen Gems
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Satan is at it again in âThe Unholy,â the first feature from Evan Spiliotopoulos and what feels like the millionth recurrence of a plot that turns an innocent young woman into the plaything of a soul-sucking demon.
After a brief spasm of 1845 witchery, the movie jumps to present-day New England where the roguish reporter Gerry Fenn (who better than Jeffrey Dean Morgan?) is sniffing out supernatural mischief. Once famous and now disgraced for fabricating stories, Fenn enjoys the odd tipple: It helps alleviate the professional embarrassment of covering livestock mutilations. But when he encounters Alice (Cricket Brown) â a he