Movie Review: The Unholy
Directed by: Evan Spiliotopoulos
Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: PG-13 (for violent content, terror and some strong language.)
This week’s review could have went two ways. We had The Unholy (Horror) and Voyagers (Sci-Fi.) Our co-reviewer, Abby, chose The Unholy. I was intrigued by this film. It’s no secret I LOVE horror movies, even if there are never any good ones out. The lead is also great. You’ll know Jeffrey Dean Morgan from The Walking Dead. A fun fact, he was also in a horror movie called The Possession in 2012. It was average. I think I own it. For the new release, I learned this was based on a book called Shrine written in 1983 by James Herbert. From the trailers we had watched the last few weeks, it looked like your typical possession film. This has been the first horror movie of the year, so the stakes were high.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Katie Aselton in The Unholy
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays a disgraced journalist who stumbles onto a wave of religious miracles obscuring a malevolent history in the latest from Sam Raimi s Ghost House Pictures.
Just in time for Easter,
The Unholy offers up satanic counter-programming to sate the appetites of the religious horror faithful. Almost a decade after getting drawn into a dybbuk haunting in
The Possession, Jeffrey Dean Morgan reteams with Sam Raimi s Ghost House Pictures, this time switching from Jewish folklore to Catholic demonology in a tale that tills the soil of Massachusetts for its history of charred witches. After an intriguing setup that takes its time building atmosphere and characters, declining to rush the first death, the film becomes progressively overwrought and hokey. It also loads up on derivative tropes that worked better everywhere from