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Watch the unholy 20211/7/2024 But he hangs around long enough to see Alice, standing in front of a spindly dead tree, go into a beatific trance-out. Fenn has come to Banfield to cover a bogus sensational story about the mutilation of cows. The central character, apart from Alice, is a defrocked journalist-turned-tabloid reporter named Gerry Fenn, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan with a sleazy middle-aged panache that makes him a winningly jaded stand-in for all of us skeptics in the audience. Good and evil face off in every horror movie, but this one is truly a holy war. We know that the movie can’t be all sweetness and light, but what matters is how solidly it believes in those things. “The Unholy” is adapted from a 1983 James Herbert novel, and as written and directed by Evan Spiliotopoulos it could almost be a faith-based horror film. Absorbing Mary’s spirit, Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can heal the sick, which attracts crowds of people to her rural town of Banfield, Mass. It stars an unheralded actress named Cricket Brown - mark my words, she’s going to go on to major things - who plays a deaf-mute young woman named Alice, who has visions of what she thinks is the Virgin Mary. But “The Unholy” has a religious plot that actually works for it. 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. “ The Unholy” is a good tight scary commercial theological horror film.
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