Evan Spiliotopoulos's The Unholy is a middling demon possession flick that trades in the kind of iconoclasm that takes no prisoners -- much like the film's undead witchy woman causing trouble in the fictional town of Banfield, Massachusetts. A young woman, speechless from birth (Cricket Brown), wakes up from a vision talking up a storm, healing the lame and calling townsfolk to worship Mary. All of these events are witnessed by a disgraced, boozing tabloid writer (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) looking for a payday. He gets more than he bargained for.
The picture, Spiliotopoulos's directorial debut, delivers a couple of decent jolts but plays fast and loose with continuity and logic. Cary Elwes (Stranger Things, The Princess Bride) plays the shady Southie bishop of Boston (he should probably be an archbishop) and William Sadler plays the girl's uncle and pastor of the local church whose history includes the torture and burning of the previously mentioned witchy woman back in 1845.
Most of the movie is laughably bad at times and features an undercooked spirit demon that borrows from a half-dozen other undead movie projects and a moment of cringing figurative self-flagellation by the reporter that might send actual journalists running from the room in horror.
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