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| Review: The Unholy Movie 2021 |
Review: The Unholy Movie 2021. After helping write scripts and stories for blockbuster movies such as The Huntsman: Winter's War (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, 2016), Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon, 2017), and Charlie's Angels (Elizabeth Banks, 2019), screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos made his directorial debut with the horror movie The Unholy.
Review: The Unholy Movie 2021 and Synopsis
The storyline itself begins when a deaf-mute teenage girl named Alice (Cricket Brown) suddenly gains the ability to hear and speak after receiving a "visit" from Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Of course, the incident immediately shocked the world and made the church where she was cared for by Pastor Hagan (William Sadler) considered a holy place.
The miracle that Alice experienced even attracted the attention of a former journalist named Gerry Fenn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who was usually skeptical of religious teachings to cover it.
Alice even soon developed a good relationship with Gerry Fenn and used him as a means to spread the "message" that Mary, the mother of Jesus had conveyed to her.
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| Review: The Unholy Movie 2021 |
However, after a number of oddities occurred, Gerry Fenn began to feel that there was something wrong with Alice's "teachings" of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Plot and movie review
Adapted by Spiliotopoulos from the novel entitled Shrine by James Herbert, The Unholy is able to present a number of interesting horror stories with religious themes.
Indeed, in his directorial debut, Spiliotopoulos does not present a truly new or special horror story. Even so, it's hard to argue that Spiliotopoulos has a pretty reliable ability to build and package his horror storytelling system.
Horror connoisseurs are certainly no stranger to the mystery that Spiliotopoulos is trying to explain through The Unholy – especially thanks to the opening scene of the movie which seems to open a fairly wide story layer which is actually quite crucial to build the mystery of the movies story.
Spiliotopoulos' work in executing the atmosphere as well as the audio and visual appearance of this movie makes the storytelling journey of The Unholy far from boring.
This is what makes the final half of The Unholy story quite disappointing. After going through a fairly well-organized storytelling, Spiliotopoulos failed to find a more effective narrative idea to conclude his movie.
The execution of the third half of The Unholy story seems so rushed in solving the various mysteries and conflicts that have been built.
A number of characters also fail to be given a straightforward story digging. Characters like Bishop Gayles (Cary Elwes), Monsignor Delgarde (Diogo Morgado), and Natalie Gates (Katie Aselton) are almost used as mere conflict devices without a very strong story function.
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As a result, not only did the movies storytelling quality deteriorate, The Unholy also lost all its ability to leave a deeper impression. Quite disappointing, especially since this movie received solid acting support from the cast.
Closing
Although it appears bland in describing and developing a number of characters, the appearance of this acting department filler is quite successful in bringing the characters present in The Unholy storyline to life.
This is his first large-scale appearance, Brown is able to steal the attention through his ability to make Alice's character as a fragile and scary female character.
Brown even managed to give an appearance that is quite parallel to the prime performance given by Morgan, Sadler, or Elwes who clearly have experience and acting skills that are much more senior than him.
Overall, The Unholy ends up as a dish that is still worth enjoying but fails to take advantage of its various potentials to become a better horror dish.
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