The Unholy (1988)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Camilo Vila

Writers:

Philip Yordan (writer) and
Fernando Fonseca (writer)

Release Date:

30 March 1989 (West Germany)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Seduction. Submission. Murder. Tonight . . . evil goes over the edge.

Plot:

A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Demon | Devil | Religion | Occult

Cast

Ruben Rabasa	...	Father Dennis
Nicole Fortier	...	Demon
Peter Frechette	...	Claude
Phil Becker	...	Doctor
Ned Beatty	...	Lt. Stern
Susan Bearden	...	Hotel manager
Xavier Barquet	...	Bell Boy
Lari White	...	Housekeeper
Jeff D'Onofrio	...	Paramedic
Ben Cross	...	Father Michael
Hal Holbrook	...	Archbishop Mosely
Trevor Howard	...	Father Silva
Martha Hester	...	Young nun
John Boyland	...	Dr. Valerio
Claudia Robinson	...	Teresa

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Norway:18 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Limelite Studios, Miami, Florida, USA

Company:

Vestron Pictures

Trivia:

Special Effects man Bob Keen had to go back and shoot more scenes after initial test screenings of the film found it too light.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: The Unholy" (2001)

Not Bad But Could Have Been Better

Here is a movie I used to like a lot when I was a kid back in the later part of the eighties. I finally just found a copy of this film (unfortuanitly on VHS) and figured I would give it a try. This is a decent film with a solid cast. The story is this, basically there is a creature called the Unholy and it is going around and slaughtering priests. Ben Cross plays one of these priests and is thrown out of a skyscraper like 7 stories up. He miraculously survives without even a mark on his body so the Archbishop believes him to be the chosen one to do battle with the Unholy. The main problems with this movie is that it moves way to slow and the dialog is not very good. There is a decent bit of gore in the film but its only at the beginning and at the end of the movie. So for the most part you have to struggle with good actors working with a terrible script. The special effects also could have been better but are not horrible like most people make them out to be. At the end they should have used stop motion animation to be more effective. But all together this is not a horrible movie it just could have been put together much better. 7 stars