I don't usually like trashing on movies and I often go out of my way to try to find good things about every movie but this movie makes these difficult for me. I mean, I found most of its aspects bland, boring, and off-putting. There is nothing about the movie that distinguishes it in any way as it excels in being one huge cliché in a horror subgenre (possession) that is already rife with movies like it. In addition, the writing (particularly the dialogues) is sketchy and the plot is unbelievably predictable. Indeed, the plot is so predictable that - and trust me on this one - the simplest course that you think it will take after watching it for the first 20 minutes is exactly the course that it takes with no surprises or twists whatsoever.
Besides these, a notable and off-putting aspect of its clichés is its glorification of the "broken and immoral but forgivable and know-it-all white man". I for one am tired of seeing this stock character in Hollywood movies and I lament at the social gender and racial effects that its popularity in these movies have been having. Yet the "The Unholy" forwards one the most prototypical examples of this stock character in its protagonist. In addition, its representation of women is wanting and don't even get me started on its racial representation.
In all, for many reasons, both cinematic and social, avoid this movie at all costs. I'll give it a 3 for the effort that some of its performers (particularly Cricket Brown) put in but I otherwise would have given it a solid 1.
Besides these, a notable and off-putting aspect of its clichés is its glorification of the "broken and immoral but forgivable and know-it-all white man". I for one am tired of seeing this stock character in Hollywood movies and I lament at the social gender and racial effects that its popularity in these movies have been having. Yet the "The Unholy" forwards one the most prototypical examples of this stock character in its protagonist. In addition, its representation of women is wanting and don't even get me started on its racial representation.
In all, for many reasons, both cinematic and social, avoid this movie at all costs. I'll give it a 3 for the effort that some of its performers (particularly Cricket Brown) put in but I otherwise would have given it a solid 1.