The Unholy

It's a credit to Brown, Morgan, and Sadler that the story works at all. These actors maintain the illusion that The Unholy is a competent horror movie for far longer than it deserves.

It's not all bad, but it's not much good.

Coming out on the high heels of Lil Nas X's controversial "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," this devil's tale feels laughably tame.

The Unholy is not designed to be deep, but since glimmers of depth are present, the lack of follow-up makes this a disappointing watch.

The Unholy has the stately aura (and endless speechifying) of a sermon, but it's really a creaky nothing of a B-movie, like a chintzy Halloween exhibit set up inside an old church.

Has an intriguing premise but cuts too many corners in its catechism.

Could of been worse 
Could of been better 
It’s harmless with little to no scares but at least enough intrigue to finish the film out. Quite good cinematography though & an interesting demon design that I wish wasn’t so CGI at times

The Unholy’s story is nothing we haven’t seen before, but Jeffrey Dean Morgan makes for a compelling lead, and there are still more than enough scares here to satisfy horror hounds.



Small treats aside, “The Unholy” ends up being a pretty vanilla horror movie. It starts with promise but hits too many familiar beats and can’t fully stick its landing.

"The Unholy" is better viewed as a fun scare machine than a piece of commentary about the nature of faith and belief. It works best when it puts those themes aside and throws as much religious-tinged horror at the audience as it can.