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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2021

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

| Apr 6, 2021

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.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 5, 2021

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2021

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.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 2, 2021

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

| Apr 1, 2021

The latest entry in religious horror commits the cardinal sin of inducing boredom by way of tired tropes and cheap jump scares.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2021

Spiliotopoulos never matches the film's grounded themes with the eerie tone needed to convey old-world superstitions and church rituals for psychological gashes... "The Unholy" is a few Hail Marys short of a winning formula.

| Apr 1, 2021

The script's many many shortcomings would perhaps be easier to forgive if the visuals were a little less shoddy, something that stings even more when one glances to the credits and sees producer Sam Raimi's name.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2021

Playing the evil entity with convulsive movements and a killer manicure, the contortionist Marina Mazepa turns in the movie's most entertaining performance. That's if you don't count Morgan looking genuinely baffled as to what he's doing here at all.

| Apr 1, 2021

Adapting James Herbert's 1983 novel Shrine, filmmaker Evan Spiliotopoulos turns a potentially compelling examination of faith and mass hysteria into a by-the-numbers jump-scare effort.

| Apr 1, 2021

After an intriguing setup that takes its time building atmosphere and characters, declining to rush the first death, the film becomes progressively more overwrought and hokey.

| Apr 1, 2021

"The Unholy" has a religious plot that actually works for it.

| Apr 1, 2021