The Unholy

THE GIST: A discredited journalists stumbles upon a girl to whom, supposedly, the Virgin Mary speaks. She starts performing miracles, and hordes of believers flock to the town. Could this be his ticket to redemption?

The Unholy is a boilerplate horror movie that explores the power of faith and religion on people, specifically when it's unclear whether God or Satan are really at work.

The first half isn't terrible, but then things start unspooling too quickly to sustain a minimum of believability.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan works pretty hard to sell the weak script and Cricket Brown is quite good at playing the girl with the visions.

THE BOTTOM LINE: I've seen worse horror movies, but I've seen better as well. It's not a bad story, but it shows weaknesses that drag it down.

Grade: 5