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.

Even a cast as good as this can't overcome a screenplay that is basically just spare parts from every other religious horror film ever made. You've seen pretty much everything in The Unholy before, and most of the time in better films.

Despite these shortcomings, The Unholy is reasonably entertaining, even though it never feels surprising or frightening.

Jeffery Dean Morgan gives it the good old college try but this movie drags his career down a notch or two.

Uneven and unexciting but watchable religious horror pic.