They are very believable as the adults who most care for Alice’s well-being and play wonderful contrasts to Elwes’ smarmy Bishop. Natalie Gates, a woman fiercely protective of Alice. They grant him exclusive access to Alice, and he plays well back and forth between the kind yet past-his-due disbeliever and shady storyteller looking to cash his way back into the business.īrown and Morgan are skillfully supported by Sadler and Katie Aselton (“ Black Rock”) who plays Dr. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is well-cast (arguably typecast) as the gruff and scruffy Gerry, a washed-up journalist who ruined his career by fabricating news stories for fame and recognition his skepticism plays at center stage when he deals with Diocese representatives Bishop Gyles (Cary Elwes, “ No Strings Attached”) and Monsignor Delgarde (Diogo Morgado, “The Killer”). Cricket Brown plays sweet devout Alice with wide-eyed wonder, and her charm shines through as the type of girl any community would immediately support as a young prophet. īased on James Herbert’s novel The Shrine, writer/director Evan Spiliotopoulos’s The Unholy is a tale about how a young girl’s religious faith is manipulated by an evil entity, and how the adults around her desperately yearn for something good in the world, oftentimes causing them to disregard signs of trouble. But Gerry, on the other hand, starts having visions himself - visions of a dark hooded figure with skeletal hands, and he begins to wonder if these miracles are a different type of fabricated story, one that will have dire consequences for the townspeople. As Alice continues to hear from Mary, her fame grows, and her miraculous gifts garner more and more attention to the small town. Within days, people gather around the church asking for Alice to heal their ailments, and the Boston Diocese sends representatives to investigate. She has seen a vision of a woman bathed in white light, and she tells them she has seen Mary. At mass the next day, Alice rises from her seat in the front of the church, and leaves the church with young girls trailing behind her she walks directly to the oak, and laying her hands on its trunk, speaks to the astonished crowd behind her. Bringing her to the nearby church, Gerry discovers she’s Alice (Cricket Brown, “Dukeland”), the orphaned niece of Father Hagan (William Sadler, “ Bill & Ted Face the Music”). Emerging from his car, Gerry follows the barefoot, white-nightgown clad girl back to the twisted oak where she drops to her knees and passes out.
He swerves to avoid hitting a girl standing in the middle of the road and crashes into a tree. Later that night, Gerry drives through the dark, winding roads on his way out of Banfield. Annoyed because his time was wasted and driven by the desire to get a story somehow, Gerry stomps on the doll and asks the farmer to pose next to it, fabricating a story about mutilated cows and a mysterious talisman found in a nearby tree. The doll is bound by chains and a small engraved plate that reads Februan impossible date. The two men wander over to a twisted oak tree in the field as Gerry’s attention is drawn to an object catching the sunlight he discovers a small doll in a hollow at the base of the tree. The stage is set for The Unholy.Īlmost two centuries later, Gerry Fenn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, “ Rampage”) buys coffee from a truck in the early morning before he gets a call to head out to small town Banfield, MA - “A little piece of God’s county.” A farmer relays a story about his cows being mysteriously mutilated, and is astonished when Gerry inquires about the farmer’s teenage son who, according to the benign spray-painted marking left on the cow, is probably a Metallica fan. The crowd does nothing to help the girl as she is burned alive.
The men surrounding the base of the tree light a fire, and a priest prays aloud, holding a doll in his hands. In 1845, a crowd gathers in a field as a young girl is hooded and hoisted into the air by a rope tied to an old oak tree.
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