UNHOLY
© Anchor Bay
Mania Grade: B
Maniac Grade: D-
Rated: Unrated
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Nicholas Brendon
Writer: Sam Freeman
Director: Daryl Goldberg
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Original Year of Release: 2007
Extras: Audio Commenary with Writer and Director, Trailers
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Maniac Grade: D-
Rated: Unrated
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Nicholas Brendon
Writer: Sam Freeman
Director: Daryl Goldberg
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Original Year of Release: 2007
Extras: Audio Commenary with Writer and Director, Trailers
Buy it now!
UNHOLY
By: Tim JansonDate: Thursday, September 27, 2007
Unholy is not an easy movie to classify…part horror, part sci-fi, part psychological thriller, it isn’t great in any one area but it is an interesting ‘small’ movie. I use the word small because the two stars, Barbeau and Brendon, ad onscreen throughout almost the entire film. This isn’t a scary movie, per se, but it is creepy. It’s one of those films that makes you wonder just what the heck is going on throughout most of the movie but a twist at the end brings everything home.
Barbeau is Martha who returns home with flowers for her teenage daughter, Hope. But Hope has locked herself in the outdoor storm cellar with a gun to her head, babbling incoherently about some experiment…just before she pulls the trigger. Brendon plays older brother Lucas in a role not unlike ‘Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He’s slightly timid and tries to make up for it with humor. Martha wants to know why her daughter would take her own life and what this experiment is that she referred to before she took her own life. They find a hidden room in the basement with a painting of a crazed looking man wearing Nazi symbols. Martha falls asleep several times only to find herself in this room, strapped into a chair, and listening to an old record phonograph playing some crazed, cult-like chanting.
