Fenn takes her to the hospital and meets the local doctor, Natalie ( Katie Aselton). The girl kneels before the creepy-looking tree and talks to it before fainting. Then, he follows the girl through the woods and into the field. Fenn runs his car off the road and into a tree. That night, as Fenn’s driving down a dark, wooded road, a girl in white suddenly appears in his way. Of course, what Fenn doesn’t realize is that he just released the ashes of the tortured woman and broke the binding spell. Realizing that this could turn the cattle-mutilation-that-wasn’t into an actual thing, Fenn decides to stomp on the doll’s ceramic head and break it, showing us the kind of unscrupulous behavior that undoubtedly got him into trouble before. The farmer tells him it’s probably what’s known as a “kern baby,” a traditional totem that farmers used to bring good luck.īut since this doll’s been bound by a chain, the farmer says he’s not sure what it was used for. He sees something inside the base of the tree and takes it out – the same doll we saw earlier. A whispery voice calls his attention to a creepy-looking dead tree in the middle of the field. Then the local priest, Father Hagan ( William Sadler), comes out to tell the farmer for the umpteenth time to get his cows off the church’s property.įenn’s about ready to pack it up and go home when hears something. When he gets there, Fenn finds that it’s nothing more than some kid playing a joke by painting a Metallica “M” on a cow’s butt. A farmer in Banfield has reported cattle mutilation and the site owner wants Gerry to check it out. A disgraced, out-of-work journalist named Gerry Fenn ( Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan) begrudgingly takes an pathetically low-paying assignment from a website that reports on weird phenomena in and around Boston. We see one of the executioners performing a spell, binding the woman’s spirit to a doll before she’s hung and set on fire.Ĭut to the present day. We see through a woman’s eyes as she’s tortured and put to death – we assume for witchcraft. So, the story begins with a prologue set in 1845 in Banfield, Massachusetts. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Katie Aselton in The Unholy That and the fact that it’s produced by Sam Raimi. So that’s what intrigued me when I saw the trailer for The Unholy. But as much as Mary has been included in movies about Jesus’ life or the apparitions at Lourdes and Fatima, very few have focused specifically on her. In Catholicism, Mary is a major force, the “Queen of Heaven,” who has supposedly appeared to the faithful and pure of heart while performing miracles.Įven today, the towns of Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal, where Mary has supposedly appeared, continue to draw thousands of people every year, and miracles continue to be attributed to her. But within this well-tread territory is one aspect that hasn’t been explored much at all: Mary, the mother of Jesus.ĭepending on which variation of Christianity you’re talking about, Mary is anywhere from a mere historical figure to outright worshipped. Clearly, the same can be said for a lot of folks, given the popularity of religious horror. Decades after letting my membership in that particular club lapse, the mythology of Catholicism, those grand ideas one learns about in Catechism class and the amazing stories in the Bible continue to fascinate me. You’ve been warned.Īs a horror super-fan, I will totally admit that I’m especially drawn to religious horror stories. As with all review-caps, MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD for The Unholy.
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