Review – Unholy

Is there a word missing from the title? “Mess” or perhaps “Bore”? Film schools really need to start requiring scriptwriting classes that include some sort of training in character development. None of the characters in this production are even remotely sympathetic. Indeed, most of them (particularly Adrienne Barbeau in the lead role) come across as completely robotic, which of course negates any chance that the audience will care what happens to them. This approach makes the viewing experience a lot like watching someone play a video game full of long, dull passages where nothing happens. When the description promises Nazi occultism, mind control, invisibility and time travel, I expect less mumbled, meandering dialogue and more, well, anything more interesting than mumbled, meandering dialogue. The picture is also packed full of production errors. For example, the actors appear to spend days without changing their clothes. Indeed, only rarely do they even bother to remove their coats, even when they’re indoors. Just watching this made me cold, which was not a pleasant sensation on a chilly evening in mid-January. Wish I’d skipped it