Today I will recap a 2021 American supernatural horror film Named The Unholy.
A hearing-impaired girl is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly hear,
speak, and heal the sick. As people flock to witness her miracles,
terrifying events unfold. Are they the work of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister?
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The film opens in 1845 from the POV of a young woman. She is being hung from a tree and is having
a mask nailed to her face before the townspeople light her on fire and speak an incantation while
holding a doll to the woman’s face. Her charred corpse is left hanging from the tree hours later.
Now the movie comes to the present-day In the town of Boston, Massachusetts,
disgraced journalist Gerry Fenn gets a tip of something happening nearby. He asks for the
details and goes to investigate because a farmer thinks that his cow has been marked by Satanists,
but Gerry figures that it was just the man’s son painting the Metallica M.
Then Father Hagan comes there and asks the man to take the cow away from the church property.
Then when he starts leaving from there, he hears a whispering that beckons him to a nearby tree,
where he finds a burnt doll like the one seen in the last scene, with the date of February 31st,
1845 engraved on it. He then steps on the doll’s head and breaks it.
he then takes some pictures of that man with that doll and cow so that he can make a story.
On his way out of town that night, he drives out of town and swerves off the road when he sees a
young woman, Alice Pagett, in the middle of the road,
Due to which he loses control and his car comes to a halt after hitting a tree.
Then he sees her going inside the forest and starts following her.
She approaches the same tree that Gerry went to earlier and mutters something before passing out.
He then takes her to the home of Father Hagan, who is Alice’s uncle. He calls Dr. Natalie Gates,
and it is revealed that Alice is deaf-mute. While talking to Natalie outside,
Gerry says that he heard her talking, to which Natalie says that it is not possible
because she has congenital cholesteatoma, so she cannot speak since childhood.
Then she drops him at a hotel and leaves from there.
Gerry sticks around Banfield to potentially get a story for his employers with a religious
angle to it. He goes to church where Hagan preaches, and during the sermon,
Alice hears someone whispering her name, she then stands up and starts walking out.
Then we see that all the people start following her and she stops
near the tree where she sees a spirit. After standing there for a moment,
Alice speaks again, surprising everyone. She claims she is hearing the voice of Mary herself,
who is requesting through Alice that everyone return to the tree the next day.
Then Natalie runs some test runs on her, which confirms that she can now hear and speak
properly. On the other hand, Gerry reports to his former employer, Monica Slade,
and tells her that he has a story of a miracle that he has seen with his own eyes. She reminds
him that he was fired for faking a story, and she doesn’t want to hear what he has to say.
Now in the night when Gerry is sleeping, he has a dream in which a ghostly woman
rises from a nearby creek and crawls out. Then a drop of water falls on his head,
due to which he gets up and sees that there is dampness on the ceiling above him.
The next day, the townspeople return to the tree to see if another miracle can be performed.
But Father Hagan comes out and says that he has asked Alice to stay inside.
He thinks this is all a bit overwhelming for her, so nothing is gonna happen today.
Now everyone gets very sad after hearing this,
but then Alice comes out and goes near that tree, where hears some whispering and sees Mary.
She then goes to A young paraplegic boy, Toby Walsh. Alice speaks for Mary and tells Toby to
walk. To the astonishment of everyone, the boy gets up on his legs and starts walking
And everyone starts considering it a miracle of Mary. Gerry records the event and Everyone
begins to pray to Mary but Inside the church, the statue of the Virgin Mary appears to cry blood.
After this, we see the news of this miracle being broadcast on TV.
Gerry meets Bishop Gyles, who is working with Monsignor Delgarde,
sent by The Vatican to investigate whether or not Alice really did perform a divine miracle.
Delgarde tells them that to understand this miracle he intends to use all medical science
and technology available to disprove the alleged miracle and expose any deceit.
After this Alice appears in front of the media where Gerry asks her what Mary wants?
to which Alice says Their faith. Then we learn that Father Hagan is
ill and that the church is about to be converted into a shrine. Here Gerry asks Gyles the authority
that only he can talk to Alice and he promises to be fair. and he will personally take the hit
if these miracles come out to be false. Now Delgarde does not agree with him,
but Giles says that he would like to give Gerry a second chance.
On the other hand, Hagan goes to the tree and sees the broken doll on the ground, and during this,
we see a ghostly apparition appears to stalk him. Gerry sets up an interview with Alice,
where she says that Mary wants to reach as many people as possible.
Gerry asks her why did Mary choose her? To which she tells that Mary gives voice to the voiceless,
she prayed to her and she cured her. She opened herself up to mary and welcomed her in.
She tells him that mary told her that he misses the power he used to have with his words, and that
“she” saw someone in need of her help. She says that he should spread Mary's voice to the world.
Then Father Hagan comes there and says that he wants to talk to Gerry in private.
He tells Gerry not to take advantage of Alice and exploit her for personal gains
and then starts coughing heavily due to his emphysema. Here we come to know that
Hagan was worried about Alice because wherever God goes, the unholy follows.
He tells him that before this, whoever had seen Mary had either gone mad or had died.
Now when Gerry goes back to his hotel at night, we see a ghostly apparition behind him.
Gerry sits in at the church with Delgarde while Alice practices singing with Hagan. He starts to
have a violent coughing episode there due to which he collapses. As Gerry calls for an ambulance,
Alice places her hand on Hagan’s chest, and he suddenly finds himself breathing normally again.
Now both Delgarde and Gerry are quite surprised to see this.
But here the father sees a ghost behind Alice.
Natalie later does an x-ray for Hagan and compares it to one from a while back
and tells them that he is healed now. Then Gerry asks about Toby, to which she tells him that
there was no cure for his disease, but now he is completely cured and is able to walk properly.
Now believing that Alice truly healed Hagan’s condition,
the tree has officially been declared a shrine, and Banfield starts to gain more tourism.
Then Gerry gets a call from Monica and she asks him to join back. But he tells her that
he needs the editor's position, as he has the authority to talk to Alice and to reach her
they have to go through him. We then see Hagan smoking in the church
where he hears some whispering and sees a crack in the middle of the wall. He comes out with a
book in which he comes to know something about the devil and then we see him through a mask.
Gerry later talks to Natalie about the doll,
where she tells him that those particular dolls are meant to be good luck but are also known
for trapping evil things, putting the impossible date (February 31st) to keep them inside forever.
They then walk by the same creek he saw in his dream, he tells Natalie that he has seen
this place before and she tells him that in 1845 it became the property of the church.
Then he sees some bubbles rising in the water and he once again sees the apparition.
he tells Natalie that he wants to see Hagan, as something happened here which is connected to the
church. We then cut to Hagan who sees someone in the confessional. He goes there where he
hears the apparent voice of Mary who confesses that she has taken the Lord's name in vain,
been covetous, had impure thoughts, destroyed many lives and now she has come for him.
She tells him that she healed him and instead of faith, he repaid her with doubt.
Now Father Chhagan gets very scared after hearing this
and then Mary tells him that Satan has given her the power to perform miracles.
Hagan then steps out in fear and is confronted by Mary’s ghost, who asks him who is more powerful?
and then she attacks him. Then after some time when Gerry goes to the church, he finds Hagan
hung by the neck in an apparent suicide. After the medics take his body out,
Gerry speaks to Gyles, who asks for his discretion in this matter.
Gerry interviews Alice again, and she tells that Mary wants them to continue her work.
Here Gerry asks her if this could be the work of some demonic force?
to which she says that Doubt weakens faith. Now when Gerry comes to his hotel at night,
he hears the whispering again and this time he sees Mary who disappears the next moment.
Now while reviewing the footage later that night,
he slows down the footage to reveal something hidden: Mary’s ghost briefly flashing.
During Hagan’s funeral, Gerry and Natalie look in the church’s basement to find the church's
records where they find documents in Latin about demons and witches. They find a written piece on
Mary Elnor, who was a healer in her time, but anybody who doubted her would meet a grim fate.
The townspeople turned on Mary, She was captured and submerged in the icy water of Prquod Creek,
and She confessed to working for Satan. As punishment, a mask of the Virgin Mary was
nailed to her face and was burnt to death while trapping her spirit in the doll that Gerry broke.
Alice stands up during the service and tells the people that Mary wants them
to gather at the shrine for a special service. Now here they understand that Hagan was killed
because he must have come to know the truth and these miracles are not of God but Mary Elnor
posing as the Virgin Mary doing the devil's work Then Gerry starts to hear some voices there
and then Mary comes in front of them and attacks them but they manage to escape from there.
Next, Gerry and Natalie go to the Archdiocese of Boston to Gyles and Delgarde
to show them Hagan’s findings on Mary, but Gyles tells him that he already about this.
Delgarde notes he was never told about it, and Gyles doesn’t want anything to stop the service.
Gerry later does more research on Mary and tells Natalie that before Mary died, she had
a child that was adopted by a man named Nicholas Pagett, which means Alice is Mary’s descendant,
and Mary made a deal with the devil to live on through her children and their children and so on.
Only then does their connection break and that document catches fire. Gerry sees a Mother Mary
statue crackling there, from inside of which Mary comes out. Now she is about to attack him
but then Delgarde comes there and wards her off, now convinced of what Gerry was talking
about. He says that all those people who are believing in her are giving her more powers.
Now Delgarde joins Gerry and Natalie in the church to bless the doll and attempt to return Mary’s
spirit to the doll. When he lights the match, we see Mary standing behind him extinguishing it and
then suddenly the flames spread up to the large cross on the wall, which falls off and impales
Delgarde, setting him on fire as well. Gerry and Natalie run out and head over to the service.
The service is well underway, with Mary set to take in all the towns peoples’ faith to become
more powerful. Gerry and Natalie get there and realize that the only way to stop Mary is to
get everyone in attendance to doubt her power. Now Mary almost persuades the crowd to hand over their
souls to Mary, but then Natalie distracts her. Gerry tells the crowd that he faked the whole
thing and that Alice is not really a healer. He makes up some facts about
what happened with her being able to hear and Toby walking but claims those are just
medical effects. With Natalie joining in, the crowd starts to boo and renounce their faith.
Now Mary tells Alice that if they don't give their soul to her, she will never
be able to speak. But Alice says that Gerry is telling the truth and that Mary is not real.
Mary is pissed and begins to set the tree on fire. Now it causes chaos there and
Toby loses control of his legs again, and Natalie carries him out to safety.
Then Giles sees that Mary comes out of that burning tree,
comes in front of him, and takes off her mask. He attempts to subdue her, but Mary presses
her hand against his chest and disintegrates him. Seeing this, Gerry starts running away with Alice
but she suddenly appears in front of them. Then she throws Gerry on the ground and
starts crawling towards him. Then just as she was about to kill him, Alice stands in the way and
takes the hit. With Mary having killed her last descendant, her spirit can no longer live on,
and she screams as she fades into oblivion. Gerry then holds Alice’s body and
tearfully prays to God for her survival. She then suddenly comes alive, and Gerry hugs her.
Next, Gerry and Natalie go with Alice to Hagan’s grave to honor him. Although Alice
is once again deaf-mute, he finds a way to communicate with her. He tells Natalie that
he is stunned that Alice survived since she had no pulse and wasn’t breathing when he held her,
but Natalie thinks maybe God really did work a miracle.
After they leave, we see a verse from Matthew 7:15
– “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they
are ravening wolves.” The last thing we see is the statue of the Virgin Mary crying blood again,
which means Mary can still come back. Thanks for watching.