The Unholy follows Gerry Fenn, a disgraced reporter who travels to Banfield, Massachusetts, after hearing about a strange report involving a cow found badly cut. He meets Alice, a hearing-impaired teenage girl who suddenly hears, speaks, and heals sick people after seeing a woman who looks like the Virgin Mary. Crowds fill the small New England town, while church officials and the news media try to control the miracle. Gerry first wants a story that will repair his career, but he must decide whether the power is holy or a trap from a demon. The tone is dark and built around sudden scares, religious images, and growing danger.
The film uses Catholic churches, prayers, saints, a vision of Mary, and a battle between God and the devil as its main ideas. It also shows false faith, public panic, greedy church leaders, dishonest reporting, and Gerry's path toward doing the right thing. Alice's hearing loss makes the miracle seem personal, while her new powers draw the town into a dangerous promise of healing. The movie asks whether people will trust a miracle before they learn where its power comes from.
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Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Unholy.
Woke representation / casting
Not present. Alice is a hearing-impaired girl because her sudden healing starts the story. The movie shows no diversity-first casting message or repeated identity pattern in its main group.
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Woke political dialogue
Not present. The characters discuss miracles, faith, journalism, and redemption. The film has no recurring modern political or activist speech.
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Identity-driven story themes
Not present. Alice’s disability, the miracle claims, and the religious conflict serve the horror plot. The movie does not build its message around race, gender, sexuality, or modern identity politics.
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Western institutional / cultural critique
Not present. The movie shows a greedy bishop and a dishonest reporter using people for fame. The story treats those actions as a warning about false miracles, not as a modern activist attack on Christianity or Western culture.
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Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant. The movie moves the story from the book to Massachusetts and combines some characters. The director describes these as normal changes needed to center Gerry’s redemption, not identity-driven changes.
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Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Not present. Religious viewers complained that a demon copies the Virgin Mary and called the film deeply disrespectful. Those complaints did not claim that the movie pushes woke, DEI, or left-wing identity politics.
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Creator track record context
The listed creators have stored woke scores from 0 to 18. Evan Spiliotopoulos has no known record of political activism or identity-focused work in the stored notes. The other listed creators also have no clear activist or DEI record. This gives the title only a weak creator track record signal.
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