8/21/2023 0 Comments The unholy filmWhat can I say? I have read all the books and never been disappointed with any from the Rats to the final Ash novel, he will be sadly missed. There is really no way in hell (pardon the pun) that any movie can take the atmosphere, character development, story development, and creative horror genius that exists in the writing of JH (Who incidentally, I rate above Stephen King and even Clive Barker as the best horror writer of all time). It was a very sad day when he passed to the other side and to be honest, I do not think it is possible to convert any of his books, realistically, to a movie format although possibly the best and truest to the book from which it came was "Haunted (1995)" although while not a good port from the book I also enjoyed "The Survivor (1981)". I have read every book the horror genius, that is James Herbert, has ever written. Solid 6 IMO due to acting and overall theme. But, hits a wall halfway through and never recovers. Entertaining for at least half the movie. It's like they spent a year recording the first half and a month on the second. Second half of the movie ignores the setup, ignores the characters and goes straight to the source of the problems. First half of the movie does a good setup job for the characters and direction. It provides the conclusions verses letting the audience figure them out. Even though the story felt like one we've seen a million times, I liked the premise and overall theme but the movie veers off and hits walls, then takes off at full speed before veering off into more walls. Directing and Editing were just OK and could have been better IMO. Of course, the movie didn't feel connected to itself after 52 minutes and goes wildly into warp speed conclusions. At times, it felt like the cast was not as connected to the movie as they could be. Cricket Brown was especially impressive because I believe this movie is one of her first larger productions and she gives the impression of being a pro in this department. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, William Sadler, Cary Elwes and Cricket Brown were all great. That all said, I think the cast was good. I'll admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for horror movies based around religion as generally they seem to be more interesting to me. However, it's definitely a fairly original take on the classic horror genre (demonic/possession). likely had an issue with the script and pacing. I think people that are genuine and gave the movie a low score. Almost like two different directors made this movie. Second half, feels like a rush to the finish line. First half sets things up and it's creepy and exactly what you'd expect. First half of the movie feels like a different flick than the second half. And so, Evan had to devise a plan to shoot them in their location - Portugal for Diogo and I think Cary was in Scotland - and then put all the actors together in one scene.While The Unholy is DEFINITELY not a 10 or a 9. We couldn't get Cary Elwes and Diogo (Morgado), we couldn't get them back for the second half of filming, they were both overseas, and stuck. Back then, though, when we were doing Unholy, it was people in like Hazmat suits running around, and we were very separated. I mean, here, in Georgia, I test two times a day, every day, for COVID. They're the safest places to be right now. And now, by the way, the only place I feel safe is on sets. Somehow, in all of this, was, oh s-, I've still got to do a performance and put it on screen! It was much more COVID-based than it was film-based for a while. As safe as we were, we still had a positive test when we went back, and so we shut down for another week, and it was a lot of craziness. We were also so early back, the only thing that had been shooting at that point was like Jurassic Park, and we kept hearing that people were getting sick, and they were having to shut down production, and so there was all of that. When we did go back to finish I wasn't even thinking about the movie, to be honest with you, I was way more concerned with safety protocols.
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