“The Unholy” (** out of four) was a mindlessly derivative adaptation of James Herbert’s horror novel about a young deaf girl (Cricket Brown) who is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly heal the sick and is visited and worshipped by millions but a disgraced journalist (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a local priest (William Sadler) and bishop (Cary Elwes) begin to suspect that some sinister paranormal activity may be at play. Good cast tries their best to inject all the life they can but are defeated by well-worn material. By this point, there have been at least 100 horror movies too many about religion and the church.

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