 Demons? Like there's- Those Minions- Those Mitchet Minion things? They're all punching him! Hello and welcome to another edition of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure But before we get started, what are we drinking? Amarillo Smash Today we're going to be covering 1988 The Unholy The Unholy was directed by Camillo Villa Ben Cross is in this and he was in First Night I was all obsessed with that movie in the mid 90s The Crush on Richard Gears Who didn't? The Exorcist beginning and he was also Cerec in the new Star Trek movies but who gives a fuck about them? Ned Beatty is in this and he's in one of our all time favorite movies of all time Deliverance Of course a lot of us remember him as being Otis in the Superman movies Mr. Luto Hal Holbrooks in this and he's in John Carpenter's The Fog as well as Rituals which we covered last year That's right, click the link above When he starts off with this priest in his church and he's kneeling down praying this woman appears and she's very scantily clad and you can see everything It's a nice beginning to a movie It's a very nice way to start off a movie Mesmerized by this woman I think anybody would, you know He really starts to get into it You see her hand swipe across and then you see his throat all ripped open She really did a fucking number on him too We then get introduced to Father Michael into this high-rise apartment building to talk down a potential suicide victim So while he's trying to talk the guy back into the room this guy turns into a monster quickly and throws him out throws him out the window Super dummy Ohhhh It then cuts to like this blind priest and he's like, oh I guess he's not the one Turns out that he survived the fall He survived it, but survived it completely unscathed and right away that same priest we chose correctly He is the one He's like alright, okay So because of this they give him a church to take over and to make his own and they mention that this priest before him was killed brutally and at Beatty's character he plays a detective and he's investigating the murder of that priest but also he tells the father about another previous murder to that that nobody told him about mentions that day planner from the other priest he all hides it too and everything Plants to the day planner just for him to find it himself two seconds later is why he planted So he mentions that in the day planner this priest was supposed to meet this girl Millie called the threshold and so father Michael decides to go down to that club to see what he can find out He shows up at this nightclub it is like this satanic nightclub they're all doing these rituals like killing people in the club and broad daylight in front of tons of people and he's all wearing that sick mask with that G string thing He finds Millie and she's kind of like a waitress there she avoids him she doesn't want to talk to him but she shows up at his church she starts telling him that the owner of this club Luke ensnared her and that she's committed her body and sold to this Luke guy but she kind of wants out of it so she takes asylum at this church one day out in this courtyard she starts seducing father Michael taking her clothes off but he is a priest right he won't break his vow even if it means saving this girl's soul which she thinks that's what will happen this Luke guy shows up at the church to talk to the father the father doesn't like this Luke guy because all the stuff that he's heard from Millie but Luke says no no no that's all a show the whole satanist thing that's just all a big show it's show business baby and he also tells the father that he's been having these weird phenomenon happen to him and he's seeking the priest's help and he wants the priest to kind of watch over him one night when he sleeps and things have been happening at night father Michael goes to this guy's pad this nice bachelor pad he's all got his outfit on that mannequin his satanic outfit he's sleeping underneath all these satin sheets and everything all this wind blows through the whole apartment the windows blow open all the papers swilling everywhere the sheets come off that Luke guy is all in his underwear what the hell happened so now the priest is like oh jeez something's happening here father Michael goes to the arch bishop and this weird blind priest and they start telling him that you've been chosen to do battle with this demon at this church and that's where we're going to end the plot so if you want to see how the unholy ends keep watching the review that'll bring us to the treasure of this the first thing you'll notice about this movie the get go is the effects the effects are really good in this top notch 80s practical effects you can't beat that baby and the kills for this movie are really good like you've got the first kill there the priest who gets his throat ripped open which is really cool Luke is another one where they find him he's hanging upside down on the cross and he's all skinned up and gutted and everything too the priest doesn't even really seem that phased by it actually which I would is like you come in like holy Christ there's another scene where the guy who father Michael came to talk off the ledge goes to visit him and he starts puking all this blood like just tons of blood like his whole guts and everything all right on the church floor great effect again he doesn't really seem all that phased by it it's almost like he's seen it before near the end of this movie there's some really crazy cool monster designs when you see this actual demon in its minions the floor opens up into hell and everything like it's awesome yeah there's some really good effects in this movie and that kind of goes hand in hand with the visuals because there's a lot of fog mist and even in the daytime there's all this fog the priest are getting together all drinking and everything outside this nice green area fogs all coming in out of nowhere like what the hell fog daytime it all helps but it helps yes a lot of shadows use of really cool lighting effects settings are really good too like the church churches are always a good setting for horror movie because they're kind of creepy with all the statues yeah and just the way they light it in this movie it looks really creepy the movie does hinge on a murder mystery kind of thing it's how the movie plays out with all the movie mystery stuff and it's kind of neat to how all the characters that you're introduced to you don't really believe any of their motives you question all of their motives you don't know if Luke is telling the truth yeah if Millie is telling the truth if the priests themselves the Archbishop like he's hiding something too everyone's a suspect almost the music in this movie is fantastic too it's typical 80s horror movie music but it just suits it perfectly yeah and it does have sax appeal too yeah lots of saxophone yeah the acting for this movie is really good I mean you got a lot of top notch actors in this movie they deliver it perfectly you know it's believable for what it is and the movie is sexy yeah sexy as hell yeah a lot of good looking women you see it all the guys like Luke is kind of like presented as like a sexy guy too so it's kind of a sleek and sexy movie yeah words both ways right not just with women that'll bring us to the trash for the unholy and the first thing I have to mention is just the way the movie plays out in the structure and the way it's put together kind of doesn't make any sense yeah yeah it's kind of all over the place as the movie progresses you don't really learn much yeah exactly kind of you get hit in the face in the beginning with this crazy opening and then the movie just kind of flat lines all the way to the end it just coasts all the way to the end and then the end is a big huge ordeal but all the middle you don't learn anything about like what's going on what this demon is yeah what the priest is doing there there's a lot of useless scenes in this movie and it's a long run time too it's like an hour 45 it could easily be cut down to an hour and a half yeah fuck even an hour 20 maybe to just make it all kind of a bit more concise there's also that scene in the beginning like after the priest dies then they show father Michael going to the scene of this crime and like this guy lying down on the ground his face is all mashed up and everything and he grabs and he's like she's coming for you and then he dies and it's like what the hell does that have to do with anything and the dialogue too for this movie a lot of it is pointless because it doesn't solve anything it just sort of raises more questions yeah and a lot of it is also boring to the priests and stuff they're saying a lot but nothing really registers that much because it's boring you tend to tune out it doesn't mean anything when they finally tell father Michael why he they chose him to be at this church it's like minutes and minutes of just rambling on all this nonsense and like religious jargon and then you come out of it like I have no clue what the hell that they're even talking about yeah yeah you don't know what the stakes are in this movie if the demon wins it does she take over the world after or what was the church like what's yeah what's at stake you don't really know no you don't know and so then you tend not to really care that much either I find there's not enough lore or not enough backstory on why this is all happening you just know it's some demon called the unholy and that's all you know yeah why is it there this does the demon keep coming back because there's the old blind priests that obviously had some kind of confrontation so now the demon is back again so it's like so do you have to keep defeating this demon why is it at this church in particular you don't know that yeah so much questions that aren't answered in this yeah the story is very flimsy very flimsy story doesn't really make much sense you know and there's a lot of useless characters in this movie that don't really add anything or have like a conclusion to their story like Ned Beatty's character the detective he just kind of comes out of the movie willy nilly you don't know what happens to him yeah you don't really know why he cares so much about this particular case and then he just disappears and you never see him again like well if you so invested in it why doesn't he come in at the end to help or anything yeah yeah yeah even like when Luke he has that book and he takes the book to those psychic women and they they read it and they get all these feelings from it and start going all nuts and then that's kind of that's the end of that it's like well what is the deal with this book yeah yeah you don't really find out what the deal with this book is that everyone's reading from and yeah getting all scared from wish they would have went somewhere with that oh yeah they don't really go anywhere with anything in this movie yeah it's just everything is just kind of there at face value that's right yeah there's a lot of misuse of good actors in this like Hal Hallbrook and Ned Beatty play very small parts it's like man they should be playing bigger parts in this their roles should be bigger in the grand scheme of things the ending too for this movie is like completely out of left field it's a very cool ending but it's not necessary it doesn't feel like it fits the movie at all the movie starts at 100 goes to about 30 for like an hour and 40 minutes and then the last 5 minutes goes to 100 again yeah in the craziest way there's all these demons like there's those Minions Minion things and they're all punching him so he's fighting off all these Minion demons and there's that thing all walking that thing and it looks kind of like it looks cool but it looks too puppety you know it's too puppetish there's an obvious man in there and it's just crazy and it comes out of nowhere it goes from like he's wondering why he's there to suddenly battling demons and they're all feeding them all at those pieces of her body what the fuck is going on demons all trying to give him a blow job and everything those big teeth where did this come from what the hell's going on I kind of wish they would have had more stuff like that throughout the whole movie so it doesn't hit you so hard at the end when you finally see it plus it would have made the movie a lot cooler I think it's kind of a flat feeling sort of movie all around that would have elevated it and then the way he defeats the demon then he wins and that's it what the hell can a battle is that God please help me and then you win it's that easy and it's also not definitive enough too for this movie you're still at the very end the last second of this movie you're still left with more questions and answers like what the hell like why did that happen how come he's still left like this what does Millie have to do with Allie so you don't really know what her part to play in the whole story really was and then at the end it just shows this statue start to cry blood and that's the end so like what is it over did they win I don't know like you don't really you don't get any answers no answers whatsoever the unholy 1988 trash or treasure well this is a movie now for me I watched it the second time for this review the first time I watched it I liked it but I thought it was trash I was like you know this is like all just garbage basically but the second time a lot more stuff got answered for me and even though there's a lot of holes in this movie I still think it's treasure yeah I'll have to say trash it's just such a mess the movie is just a fucking mess visually pleasing like hell but man is this story a damn jumble it's a movie I think I could put on in the background not really pay a whole lot of attention to but I would put it on again yeah it's got tons of potential this movie oh yeah if they were just to flesh out the whole story behind the demon and what the demon is trying to accomplish and why it's there that would solve a lot of problems in this movie you may be just as torn as we are by it yeah it's one of those movies it does kind of your your split a little down the middle with it and if you guys have seen it let us know cause we're really curious what other people think about this movie cause we are kind of torn about it so it'd be good to have some other perspectives on it that's right and until next time keep drinking