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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 77859
Released: September 4, 2007 |
| Our Price: $6.96 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
War breeds horrors but does it also breed supernatural evil weapons to add to the devastation? A teenage girl s suicide leads to an investigation into another sinister side of the experiments conducted by the Nazis and the conspiracy to cover them up by the U.S. government. Nicholas Brendon (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) and Adrienne Barbeau (SWAMP THING and CREEPSHOW) star in this story about the boundless evil behind the most unholy of weapons.System Requirements:Running Time: 86 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 013131533491 Manufacturer No: DV15334
Unholy Reviews:
Not so hot 
2008-09-20 - I mainly picked this up because I'm a Buffy fan and wanted to see Nicholas Brendon do something besides Xander Harris. Well, you could still see Xander in his character...
Anyway, the movie over all wasn't so great. Over all, it was pretty boring.
Inventive, Bizarre, Twisty and somehow. . .Lean 
2008-04-13 - This one will get reviews all over the place because it doesn't fit any mold. It's not the regular glossy splatter horror we're used to. It has no over the top, technological edge special effects. And the production values seem. . .spare-- purposefully barebone.
Yet, it's Different. Think of it not as a Horror "movie"-- but like a Horror "Play". Yes, the bodies start piling up in a mondo-funny way, but the actors are not playing this as 'Camp'. It's contained, inward-spiralling madness.
Best watched Late Night-- after Midnight.
Time Travel, Torture, Mind Control, cold blooded murder and Nazis who may or may NOT be dead.
This one has the feel of a new cult classic to me.
OVERLY BIZARRE...PICK A GENRE... 
2007-11-09 - Unholy is not an easy movie to classify...part horror, part sci-fi, part psychological thriller, it isn't great in any one area but it is an interesting `small' movie. I use the word small because the two stars, Barbeau and Brendon, ad onscreen throughout almost the entire film. This isn't a scary movie, per se, but it is creepy. It's one of those films that makes you wonder just what the heck is going on throughout most of the movie but a twist at the end brings everything home.
Barbeau is Martha who returns home with flowers for her teenage daughter, Hope. But Hope has locked herself in the outdoor storm cellar with a gun to her head, babbling incoherently about some experiment...just before she pulls the trigger. Brendon plays older brother Lucas in a role not unlike `Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's slightly timid and tries to make up for it with humor. Martha wants to know why her daughter would take her own life and what this experiment is that she referred to before she took her own life. They find a hidden room in the basement with a painting of a crazed looking man wearing Nazi symbols. Martha falls asleep several times only to find herself in this room, strapped into a chair, and listening to an old record phonograph playing some crazed, cult-like chanting.
This is a film where virtually every character they encounter is some kind of nut or seems to know something about what's going on...from the guy who runs the flower shop to Martha's old next door neighbor, Charlie. Martha and Nicholas discover that the man in the painting was a Nazi scientist working on an experiment with the U.s. Government on what they called the Unholy Trinity: Time Travel, Mind Control, and invisibility. The more they discover, the more strange things become...there's encounters with strange kids in cemeteries, Nazi soldiers, and something morphing out of Martha's own living room floor and grabbing her ankle. You really do wonder where all this is going as it's just so over-the-top bizarre.
REVIEWED BY TIM JANSON
Unholy no....... unbelievably bad........ YES 
2007-11-04 - When I first read about this film in FANGORIA magazine months ago, I was excited........ The government continuing the occult experiments the Nazi Germans were dabbling with during the 1930-1940s.
Sounded like an excellent premise.
Now let me say right now, I don't like to criticize creative work unless it REALLY deserves it.
I know how hard it is to create movies and music.
So I only write reviews on Amazon for 2 reasons...
1) Something is VERY VERY good and I want to tell people they should see it.
2) Something is SO BAD, I feel obligated to warn others not to waste their time.
UNHOLY is beyond bad.
I dont' know if they were trying to be silly with this film, or experiment with music video ideas... or actually what they were trying to do.
This film suffers from the ....... "since we are blending together government conspiracy, Nazis, the occult, time travel, invisibility and mind control all into a single plot line, we don't have to worry about consistency. NOTHING needs to connect together or make sense."
So for 117 minutes this film jumps back and forth with images of people effected by the events of the Necromancer and the continuation of these radical new blendings of the occult and science.....but do we really care ?
NO
There is never any feeling of tension or suspense.
Never any care for any of the characters. Let them all die, good riddance.
Never a real feeling that this "threat" will affect the outside world.
It is rare this happens with a movie, but you almost find yourself angry at the end that you spent 2 hours of your life actually paying for and watching this.
We had a "movie night" with 5 people at the house (all aged 43-50) who have probably seen every horror and sci-fi film in history.
At the end the group honestly looked at each other and said out loud........ "Do we all agree that was probably the worst piece of crap you have ever seen?"
The only worst film we could recall was "Blair Witch Project".
UNHOLY is right--unholy boring
2007-10-24 - I can't believe the "good reviews". The acting was bad. I'm normally a fan of Adrienne Barbeau.
But I wasn't impressed with it. IT BORED ME SILLY and I had to really fight to stay awake.
