Pray for us , the horror film starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan
New installment of the section dedicated to the seventh art of Fonze and Daniel Calavera
'Pray for us' , the horror film starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan reaches Spanish cinemas and the new installment of 'Unas Cuantas Pelis' by Fonze and Dani Calavera . The film, directed by newcomer Evan Spiliotopoulos, is produced by Sam Raimi .
The film follows Alice , a young woman with a hearing impairment who witnesses the visitation of the Virgin Mary . After this event, he is able to listen, speak and heal the sick. The news reaches a discredited journalist named Gerry Fenn who, hoping to revive his career, goes to the scene to investigate. A series of paranormal phenomena will make you question whether it is really the work of the Virgin Mary or something more sinister .
The section also analyzes the premiere of the biopic 'The United States against Billie Holiday' , winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress and nominee for an Oscar and of the film that will star in the Aragón TV programming on Sunday night: 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ' , a remarkable piece of Clint Eastwood intrigue .
"The Unholy (Pray For Us)", the title produced by Sam Raimi, will be released this month in theaters
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Religious terror for Easter is undoubtedly the plan that fans of the genre want for those dates
Sony Pictures has decided ahead of Holy Week that The Unholy (Pray For Us) , the religious horror film produced by Sam Raimi , will be released in theaters in our country on March 31 .
Evan Spiliotopoulos has been in charge of directing this film, of which we showed you the official trailer a few days ago, and which tells how a deaf girl is visited by the Virgin Mary and suddenly begins to be able to listen, speak and heal the sick
As people flock to witness his miracles, terrible events begin to unfold ... Are they the work of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister?
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cary Elwes, William Sadler, Katie Aselton, Christine Adams, Celeste Oliva, Diogo Morgado, Janelle Feigley, Marina Mazepa are in charge of starring in the film.
'Pray for us': a worthy production of Catholic horror with more emphasis on the phenomenon of fake news than good scares 'Pray for us': a worthy production of Catholic horror with more emphasis on the phenomenon of fake news than good scares
A Sam Raimi will be blamed a lot as a producer of terror, sometimes his films are spot on , as ' Hell underwater ' (Crawl, 2019), and sometimes not, as ' The Curse ' (The Grudge, 2020 ), but he always goes on his own, proposing self-contained stories that can function unrelated to fashions, with a dedication to militant and seamless terror , and now he does it again with ' Pray for us ' (The Unholy, 2020).
This time he does put an eye on the religious horror film that has been setting the pace in Hollywood in recent years, with all the productions of the Warren and James Wan universe, although he already did it before in the vindicable 'The Possession'(2012), but he gives it a little more adult touch, with a more patient development of his characters and trying to explore the implications of his approach to diabolical miracles that adapt the best seller' Shrine ** '(1983) by James Herbert .
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Herbert, one of the highest-rated writers of the great explosion of the horror pocketbook after the success of Stephen King, had already been adapted a few times, with good fortune on all of them. ' The Survivor ' (The Survivor, 1981) is a highly vindicable Australian rarity, ' Radioactive Beasts ' (Deadly Eyes, 1982) a good killer rat movie and ' Bewitched ' (The Haunted, 1995) an outstanding ghost story that precedes the gothic terror of ' The Curse of Bly Manor ' (The Haunting of Bly Manor, 2020).
False prophets and fake news
' Pray for us ' is about a young woman with a hearing impairment who, after a supposed vision of the Virgin Mary, inexplicably begins to be able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads, a journalist visits the small New England town to investigate and terrifying events and strange deaths begin to happen, so the priests begin to question whether these phenomena are divine work or have something much more sinister behind them, with It is started by a festival of burning crosses, statues of the Virgin crying blood and acting as 'The Nun' from the Warren universe.
Perhaps the series ' Supernatural ' (2005-2020) had evidence of Herbert's novel, but already in his episode 'Faith' a very similar story was followed, although this debut by Evan Spiliotopoulos revolves around the phenomenon of the Marian apparitions and sanctuaries based on miraculous visions such as Fátima, Lourdes or El Palmar , to introduce an archetypal supernatural horror story in which ideas of truth and faith weigh more than scenes of fear, somewhat mechanical and without much will to go. beyond the goofy scare and with volume.
But in return there is a more relaxed story and with a certain desire to tell something, although it is almost a vehicle for actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, acting here as an unscrupulous journalist facing the supernatural with nuances of Miguel Ferrer from ' The Night Flyer ' 1997) or Bradley Cooper in ' The wagon of death ' (Midnight Meat Train, 2008), but exploring the angle of the redemption of an unscrupulous man that reflects the current information society.
And it is that ' Pray for us ' builds its history around sacred images and Catholic icons, which in principle may remind ' Stigmata ' (1999) or 'The exorcism of Emily Rose ' (2005), for their look at miraculous events around any young woman, but they are only the instruments on which the main threat feeds its power, miraculous manifestations adulterated as an irreverent metaphor of deception as a way to power and the publicity of politics and institutions.
Uncomplicated classic horror
The biblical quote from Matthew 7: 15-20 “Beware of false prophets. They come to you disguised as sheep, but inside they are ferocious wolves. You will know them by their fruits ”of applies to the idea of truth, virals, influencers, the media in the era of twitter and, ultimately, about fake news as a way of gaining power, taking their idea to the religion, how it feeds back on the state in the US and of course as a warning against a new case of populism ** in the ways of Steve Bannon.
A pity that the film does not dare to go further, and in the end leaves a taste of the mouth of a standard studio product with its classic curse horror scheme without too many surprises, in tune with 'In the dark' (Darkness Falls, 2003), with a fairly similar appearance, but at least with nods to classic horror like that prologue ' The Demon's Mask ' (1960) and dark sins of a rural parish like the town of ' The Fog ' (The Fog, 1980), or the cure terror in the confessional of ' The Exorcist III ' (The Exorcist III, 1990).
'Pray for us' could be better with some simple adjustments and more pampering in the terror, and it leaves a trace of lost opportunity, but it is appreciated that it seeks some plot coherence, there is a solid script and worries about details such as its actors, with a suitably repulsive Cary Elwes, and a sublime William Sadler. Multiroom horror that does not try to advance in the genre and, although it settles for little, it offers certain guarantees, a disturbing atmosphere and a good collection of Catholic effigies with creepy Gothic echoes .
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