a worthy production of Catholic horror with more emphasis on the phenomenon of fake news than good scares

A Sam Raimi He can be blamed for many things as a horror producer, sometimes his films hit the spot, like ‘Underwater Hell’ (Crawl, 2019), and sometimes not, like ‘The Curse’ (The Grudge, 2020), but he always goes for free, proposing self-contained stories that can function unfashionably, with a dedication to militant terror, and seamless, and now he does it again with ‘Pray for us’ (The Unholy, 2020).

This time he does have an eye on the religious horror cinema 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 gives it a little more adult touch, with a more patient development of its characters and trying to explore the implications of his diabolical miracle approach that adapt the best seller ‘Shrine **’ (1983) by James Herbert.

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