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Released
2021 · FILM

The Unholy

A disgraced journalist travels to a remote New England town to document miraculous healings that could resurrect his career, only to discover the miracles are fueled by a terrifying, otherworldly force threatening everyone involved.

Be careful who you pray to.

Runtime
99 min
DramaHorrorMystery

Synopsis

Alice is a young girl who is deaf and, following what is believed to be a visitation from the Virgin Mary, suddenly regains the ability to hear and speak, and is also able to heal the sick. As news of her miraculous abilities spreads, people from various places travel to the small New England town to witness them. A journalist, whose career has fallen into disrepute, arrives to investigate the phenomenon. As unsettling events begin to unfold, he becomes uncertain whether the occurrences are the result of divine intervention or something far more dangerous.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jake YorkShot by Craig WrobleskiScored by Joseph BisharaDesigned by Felicity Abbott

Box Office

2021 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$30.8M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$30.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.5M 50% of worldwide · International: $15.3M (50%)

Opening weekend: $3.2M 20% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.3M28% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,850 theaters

Also known as

  • Sanctuairefr
  • Il sacro maleit

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