Unholy Night

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Director: Michael Gabriele Year: 2019 Runtime: 85 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.2
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The film centers on Gino, whose traditional Italian family Christmas Eve celebration descends into chaos when his deceased grandmother returns from the dead and embarks on a killing spree. As more dead relatives begin appearing throughout the neighborhood, Gino must find a way to eliminate the holiday revenants and make it through the family gathering alive.

Chapter I[edit] On September 21, 1987, Catholic priest John Ward returns to the Martin residence in rural Sterling, Connecticut, to complete the exorcism of 17-year-old Amy Martin, though the mission has not been approved by the Holy See. One year earlier, Amy killed her parents and John's superior, Father Allred, during the exorcism ritual. While approaching the house through the surrounding woods, he is stalked by a pale humanoid monster that he repels with his cross. Entering the house, John battles Amy in the attic. He fails to finish the exorcism, and she throws herself out of a window, fleeing into the woods. John then finds a gun with a single bullet. Shooting any of five specific targets concludes the chapter and results in a different ending. Killing Amy causes John to be arrested for murder and accused of impersonating a priest. Shooting a shadowy figure near a shed ends with John being ambushed by the pale monster. Shooting a deer causes John to be killed by another deer. Shooting a fox corpse left at an apparent ritual site ends with John being captured by cultists. Lastly, shooting the pale monster (which appears near the car if none of the aforementioned targets are shot) causes it to retreat along the road before it is then run over by a passing truck. The monster's remains baffle authorities and are reported as a Chupacabra, and John comments that though he does not know how to explain what happened at the Martin house, he can have faith that he did the right thing. Chapter II prologue[edit] Seemingly taking place after the fifth ending of Chapter I, Chapter II's prologue sees John crash his car into an oncoming truck driven by a cultist (named in the game as "Thralls"). Afterwards, John sees a rather unsettling scarecrow, which grows a hole after John exorcises a demon in the nearby cornfield. Afterwards, John finds a dead dog and six graves as well as a statue of Saint William. He eventually finds a derelict church. Going into it he finds a note talking about a nun named "Sister Bell" and her history with the church. He also discovers another demon and exorcises it too, learning more about Bell's strange behavior with the church's orphans. As he continues to investigate the ruined church, he exorcises various objects, learning more about Sister Bell along the way, which seems to break some sort of invisible seal on the staircase leading to the church's basement. Going down, it is pitch black and John finds a flashlight. He defeats yet another demon (which will later be encountered in Chapter II proper) before leaving the basement and going back up. There are two endings to this chapter, the first simply requires John to go up after leaving the basement. There he sees two purple children holding hands before a cloaked old woman appears and yells "HERE I AM!". The second ending requires John to burn the scarecrow from before and turn into a demon himself. Doing so, he meets the same lady who screams at him to "GET OUT!". Chapter II[edit] The main character in Chapter II, Father John Ward, walking through the forest A priest, Father Garcia, attempts to exorcise a teenager he is holding captive named Michael Davies, who is revealed to be the pale monster from Chapter I. Michael breaks free from his restraints, and escapes after killing a passerby. John Ward, while suffering a crisis of faith due to the events at the Martin house, travels to Gallup Cemetery in Connecticut to investigate strange activity. He is chased across the cemetery and beyond by demonic creatures, including Amy Martin, who afflicts him with terrifying visions and tortures, before eventually finding a hidden cultist sanctuary in the sewers. After he enters the inner sanctum and is attacked by the cloaked old woman from the Prologue, Father Garcia appears and asks for John's help to defeat her by reciting the 91st Psalm. Following a demonic onslaught (where Father Garcia may die if not protected), the woman transforms into a horrifying demon. John then awakens in his bed, revealing the events to be a dream. He reads a letter from Father Garcia, asking him to help stop the imminent summoning of a powerful demon. Chapter III[edit] On October 28, three days until the "Profane Sabbath", John receives a letter from Father Garcia asking him to search the now-abandoned clinic where Amy Martin worked as a volunteer. Inside, he is attacked by a mangled humanoid creature, knocked unconscious, and strapped to a gurney. John escapes the creature and is freed by a police officer. As they attempt to leave, the creature attacks again and is defeated. John may leave at this point, or he can return to the clinic's basement and solve a puzzle to fight a secret boss in the form of the demonic Mother and her children. On October 29, two days until the Profane Sabbath, John goes to an apartment building in New Haven to assist a woman named Lisa, his childhood friend, who had been sending him letters asking for help. He finds the apartment buildi…

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