The Unholy

Turning "The Song of Bernadette" into a horror film is a starter, but then it stalls

Cricket Brown makes a splash in the rare good megaplex nightmare, where she plays a deaf-mute young woman channeling the spirit of the Virgin Mary -- or is it a different Mary? -- in small-town Massachusetts.

There are some cool effects, like the ink melting off the pages of a holy text, and others that are tired visual clichés, like a spontaneously combusting crucifix.