FORMAT: DVD
A sailor named Gabe returns home to see his sister. Whenever he asks anyone about his girlfriend, they immediately clam up. He soon learns she married another man while he was out to sea and to make matters worse, someone seems to have it in for him. After the mysterious figure blows up his car, Gabe searches for answers.
The central mystery of The Unholy Child isn’t very involving. Not that the film needed a great mystery to hold all the sex scenes together. It’s just that you need… well… SOMETHING here to keep your interest. Since the sex scenes are not hot and seemingly go on forever (as does the nude dance scene) and the plot stinks, there’s nothing here to captivate the viewer. Also, the music drops in and out during the sex scenes and the dubbing is poor too. You know it’s bad when the characters walk by a strip club advertising “Exotic Lady Wrestlers” and you root for them to go inside as the promise of exotic lady wrestlers is infinitely more interesting than anything else on screen.
Yes, The Unholy Child is pretty much a mess from start to finish. The most amusing aspects about it are just how inept it is. The shot of Gabe’s car blowing up is hilarious as it’s just a model car being blown up by a firecracker. This is the film’s sole highlight, but it’s worth the extra Half-Star. Trust me.
It’s also painfully obvious that the “man” following our hero is really a woman in drag. In fact, the reveal of the killer may be the most infuriating thing about the movie as we already know who the killer is, but the film ends so abruptly that we never find out WHY they were after our hero. Plus, we never learn what the Hell the title means. Argh.
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