Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Well, i just wanted to write this because i understood a bit more than above reviewer did of the plots of the three segments of this horror film UNHOLY WOMEN.While above synopsis is also correct, the chase sequence in the first story Rattle Rattle appears to be a dream sequence. The creepy monster lady in red appears to be a ugly man with big eyes that gets crazier looking as the movie progresses. it seems funny, esp after she brings the ugly lady down with a vase to the head, but you will be getting the goosebumps after it keeps coming up like a zombie, and relentlessly chasing her until she wakes up in a hospital room. She feels like she understands what happens but eventually the monster reveals itself and the cycle repeats itself. Great horror timing and great prosthetics BUT the cheesy video effects might kill some of the horror factor. This was my favorite segment, nonetheless.The second segment was weird and comical (think Little Shop of Horror), and the third - from how I understood it - was about mother and child who go home to their ancestral home. The mother gets possessed by an older spirit (one that already killed a relative in another lifetime) and wants to be with the living child.There's not a lot of cohesion in the stories, and mostly, I feel like the short stories were more experimental in nature than they were strict narratives, but echoing the earlier reviewer's sentiment: the lack of plot for all 3 stories give way to the opportunity for more creepy horror.PS. I tried watching American Horror Story before this one and was NOT interested nor amused. Rattle rattle (the first segment) disturbed me more. Goes to show you don't need million $ effects to create a good (horror) story.

The only reason I picked this one up is because I'm stalking the four women who starred in the fabulous Japanese independent film Strawberry Shortcakes and one of those women is in this film. She's my least favorite of the four but it's probably not her fault, more likely it's due to her character in that film.Unholy Women is three unconnected thirty minute shorter films packed together to make a longer ninety minute film. My target stars in the first of the three called "Rattle Rattle". She's hanging out with some guy who's married and that's all we need to know in order to proceed to the rest of the film where my heroine runs around screaming, all frightened and sweaty, trying to avoid the clutches of a J-Horror-Goth-Chick—which is another reason I picked this one up. I love the JHGC.Usually the JHGC is depicted as a ghostly white, youngsterish, somewhat sympathetic, semi-sensuous spirit having a bad hair day. The one in this film is ugly with a capital F, and wears red. I think she is supposed to be more real than her genre sisters but she does have the signature slow, bone rattling shuffle that allows for lots of responsive screaming time. It's hard to say what "Rattle Rattle" is about because I don't remember it having much of a story beyond the running around and the infidelity setup, but I think it's pretty good because of several JHGC moments. I don't remember how it ends.The second film is called "Steel" and it's pretty funny because it tries to be creepy but doesn't know which way to go. It stars a girl who is a burlap sac from the waist up and likes to sew. Her father pumps (literally, with a pump) gallons of what appears to be liposuction remains through a tube into her sac part and lures young men into dating her by offering them a job and showing them a picture of some hot babe. One guy, with the requisite diversity training I guess, dates her and sees beyond, through, around—I don't know—the burlap sac part and tries to have sex with her. He crawls between her legs in an enlightened post-feminism foreplay maneuver to get under her sac and never comes out. Surprise, surprise.The third film is called "Sleep My Child", and it's about a cute young boy whose world is mysterious and confusing, has some dead people floating around behind him, a freaky grandmother, and an abusive mother with an overly kind public comportment, all of which is exacerbated by the fact that his mom always seems to be waving goodbye to him when she really means 'come here'. That confused me too.All in all Unholy Women has some reasonably creepy atmosphere without a lot of plot to get in the way. Look for it in the cheap bin or on late night cable.More reviews at http://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/