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Unholy Communion (2025)
Unholy Communion (2025)
Overview
Unholy Communion is a 2025 crime thriller directed by Patrick Coyle and adapted from Thomas Rumreich's novel Scandia. Set in a small Minnesota town, it follows local detective Chris Majek as he investigates the murders of Catholic priests with histories of clergy abuse, revealing buried community secrets. Adam Bartley stars as Majek, alongside Vincent Kartheiser and Bridgett Johnson.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
Unholy Communion is a 2025 crime thriller directed by Patrick Coyle and adapted from Thomas Rumreich's novel Scandia. Set in a small Minnesota town, it follows local detective Chris Majek as he investigates the murders of Catholic priests with histories of clergy abuse, revealing buried community secrets. Adam Bartley stars as Majek, alongside Vincent Kartheiser and Bridgett Johnson.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around the murder of pedophile priests, critiquing the Catholic Church's systemic failures in handling abuse scandals. This focus on institutional cover-ups and the need for accountability drives a left-leaning perspective without endorsing extralegal solutions.
Diverse supporting roles complement a white-led cast in this thriller. The story condemns the Catholic Church's concealment of clergy sexual abuse, framing institutional male authority as complicit in harm to victims.
Secondary
Thriller narrative engages church scandal and victim trauma without depicting family structures or norms.
The film centers on the murders of Catholic priests with histories of sexual abuse, revealing the Church's complicity in protecting predators. It evokes empathy for victims while portraying the institution as hypocritical and oppressive, with no redeeming depiction of the faith's virtues. The narrative critiques vigilante justice but reinforces the Church's systemic failures.
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes appear in the film.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative centers on a police investigation into the murders of priests with histories of abuse, without addressing trans identities.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The adaptation retains the genders of key characters from the source novel, including male investigator Chris Majek and male priests, with no evidence of gender swaps for canonical roles.
Unholy Communion adapts Thomas Rumreich's original 2020 novel, a fictional thriller about priest murders linked to abuse scandals, with no established racial depictions for characters in the source material. The cast portrays these new characters without altering any prior canonical races.
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