Godly is a 2012 American supernatural thriller horror film written by Ryne Douglas Pearson & Juliet Snowden and directed by Saman Keshavarz marking his directorial debut.
The film stars Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Ewan McGregor, Carey Mulligan, Chace Crawford, Dave Franco, Isabel Lucas and Nathalie Kelley.
The film is distributed by Paramount Pictures and concerns three young adults and six teenage youths who become stuck atop a rock formation during a set of raging rainstorms and find themselves being prayed upon by some of Greek Mythology's most infamous gods.
The film was released theatrically in cinemas on May 14th, 2012 and was released on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc on October 16th, 2012.
Plot
Lionel Everett (Jeremy Renner) is a debunker who drags along his bestfriend Campbell Stans (Ewan McGregor) on a trip to Greece to a recently discovered rock cliff formation rumoured to be cursed.
We are then introduced to a group of American College Youths Constance Fairchen (Carey Mulligan) her brother Thomas (Chace Crawford) and his girlfriend Sarah Fitzgerald (Isabel Lucas), Constance's bestfriend Alex Tomeras (Nathalie Kelley) and her boyfriend Johnson Whelan (Dave Franco) who are set for a Summer trip to Greece.
Tagging along with them is Alex's extremely overprotective, dissaproving sister Andrea (Kerry Washington) who had been left to raise Alex after their parents perished many years ago in a fire.
Lionel and Campbell meet with the American College youths and Andrea Tomeras in Athens and from there head off to a long forgotten forest village tourist trap Manos where they come to a local bar called Zeus' Bolt.
They meet a less then welcoming young female bartender Maria (Cobie Smulders) and a bunch of strange locals who learn of the location they desire to go.
They find a lift there with one particular local who drives them halfway there and leaves them to hike with there gear till they reach the rock cliff.
He prays for them as they depart and also attempts to suade them into not going claiming like the other locals it's cursed.
The large group of individuals then scale the rock cliff with their climbing gear and reach the top where they prepare to set up camp.
They pitch tents and the very first night atop the cliff lose all their climbing gear and tools which offer a way back down via a nasty windstorm.
Strange noises then occur all through the night and after the group is done arguing they discover the noises to be emanating from inside the rocky mountain top.
It eventually rips open and Johnson, Sarah, Campbell and Alex fall down inside a chasm.
Inside the chasm they discover ancient engraved wall images depicting the Greek Gods and humans standing before them undergoing horrible transformations.
Horrible whispers and noises are then heard and Sarah in a panic screams out for them to quickly come down and get them.
A strong gust of wind then travels through the chasm chamber and Johnson finds himself compelled to further explore the chamber.
Campbell and Alex follow on after him whilest Sarah remains in the same spot still calling out for them hurry up and get them out, whilest reporting the others have gone further into the chamber.
Sarah hears crackling noises and turns around seeing on the wall she was perched on engraved images of the Greek Monster Medusa and hordes of snakes coming down upon victims as well as victims having snakes come out of their bodies.
Sarah begins to panic and scream out again as the wall begins to crackle and open up.
As it opens snakes pour out in piles and come at her.
She backs away in a hurry from the wall but a couple of snakes fall from an up above wall onto her shoulder and one snake bites the back of her neck.
She screams out and Alex and Campbell hear her screaming and leave the tranced walking forward Johnson to go to Sarah's rescue.
Up above Lionel, Constance, Andrea and Thomas rush around assemblimng a long rope for one to go down and reclaim them.
Andrea decides she will be the one as her sister has fallen down there.
We then see a shocked and disorientated Sarah fall to the ground gasping in pain as Campbell and Alex coming running to her.
Andrea begins to come down with the ropes and calls out to them, Alex responds and Campbell calls out saying Sarah's been bitten by some sort of snake.
We then Johnson as he comes to a certain chamber with two walls full of engraved images of the Greek Monster the Chimera and it's fire and wind breaths.
A strong gust of wind then overtakes Johnson as a large wind outline of a skul appears and shoots forward as Johnson engulfing him.
We then see Alex hold up Sarah and attach onto the rope with Andrea as Andrea drops the second rope for Johnson and Campbell.
Campbell runs to get Johnson upon Andrea asking where he is.
He finds him upon the ground unconsious in the small chamber and limps him to the rope.
The five then return to the surface but halfway there Alex and Andrea are hit by a strange red smoke.
The smoke is later revealed as being the influence of war from the Greek God of War Ares.
The five then begin to descend into mandess by succumbing to the things that overtook them down in the chasm.
They discover the cursed rock cliff they find themselves stuck upon is indeed an original part of Mount Olympus which broke apart from it and fell it to the heavens after a legendary battle between all the Gods and Monsters took place a thousand years ago.
The night following Campbell is revealed as being hit by the influence of the Chimera and turns on the group who have not been reduced to staying a tent to be monitored.
Campbell attacks and is advanced by infected Johnson who after an intense battle, knocks him off the cliff supposedly to his death.
Johnson turns around to face the group and his face begins to form cracks of fiery red and his eyes become a frightening yellow.
He tells the group to chain him down.
They use the shackles from Sarah's backpack to lock down her tent to lock him down.
The following day however Alex releases him instructing he will be released on the condition he kills her sister.
Upon being released however he attacks her violently and is inadvertenly killed by Andrea who shoots him to death.
His body flies off the cliff and unshown to the characters but shown to us his body is absorbed into the rock cliff.
Andrea realizes her sister was out to get her and the group as her shackled down.
She however is aware that her boyfriend is dead and begins to grieve over his death.
Sarah meanwhile tells the others that the poison in her is seeping through her body and she wants it out.
Lionel, Constance, Thomas and Andrea then proceed to cut a deep hole in Sarah's chest and Andrea sucks the venom out.
As she goes to spit the venom out some trickles back down and she accidentally swallows it.
However her face morphs revealing she has already been infected by the same thing as her sister Alex which shocks Lionel and Constance.
Lionel then talks with Constance and tells there is no way that they can all make it off the cliff, especially due to the fact they lost nearly all their critical climbing gear and Andrea and Alex being infected and Sarah's condition.
He states he will buy them time and her and her brother will climb down the cliff together as low they can before they can jump to the ground.
He kisses her on the cheek as Thomas watches over Sarah with Andrea.
Andrea enquires to Thomas as to what they are talking about.
Sarah then springs up and states isn't it obvious that they are going to desert the infected and the clean ones get to get off the god forsaken rock.
Thomas tells Sarah they would never do that, that they're all going to get out of this together.
She pushes him off and tells him to go over and ask his sister.
Thomas comes over to Lionel and Constance and asks wether they are planning on abandoning the infected on top of the rock.
Constance tries to explain to Thomas but their argument carries over and Andrea overhears and then states to herself she's not going to be left here and neither is her baby sis before she goes into her tent and unchains Alex.
Alex tells her to leave her but Alex sees her face morph and she embraces her in a hug before biting into her throat.
Alex then drops her sister Andrea upon the ground inside the tent and heads out to the group walking straight and with determination.
Lionel sees this and seizes Andrea gun and begins to fire at her.
Andrea springs to her feet with her gushing wound and jumps in front of Alex taking several bullets hinto the chest.
One rips through her shoulder however and lands directly in the left side of Alex's temple.
Sarah begins to scream as Thomas embraces her in a hug and a shocked Lionel and Constance stare onward at what has happened.
A dying Andrea and Alex extend their hands out to each other and die together.
The rock ground they lay upon then absorbs their bodies before the eyes of Lionel, Constance, Thomas and Sarah.