Movie Review: The Unborn (2009)
Scary kids eh? That's a new one...
Photo: Rogue Pictures
Someone please tell me why demons, ghosts and movie ghoulies must open their mouths and screech? What is that? Is that like a beyond the world of the living thing I am just not up on or what? Anyway, with The Unborn you are in for 87 minutes of screeching demon kids, dogs with upside down heads and the fact that if it wasn't for the Nazis this entire film wouldn't exist. I tell yah, those Nazis inspired more films in the past 12 months than any other, and now they become original sources for current day ghost stories. Go figure.
The cast includes Odette Yustman, Meagan Good, Jane Alexander, Gary Oldman, Idris Elba, Rhys Coiro, Cam Gigandet, James Remar and Brian Boland. For more information on this film including pictures, trailers and a detailed synopsis choose from the following menu.
Review
"The Unborn" is a Rogue Pictures release, directed by David S. Goyer and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references.
The Unborn is nothing more than you would expect. Going into it you anticipate a second rate PG-13 thriller and while Goyer manages to push the gore to the edge it never really elevates itself out of the cellar of average. Oldman's role is minimal to the point it appears he did it as a favor for his Batman cohort and Elba's role is miniscule even compared to that as he shows up only in the final minutes. While Yustman parades around in her late night panties, sure to give the guys a rise, the character the ladies in the audience are meant to connect to comes via Meagan Good as a foul-mouthed, tell-it-like-it-is, occasional dabbler in the supernatural best friend as she doles out quick quips and f-bombs to freaky little kids for good measure.
There are a few scares as the audience I saw it with jumped more than a couple of times followed by the usual uncomfortable laughter as they cleaned the popcorn off themselves. The plot is a string of the usual occult theories and mysteries making it feel like material you have seen time and time again bringing up memories of The Skeleton Key and The Reaping. And like those movies, this one may leave only the most forgiving audience member satisfied as the majority will look past the mild scares and wonder why exactly they spent $11 on a movie they will feel as if they have seen before.
The Unborn isn't a travesty to be compared to cinema's worst as it scratches on the door of mediocrity and you won't hate yourself for watching this film. But I have a hard time believing anyone will come away anything more than mildly satisfied.
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This has got to be the worst movie I have ever seen. I'm not a big critic of movies but "The Unborn"… terrible. If I didn't have OCD and didn't feel I had to see the rest of the movie figuring it has to pick up sometime- I would have walked out. I wish I would have. I actually walked out of the movie pissed. Any idiot who likes this movie has no clue what a story plot is. If you were to edit this movie to scenes relevant to the scary movie plot it could be a great "Tales from the Crypt" episode. Alas it is an hour and a half of the worst scary movie to be created. People should be embarrassed that they had any part in this movie.
wat is that guy whos head turns upside doown… wat is his name?
i think that the creepy dudes name was Eli. All of my friends like screamed at that part. i was laughing… but only at that part. i usually don't get scared that easily but i was shaking because i was so freaked out. i loved this movie!
The worst movie i have ever watched… whack! Id rather watch my hairs on my private grow instead of watching this phonie shit… lmao.. waist of time
Why is his head upside down? I just saw an advert for it and and now im just confused… what has it got to with a dead baby?
Yeah right, this movie shouldn't even be that scary, it should only freak people out thats all, cause what it does is it shows some demon kid who is like possessed & freaks people out the wake he stalks the girl or something. I mean if it was based on a True Story, ok, other then that, it shouls freak people out, not scare them to death .
i think this movie was boring and could of been way better. me and my friends were that bored that we started talking over the movie about random stuff and almost got kicked out. the unborn is way to predictable thats what makes its soo shit.