The Unborn (2009)

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• Nicki M

  
  Yep, this one is pretty much a mess. I caught it on TV, so as I didn't pay any money to see it, I am probably inclined to be a little more generous than it deserves. A plot you could see coming a mile off. I mean, seriously, if you had a creepy ass kid telling you some devil… More
  Yep, this one is pretty much a mess. I caught it on TV, so as I didn't pay any money to see it, I am probably inclined to be a little more generous than it deserves. A plot you could see coming a mile off. I mean, seriously, if you had a creepy ass kid telling you some devil child wants "to be born now", and multiple other scary going ons, you would think at very least you would abstain from sex with your boyfriend! Apparently not... There is a few scares and some yucky scenes, but it is pretty lame and tame stuff. Also, I don't know if it was the TV transmission or what, but the end scene seemed sped up, which made me feel like I was watching a video game instead of a movie! If you just want some dumb entertainment or a laugh, this is okay, but there is definitely much better horror films out there.

• Bethany M

  
  It was really bad - scary in some scenes. But Cam Gigadet gave this a full star.

• Jeff "

  
  The Unborn has gotten a bad reputation in the Horror community. The film a decent entry in the Horror genre, but is definitely not the best. The film has some pretty good scares and the plot has enough decent elements to make this an average horror film. The film could have been a… More
  The Unborn has gotten a bad reputation in the Horror community. The film a decent entry in the Horror genre, but is definitely not the best. The film has some pretty good scares and the plot has enough decent elements to make this an average horror film. The film could have been a lot better, but taking inton account that this is a PG-13 film, this is fairly good entertainment. The Unborn is not a perfect film of course, but it's good enough compared to all those lame remakes that are coming out. This may not be too original, but the jolts are plentiful, and your most likely going to jump out of your seat a few times. Obviously one of the reasons that the film got such a bad rep is because of the fact that Michael Bay produced it. Even if he did, this one of the better horror films that he produced. The Unborn is good/ average entertainment, and is a type of horror film that shouldn't be dismissed too quickly. The biggest problem I had with the film is that I felt it rehashed a few old ideas explored in other horror films before it, and that some of the characters were not likeable. But it delivers a few good scares, and it deserves a little better praise than it originally had. Considering all the crap remakes, The Unborn isn't that bad. I found the film quite entertaining, even though not too good or original.

• Mike S

  
  Clichéd, but not bad altogether. I thought the gorgeous Megan Fox was starring in this, but as it turned out it was just a look-a-like by the name of Odette Yustman. And while she's a rather bland actress, at least the cast had some good actors like Gary Oldman, James Remar and… More
  Clichéd, but not bad altogether. I thought the gorgeous Megan Fox was starring in this, but as it turned out it was just a look-a-like by the name of Odette Yustman. And while she's a rather bland actress, at least the cast had some good actors like Gary Oldman, James Remar and C.S. Lee (the two latter which I'm familiar with through one of my favourite TV shows, <i>Dexter</i>). Pretty interesting plot as well, with an abundance of scenes that will have you jumping out of your seat. Some of its fright elements are quite bizarre, which occationally made it a little creepier than your average horror movie. There's just something about a dog wearing a human mask with no eyes that really disturbs my inner peace.

• Conner R

  
  Aside from Odette Yustman looking like an identical twin to Megan Fox, there's really nothing interesting about this at all. It's like a Jewish version of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby combined, only it's nothing close to either in terms of film making, acting,… More
  Aside from Odette Yustman looking like an identical twin to Megan Fox, there's really nothing interesting about this at all. It's like a Jewish version of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby combined, only it's nothing close to either in terms of film making, acting, or writing. The characters act in ridiculous fashions, the plot makes no sense and the ending is complete blasphemy. David S. Goyer either hits a home run or creates a bomb, this is definitely a bomb.

• Morgan S

  
  Well I was actually in the mood to see a crapy horror movie and I actually enjoyed this! Terrible movie but fun to watch (if you were in the mood as I happened to be)

• Alexis N

  
  I'm giving it one star because I was able to make fun of it through the entire thing. It was awful. Completely predictable and not the least bit scary, startle-y, creepy or gross. It's the story of an evil demon named Jumby (not Jambi from Pee Wee's Playhouse)… More
  I'm giving it one star because I was able to make fun of it through the entire thing. It was awful. Completely predictable and not the least bit scary, startle-y, creepy or gross. It's the story of an evil demon named Jumby (not Jambi from Pee Wee's Playhouse) harassing a poor girl who's dad goes out of town at just the right time. This demon has no motive, but he must be exorcised by Gary Oldman (I don't know why he agreed to be in this filth)! Laaaaaame!

• Richard C

  
  theres only one good thing about this movie which is we get to see the lead actress in her underwear in a couple scenes. the movie is boring. there are a few decent scenes but not many. C-

• Arash X

  
  Almost works as a comedy, The script is hilariously dumb, The main character & her stupid friend are annoying as hell, The actresses(!!??) who play them give terrible perfs and the climax is as shitty as other parts of the film, The only scary thing about The Unborn is seeing… More
  Almost works as a comedy, The script is hilariously dumb, The main character & her stupid friend are annoying as hell, The actresses(!!??) who play them give terrible perfs and the climax is as shitty as other parts of the film, The only scary thing about The Unborn is seeing Oldman in it

• MisterYoda ?

  
  While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) has a dreadful nightmare with a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy (Meagan Gold) by phone. The boy unexpectedly hits her face with a mirror, and one iris changes the color. Along… More
  While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) has a dreadful nightmare with a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy (Meagan Gold) by phone. The boy unexpectedly hits her face with a mirror, and one iris changes the color. Along the days, Casey is haunted by a fiend of a boy, and when she goes to the ophthalmologist, he asks if she has a twin brother or sister. She asks her father and discovers that her mother lost a son that died in the womb. Casey suspects that she is haunted by the spirit of her brother and finds a letter addressed to a woman called Sofi Kozma (Jane Alexander) and a creepy picture at home that belonged to her mother. She goes with Romy to a retirement home to meet Sofi, who survived to experiments in the Holocaust. Sofi tells that she had never met Casey's mother, but later she calls Casey and tells that she is her grandmother and Casey is in danger. Further, she explains that the fiend dybbuk is after her trying to be born again and stay in the world of the living. Casey questions why the evil spirit has appeared after so many years and seeks out Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman) to perform a Jewish exorcism on her to get rid of the dybbuk. "The Unborn" is an underrated horror movie that has flaws and clichés, but also startles with scary scenes. The plot is a compilation of many horrors movie like "The Omen", or "The Exorcist" or many Asian horror movies and gave me the sensation that I had already seen "The Unborn". When Romy is murdered, the viewer does not hear the statement of Casey and her boyfriend to the police officer, and I believe it would be very difficult to explain what happened with the stabbed young woman and broken window. How to explain the several deaths during the exorcism? But the special effects and the conclusion are good. Despite of the flaws, I liked this movie. My vote is seven.

• Emily A

  
  Oh my god. This movie is what's wrong with contemporary horror cinema. It might as well have been called "David Goyer Cashes A Cheque". Oh no! Bad things are happening to this charming young woman who can't act! Whatever shall she do? What a mess. With competant… More
  Oh my god. This movie is what's wrong with contemporary horror cinema. It might as well have been called "David Goyer Cashes A Cheque". Oh no! Bad things are happening to this charming young woman who can't act! Whatever shall she do? What a mess. With competant people, this film might have been salvaged. The story moves so clumsily that you can actually see all the little cogs and wheels that are moving Odette Yustman unknowingly towards all the scary shit that she will inevitably encounter. It's all here: the scary evil child, the scary evil symbolism, the inexplicable connection to the holocaust, bugs, haunted hospitals, the craggy old intellectual who's "retired from this game, man." In essence, it's a collection of effective horror tropes and conventions all artfully essembled into something nowhere near unfamiliar. If this film had been made 35 years ago, before all of this had become cliche and boring, this movie would be ground-breaking. But it wasn't and it's not. I wish someone would explain to David Goyer that it's not enough to be familiar with all the classic signatures of horror and to be able to skillfully reproduce them all onscreen. You have to understand and do something NEW with them: mix them up, confound them, parody them, play with them or in some other way make them interesting to a horror audience that has seen it all before. And really, no one who was planning on seeing this movie isn't one of those horror fans.

• First L

  
  Being a fan of the horror film genre, it really doesn't take alot to please me. I like humorous, thrill-ride type stuff (The Evil Dead, Zombieland), I like gross, sadistic slasher films (House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), I like supernatural thrillers (The… More
  Being a fan of the horror film genre, it really doesn't take alot to please me. I like humorous, thrill-ride type stuff (The Evil Dead, Zombieland), I like gross, sadistic slasher films (House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), I like supernatural thrillers (The Exorcist, the Ring), or even films that can just show me visuals I've never seen before (John Carpenter's "The Thing", in it's time). My special fondness for horror films allows me to be extra lenient when it comes to the bad ones (of which I've seen plenty). This also means I have very little patience for those films that don't even try to please their audience. Films created from a by-the-numbers laundry list of horror cliches that have been so well-worn they no longer carry any capacity to frighten even the smallest child. Films like "The Unborn". The lead character is an extremely attractive girl named Casey. Casey babysits for a family with a weird kid, but he's not as weird as her unborn brother who is also her uncle but also a demon. It wants to be re-born into this world (but what's up with the wacky kid she was babysitting? It seems like it was already re-born into this world through him). Also, jews and nazis. And exorcisms. And also the demon haunts her nitemares. Add to this some creepy bugs and a black friend, and Gary Oldman as a rabbi with a bizarrely indiscernible accent (really, it has to be heard to be believed) and you have it: a sloppy, dull, confusing mess. It doesn't help that the lead actress and her boyfriend are just absolutely horrible in their roles. Really, The Unborn would be laughably bad if it weren't so tediously dull. As it is, it's difficult to sit through all the way til the end. I don't think anyone's time is so worthless they should waste it watching this movie.

• Dean !

  
  A pretty good horror taking into account the PG13 rating? It was better than I expected and is in the same vein as the Ring. It has a few jumpy moments and some of the imagery is pretty creepy. Good effects and well made I just felt the ending seemed a little rushed and wasn't… More
  A pretty good horror taking into account the PG13 rating? It was better than I expected and is in the same vein as the Ring. It has a few jumpy moments and some of the imagery is pretty creepy. Good effects and well made I just felt the ending seemed a little rushed and wasn't great. Pity as the build up was quite good.

• Dead A

  
  This was scary. Liked it a bit.

• Justin Y

  
  David S. Goyer has been involved with some splendid movies, but <i>The Unborn</i> is not one of them.<p>Despite its short run time of less than 90 minutes, <i>The Unborn</i> feels like it takes much longer to conclude. The first half of the film is quite… More
  David S. Goyer has been involved with some splendid movies, but <i>The Unborn</i> is not one of them.<p>Despite its short run time of less than 90 minutes, <i>The Unborn</i> feels like it takes much longer to conclude. The first half of the film is quite tedious. The freak elements do show up right from the get go, but for the most part, stuff is just happening. There is not enough development at this point. The second half does pick up, as the story, which does have some meat to it, becomes clear.</p><p>The suspense factor isn't that great, despite the creepiness of the supernatural, and the scares are close to none. Even the violence is on the safe side. This truly is a <b>PG-13</b> movie.</p><p>Odette Yustman is a pretty face and she does find the time to walk around in her panties a bit. Thank you Goyer. Her acting isn't terrible, but her line delivery does need some work. Gary Oldman does a good job, even though it does take his character a while to make an appearance.</p><p>In short, <i>The Unborn</i> is not scary or interesting enough to be a worth while watch. Choose another film from this genre instead.</p>

• Megan S

  
  I watched this movie a few weeks ago and I honestly don't remember a thing about it.

• Nate Z

  
  Writer/director David S. Goyer’s horror movie wants to be all things to all people, and thus comes across as both conventional and sloppy. The story is about some evil presence that predates religion (all religion?), but somehow this is tied together with Nazi experiments on twins and… More
  Writer/director David S. Goyer’s horror movie wants to be all things to all people, and thus comes across as both conventional and sloppy. The story is about some evil presence that predates religion (all religion?), but somehow this is tied together with Nazi experiments on twins and a spooky kid that pops out. Most of the scares are cheap and silly, often giving way to vivid hallucinations that break when another character enters the room. Really, what is Holocaust material doing in such a by-the-book spook flick? It’s like a Jewish version of The Omen. The story manages to be hokey and too convoluted at the same time. Gee, for a movie that has the word “born” in the title and features a character getting sick weeks after sex, I wonder what the awesome twist ending will be? The movie is tedious from start to finish, though technically competent aside from the acting. It is unfathomable to me that Gary Oldman is a supporting actor in this tripe. It seems like the real purpose of this movie was to engineer gratuitous shots of Odette Yustman (Cloverfield) in her teeny, tiny cotton panties. In fact, I think there’s one review that only talks about her rear and its appeal, which is naturally why it is prominently displayed in the movie poster. When the malevolent spirit is going by its in utero nickname, “Jumby,” it loses some serious scare factor. See this as a companion piece to the Oscar-winning drama, The Reader. Then tell me which has the stranger message. Nate's Grade: C

• Nani V

  
  I wanted to kill myself while watching this movie!! I made many attempts to finish it, but couldn't and returned it. I found it really pointless and boring; although they tried really hard to make it scary, it didn't do it for me.

• Alexander W

  
  Nothing new, its alright to when doing something else, perhaps to watch in the background, nothing really scary or too horrible going on, perhaps good for a lot of young children for friday night.

• Summer W

  
  It wasn't horrible, but it was nothing new; same old tricks, different movie. Bonus points for good acting and an odd but pleasant appearance from Gary Oldman.

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