Smoking-hot heroine. Clever paranormal premise. Painfully clueless conclusion.
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03/18/10
The Unborn (2009)
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Reviews Counted:108
Fresh:13
Rotten:95
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.
Theatrical Release:Jan 9, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $42,638,165
Synopsis: Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body... [More]
Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Idris Elba
Director: David Goyer
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Reviews for The Unborn
[An] exuberantly creepy mash-up of Jewish folklore, J-horror atmospherics, and demonic possession boilerplate.
01/05/10
Top CriticThe Unborn is packed full of grisly images and effects, but its apparent attempts to be some kind of Jewish take on The Exorcist fail miserably.
08/17/09
The best that can be said for Goyer's latest is that it's competent. How competent is a matter of debate, as is the degree to which Goyer is self-aware about the film's camp value. [Blu-ray]
08/12/09
What The Unborn represents manages to be a thousand times more disturbing than anything Goyer captured with his pen or camera
07/28/09
There is a senseless scare every 5-7 minutes. Now, after one or two you start to get the giggles but after the third or fourth false scare you begin to Laugh Out Loud.
07/15/09
...boasts few attributes designed to initially capture the viewer's interest...
07/04/09
The Unborn is like a scary movie sentence without the necessary linking verbs. It's all genre gears and no motivational motor.
07/01/09
The Unborn is a story that should have remained untold and will be forgotten by the end of the weekend.
06/10/09
'Tis the season of the Hollywood dumps -- which is too bad because I had harbored some small hope for this latest horror offering from David S. Goyer.
04/23/09
Full of cheap thrills that mostly consist of people popping up out of nowhere and dialogue comprised largely of theological gobbledygook.
03/13/09
Some of the ideas here may seem original, if questionable, but the treatment -- by writer-director David Goyer -- is strictly conventional, with the shock moments obviously inserted at regular intervals, usually while the heroine is in her underwear.
03/06/09
After a few initial decent scares, the corny dialogue, poor casting and cringe-worthy acting drag this movie into it’s own hell. Utter rubbish.
03/06/09
Cue a creepy toddler, various demonically possessed adults and a Jewish exorcism conducted by Gary Oldman. He’s a vastly better actor than the film deserves, but he can’t make the script seem even slightly better than it is.
03/06/09
This foolish film hitches an easy ride from the Holocaust.
03/06/09
The Unborn isn't the worst horror film you'll see in 2009, but the prospect of a sequel (which the film teases at the finale), is probably the biggest fright in the 88 minutes.
03/06/09
This may dabble in Jewish mysticism and the legacy of the Nazi era but scratch the surface and you discover just another standard scary movie.
03/03/09
Unsatisfying, hokey and never that scary (unless you’re the type who jumps at every loud noise or sudden appearance in this sort of movie), The Unborn outstays even its brief lifespan.
03/03/09
Packed with very scary moments and very disturbing images, this is not for the faint-hearted - that includes me.
03/03/09
The script tries hard to delve into the folklore of a dybbuk, and as it mixes this in with experiments on twins in concentration camps during WW2, the story becomes too convoluted for its own good.
02/27/09
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