The Unborn Reviews

I kept hoping Oldman would revert to his Sid & Nancy punk persona and kick the little freak in the yarbles like some pain-deserving Springsteen fan, but no such luck.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5

Unoriginal, unbelievable, utterly unwatchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Smoking-hot heroine. Clever paranormal premise. Painfully clueless conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0/4.0

[An] exuberantly creepy mash-up of Jewish folklore, J-horror atmospherics, and demonic possession boilerplate.

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The 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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]

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Should have been aborted.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

What The Unborn represents manages to be a thousand times more disturbing than anything Goyer captured with his pen or camera

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

...boasts few attributes designed to initially capture the viewer's interest...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The Unborn is like a scary movie sentence without the necessary linking verbs. It's all genre gears and no motivational motor.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The Unborn is a story that should have remained untold and will be forgotten by the end of the weekend.

Full Review | Original Score: D

'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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Full of cheap thrills that mostly consist of people popping up out of nowhere and dialogue comprised largely of theological gobbledygook.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

This foolish film hitches an easy ride from the Holocaust.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5