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Critics Consensus: David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.
Critic Consensus: David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.
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[An] exuberantly creepy mash-up of Jewish folklore, J-horror atmospherics, and demonic possession boilerplate.
David S Goyer's non-kosher riff on 'The Exorcist' is stillborn,
Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one, but he does make sure you're never far away from a big 'Boo!'
Filmed in Chicago but universal in its lameness...The Unborn is the story of a dybbuk who makes trouble for the skinny North Shore college girl played by Odette Yustman, who's always out jogging when she should be considering a sandwich.
A laughably bad horror flick involving demonic possession, concentration camps and torturous genetic experiments.
This is where many a horror movie falls and never again rises: too much exposition.
I don't know why I even bothered to watch this.
I truly, truly recommend watching either of those instead of The Unborn. Or your wall. Just staring at your wall is also an acceptable alternative too.
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.
Unoriginal, unbelievable, utterly unwatchable.
Smoking-hot heroine. Clever paranormal premise. Painfully clueless conclusion.
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.
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.
Super Reviewer
It was really bad - scary in some scenes. But Cam Gigadet gave this a full star.
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.
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, Dexter). 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.
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