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The Unborn (2009)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:2

Rotten:8

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.

Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references.

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:27-02-2009

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... 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 to inhabit.

And sometimes it actually succeeds.

Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.

Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.

With Sendak's help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany--a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born. --© Rogue Pictures [More]

Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Idris Elba

Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Idris Elba, Cam Gigandet, James Remar, Jane Alexander

Director: David Goyer

Director: David Goyer
Screenwriter: David Goyer
Producer: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
Composer: Ramin Djawadi
Studio: Rogue Arts

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Despite some massive flaws and a disappointing over-reliance on jump scares, The Unborn is comfortably the best entry yet from Platinum Dunes, Michael Bay’s previously remake-happy horror production outfit.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/27/09
Tom Ambrose
Tom Ambrose
Empire Magazine
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David S Goyer’s non-kosher riff on ‘The Exorcist’ is stillborn,

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02/27/09
Nigel Floyd
Nigel Floyd
Time Out
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Brazen in its borrowings and alternating between cynicism and silliness, this is a creatively barren effort that should have been stopped at conception.

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02/27/09
Matt Glasby
Matt Glasby
Channel 4 Film
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It’s hard to imagine a more ham-fisted attempt at the genre of ‘womb horror’ than this flat-footed supernatural drama with a Jewish twist.

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02/27/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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A scary movie so fantastically stupid and crass it made my skull contract and my sinuses harden to the consistency of pipe-cleaners.

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02/27/09
Peter Bradshaw
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02/27/09
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Before long, the connective tissue between scares starts to call attention to its own preposterousness.

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01/09/09
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge
Variety
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About the only thing here that will haunt your dreams is the film's final scene, which conveniently portends a sequel.

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01/09/09
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Times
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Laughable horror flick made from an unstable solution of Jewish mysticism, Nazi evil and an otherworldly demon.

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01/09/09
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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The film teeters so perilously and routinely at the edge of camp, both with some of its casting choices and some unfortunate dialogue...that it's hard to know if Mr. Goyer wants to make us howl with fear or laughter.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/09/09
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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