Less spine-chilling and more eye-drooping.
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02/27/09
The Unborn (2009)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:12
Rotten:91
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.
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... [More]
Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Idris Elba
Director: David Goyer
Reviews for The Unborn
This supernatural horror is nonsense on toast.
02/27/09
Top CriticThe demonic possession plot thereafter breaks down in a tasteless swamp of Nazi experiments on twins, dogs with inverted heads and an exorcism led by rabbi Gary Oldman. Oy vey! The kosher paranormal: a trend in the offing?
02/27/09
Think of every scary-kid horror you’ve seen – this was how The Unborn was made.
02/27/09
The screenplay by Goyer himself, who wrote Blade and co-wrote The Dark Knight, this time doesn’t limber up.
02/27/09
Goyer's psychic dream sequences are pretty good - what a pity he decided to ruin them with a movie.
02/26/09
Well made, but ultimately underwhelming horror that never really comes to life, despite some creepy visuals and a handful of cheap shocks.
02/26/09
This orgy of crazed effects, cheap scares and jittery suspense never remotely frightens us
01/29/09
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08/19/09
Top CriticThe 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
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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
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
Despite some gruesome special effects, the telling of this story is so prosaic and predictable that genuine thrills are in very short supply.
02/27/09
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