I had nightmares about the trailers, which is unfortunate, because of a lot of films' best scenes are contained there.
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01/09/09
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
Laughable horror flick made from an unstable solution of Jewish mysticism, Nazi evil and an otherworldly demon.
01/09/09
Top CriticWriter/director David S. Goyer, whose niche as a screenwriter is in adapting comic-book tales, gets a few frightening images into the frame, but they're all one-off shocks that do nothing to build tension.
01/09/09
The picture is such an embarrassment, Goyer has to be hoping that very few people will see it.
01/09/09
The entire premise of The Unborn seems based on "Boo! Gotcha" moments, which are initially quite effective but soon wear out their welcome.
01/09/09
Parental Content Review
01/09/09
A pretty young woman who looks especially fetching in her underwear is plagued by increasingly horrible dreams...at least, she thinks they're dreams until her whole life goes to hell. Some effective chills amidst the silliness.
01/09/09
Using the Holocaust as the basis for a horror movie is pretty distasteful, but what offended me the most about The Unborn is how sloppy it is.
01/09/09
Somewhere Sigmund Freud is trying to figure out how he can come back from the dead just so he can analyze The Unborn! ...Crazy fun.
01/09/09
Could have just as easily been called "The Un-scary," "The Uninspiring," "The Unoriginal," or "The Unexciting". Whatever you do, just un-plan to see it this weekend.
01/09/09
Any intelligence gets lost in an unsatisfying ending that doesn't justify the brain cells lost while getting there.
01/09/09
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.
01/09/09
Top Critic...comes across like a Jewish version of The Exorcist, mixed with a touch of Rosemary's Baby by way of The Omen.
01/09/09
Exactly what you'd expect from the combination of its release date, genre, and MPAA rating
01/08/09
After three feature films of discouraging quality, Goyer suits up in a beret and jodhpurs again for The Unborn, which holds the miserable distinction of being the most dreadful film he's fashioned to date.
01/08/09
The Unborn is a mishmash of half-formed ideas more asinine and exploitative than frightening. At least the title is accurate; this junk is stillborn all the way.
01/08/09
Shouldn't have been brought to term.
01/08/09
Even once the "scary" monsters start ramping up their appearances the film is still dead and Goyer's direction feels more like a trippy music video for some Eastern European techno band than anything out of a horror film.
01/08/09
has the psychological weight and perversity of a mildly racy episode of Touched by an Angel
01/08/09
If the films released during the traditional January dumping ground are going to be this bad, we should employ the nation's best scientists to rearrange Earth's orbit so the year begins in February.
01/08/09
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