Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

lewiskendell The Unborn is one of those horror movies that came and went with little fanfare, but is still worth a viewing today if you never caught it the first time around back in 2009.Our star, here, is Odette Yustman, who I can never see without mentioning that she looks a lot like Jessica Alba. This comparison is fitting, because the tone of The Unborn is similar to that of Alba's 2008 horror flick, The Eye. She seems to share Jessica's spotty acting skills as well, because at some points during the movie she was just not convincing. Does that ruin the movie? No. Gorgeous looks truly can make up for a few acting blips.As for the movie itself, it starts of with a very frightening sequence. It's a little weird that most of the more frightening sequences are near the beginning. The Unborn excels at disturbing images, and I wish that it would have relied more on those types of scares than the silly jump moments and loud noises that are the rule in most modern horror movies. There is a bit of a mystery for the heroine to unravel in the movie, but this brings about another unfortunate similarity to The Eye. Once she really gets into the particulars of the plot, things start to seem a little silly. That's my main quibble with The Unborn. It tries hard to provide a background and explanation for the events that happen, but it only serves to make it harder to take the movie seriously. The Unborn is ahead of the curve compared to a lot of the horror movies that came out in 2009. Some parts of it manage to be somewhat scary, and that's enough to forgive its faults in my opinion.

begob The premise of this is good. The production looks expensive. But it's an overloaded mess that feels far longer than 88 mins.The opening sequence has a creepy image of a bulldog wearing a mask. It was just a dream! So we're straight into Freudian dream analysis. The dream sequences come thick and fast, and it's becoming a chick horror. Theoretical physics raises its head, then a Dan Brownish kaballa text, then the ultimate Jewish horror of a dark secret in the Holocaust.At this stage it's really piling up, but the only menace comes from images in the mirror and a creaky house at night. Oh wait - they convert to literal with the random demon now actually killing people.This requires a lot of exposition, and then unbelievably at about 65 mins there are five pages of dialogue explaining the exorcism. Suddenly there are new characters all over the place, while other characters have long been ditched.And an overblown and cheesy final conflict.The lead actress is a babe, but she's not convincing in close up.

Scott LeBrun Writer / director David S. Goyers' "The Unborn" may work as passable entertainment for those genre fans who never expect too much from their movies. It does come up with a somewhat different gimmick, drawing from Jewish mysticism and even working the Holocaust into its story. But for the most part, it's the same old thing, done the same old way, with a plethora of digital effects and supposedly creepy imagery.It's your tried and true story of a tormented lead character repeatedly experiencing all kinds of disturbing visions. In this case, that character is young woman Casey Beldon (Odette Annable), who comes to fear that a malevolent spirit known as a dybbuk is out to get her. She first seeks assistance from a nursing home resident named Sofi Kozma (Jane Alexander), and then a rabbi named Joseph Sendak (Gary Oldman). Eventually Sendak attempts an exorcism, leading to the usual mayhem.The efforts of an extremely sincere cast raise this to average level; otherwise, this would be substantially boring if not incompetently made. It definitely looks great, with great wintry atmosphere and moody lighting courtesy of James Hawkinson. Oldman and Alexander are standouts; also in the cast are Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, a rock solid Idris Elba, Atticus Shaffer as the requisite creepy kid, Carla Gugino, Rhys Coiro, and James Remar and C.S. Lee from the TV series 'Dexter'.Given how straight faced cast and crew are with the material, it has to be assumed that any laughter on the part of the viewer is of the unintentional variety. Overall the movie is pretty silly at times, but that does keep it amusing.Five out of 10.

DustinRahksi I thought I recognized Odette's voice, she plays Amata in Fallout 3, some useless information for you. Well this movie sucked so hard in the first ten minutes I had to get a pen and paper to right down all the flaws. The movie opens really fast, you get no character development, no sense of whats going on, they just through you in a dream sequence and let you figure it out for your self. I'll have you know that Odette gets naked, then has a shower, and then has sex in the first 15 minutes, wow this is some serious trash. You could tell it wanted to be rated R, but they couldn't get their way, so they make it a hard pg-13. I felt there should have been more time put into establishing the scenario, rather than cutting all the BS. The characters suck, except Gary Oldman and Idris alba. The dialogue between the characters is pretty bad, and the acting from Odette is garbage. She should stick with voice acting, she can't carry a role by getting naked the whole time. Odettes friend is a complete moron, there is about a dozen things going on about the supernatural being, and she is like it's just a coincidence. The only time I jumped in this film was the stupid train jump scene, you know your movie sucks when you have to scare people with a train. There was one suspenseful scene in the old folks home with the guys head snapping around and then he is crawling around, but they copied that right out of In the mouth of madness by John Carpenter. The best part of this film was Gary Oldman, even though he doesn't have many scenes. Idris alba entered just as fast as he left, what a waste. And the film ends even quicker than it began, leaving you with a bad taste. This film sits at a 4.6 for a reason, it's a mess and I do not recommend it.