The Unborn
Added 2/7/2010
While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon has a dreadful nightmare involving a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy over the phone. Casey is haunted by this boy, and when she goes to the ophthalmologist, he asks if she has a twin brother or sister. She asks her father and discovers that her mother lost a son that died in the womb. Casey suspects that she is haunted by the spirit of her brother. She finds a letter addressed to a woman called Sofi Kozma and a creepy picture at home that belonged to her mother. She goes with Romy to a retirement home to meet Sofi, a survivor of the experiments during the Holocaust. But Sofi tells Casey that she had never met her mother and later calls Casey to tell her she is in great danger. The Unborn certainly doesn't try to do anything different then what has already been done, and is worth watching. This movie is pretty predictable.
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Before watching the Unborn, I read the reviews here on amazon. Now usually I wait to read the reviews until the movie is over, but in this case the entire first PAGE shows nothing but opinions that the movie ranges from mediocre to downright terrible.
Well in my opinion, the Unborn is actually a fantastic horror movie that's honestly not as bad as I went in expecting judging by the reviews.
What makes the suspense work is the fact the movie actually *goes* somewhere. Sure, it's not the strongest storyline in the world, but then again, the same could be said for the Exorcist and that film is a classic.
All the acting is top-notch and believable, and the scares? Talk about tremendous! I haven't seen scares *this* believable in a long time.
This film is not quite just another Hollywood throwaway film. The Unborn does a really good job maintaining the spirit of the horror genre with lots of suspense appearing at the most surprising moments, and you know, just the fact some suspense APPEARS is leaps and bounds better than many other horror films out there that feel completely bland with no suspense anywhere.
My favorite part, without spoiling anything, is the scene showing an old lady at the retirement home, and while walking down the stairs in the middle of the night she sees a man crawling on the floor just behind the stairs.
When he starts climbing the stairs, his legs become twisted and he starts turning into a spider-like creature, while his head turns completely around like an owl. Alright, so describing this particular scene sounds funny, but when you witness the atmosphere leading up to this part, it takes on a whole new effective meaning of fear.
By the way, I know this scene was influenced by the part in the Exorcist showing the little girl crawling down the stairs.
Besides the Exorcist, the Unborn was obviously influenced by the Ring. Both films share a dark atmosphere which translates into a dark pictures (not *too* dark- just dreary enough to set the scene).
Both the Ring and the Unborn share another similarity- both films go with the mystery plot, and how the evil child that is tormenting the main character of the film appears and disappears at random.
The film shows this little boy quite often through the film, and what makes his appearances work is the fact he appears when you least expect it.
I don't know, I see a quality film here. I guess I look at the horror genre a bit differently than others.
I like atmosphere, lots of unusual events to take place that can't be explained with rational thinking, and a story that's easy enough to follow, all of which this movie has plenty of. I can't give in and agree with all the negativity.
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I guess Gary Oldman owed David Goyer a favor? Shame on you, David, for calling it in on this bore. They got the cover shot of the DVD case right, cos Odette Yustman's backside is the most watchable thing in this movie. Guess they were aware of that, too.
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It could have been good
Added 11/27/2009
They should have used one of these ideas or both: Dead brother coming "back" as a ghost to take revenge on his sister for accidently killing him by choking him with her umbilical cord (the brother feels like his sister killed him) or dead brother coming "back" as a ghost to live inside of his sister's son body. I expected one of these ideas.
It could've been good, but nah, they had to ruin it! They had to come up with stupid sub-plots and ideas (like the dogs and the whole reversed head thing)! I really don't get the people who make those movies... They're so good at ruining horror movies with retarded subplots and/or endings! Some recent American horror movies (including this one) start very well, but retarded sub-plots ruin them. How they can consider some of the sub-plots and twists that they come up with to be good or intelligent is something that I will never understand. Stick with the main idea instead of changing half way through for *beep* sake!
Not recommended unless you're not a horror fan and you like *beep* horror movies.
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the unborn dvd.
Added 11/23/2009
The film was pretty straight forward, and easy to follow. It did a fair job of explaining the phenomenon, and why it was occurring. It was also, a better film than Mirrors, which came out recently, and was also, a supernatural horror film.
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The Unborn
Added 2/7/2010
While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon has a dreadful nightmare involving a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy over the phone. Casey is haunted by this boy, and when she goes to the ophthalmologist, he asks if she has a twin brother or sister. She asks her father and discovers that her mother lost a son that died in the womb. Casey suspects that she is haunted by the spirit of her brother. She finds a letter addressed to a woman called Sofi Kozma and a creepy picture at home that belonged to her mother. She goes with Romy to a retirement home to meet Sofi, a survivor of the experiments during the Holocaust. But Sofi tells Casey that she had never met her mother and later calls Casey to tell her she is in great danger. The Unborn certainly doesn't try to do anything different then what has already been done, and is worth watching. This movie is pretty predictable.
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Before watching the Unborn, I read the reviews here on amazon. Now usually I wait to read the reviews until the movie is over, but in this case the entire first PAGE shows nothing but opinions that the movie ranges from mediocre to downright terrible.
Well in my opinion, the Unborn is actually a fantastic horror movie that's honestly not as bad as I went in expecting judging by the reviews.
What makes the suspense work is the fact the movie actually *goes* somewhere. Sure, it's not the strongest storyline in the world, but then again, the same could be said for the Exorcist and that film is a classic.
All the acting is top-notch and believable, and the scares? Talk about tremendous! I haven't seen scares *this* believable in a long time.
This film is not quite just another Hollywood throwaway film. The Unborn does a really good job maintaining the spirit of the horror genre with lots of suspense appearing at the most surprising moments, and you know, just the fact some suspense APPEARS is leaps and bounds better than many other horror films out there that feel completely bland with no suspense anywhere.
My favorite part, without spoiling anything, is the scene showing an old lady at the retirement home, and while walking down the stairs in the middle of the night she sees a man crawling on the floor just behind the stairs.
When he starts climbing the stairs, his legs become twisted and he starts turning into a spider-like creature, while his head turns completely around like an owl. Alright, so describing this particular scene sounds funny, but when you witness the atmosphere leading up to this part, it takes on a whole new effective meaning of fear.
By the way, I know this scene was influenced by the part in the Exorcist showing the little girl crawling down the stairs.
Besides the Exorcist, the Unborn was obviously influenced by the Ring. Both films share a dark atmosphere which translates into a dark pictures (not *too* dark- just dreary enough to set the scene).
Both the Ring and the Unborn share another similarity- both films go with the mystery plot, and how the evil child that is tormenting the main character of the film appears and disappears at random.
The film shows this little boy quite often through the film, and what makes his appearances work is the fact he appears when you least expect it.
I don't know, I see a quality film here. I guess I look at the horror genre a bit differently than others.
I like atmosphere, lots of unusual events to take place that can't be explained with rational thinking, and a story that's easy enough to follow, all of which this movie has plenty of. I can't give in and agree with all the negativity.
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I guess Gary Oldman owed David Goyer a favor? Shame on you, David, for calling it in on this bore. They got the cover shot of the DVD case right, cos Odette Yustman's backside is the most watchable thing in this movie. Guess they were aware of that, too.
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