Friday
09Jan
Movie Review - 'The Unborn'
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 12:25AM | The Unborn
Starring Odette Yustman, Meagan Good, and Gary Oldman  |
Hitting all the usual buttons for a modern PG-13 horror flick, The Unborn never gets your heart racing and never challenges your mind. The scares are predictable - Don't look in the mirror! Don't think everything's OK in that maintenance closet! - and the story is a real drag.
The basics (and that's all there really are here) involve a pretty college student named Casey (Odette Yustman) who has recently been haunted by a very strange dream. There's a boy with piercing blue eyes, a fetus in a jar, a bulldog wearing a mask. What does it mean? What does it mean? She consults her friend Romy (Meagan Good), who has a book on dream interpretation, so that's nice. But while she's babysitting for neighbors one night, Casey is attacked by the four-year-old son, who declares, "Jumby wants to be born now."
Is it all connected?
This is not the typical demon baby stuff, this is unborn demon baby stuff, as we soon learn that Casey's twin brother died in utero. That's about as far as I'm will to go with The Unborn, and it should be enough for writer-director David S. Goyer. But he's not content, and adds a heaping help of evil by invoking...the Nazis! It's a real stretch, one that loses all elasticity when Goyer reaches back to the Kaballah and some arcane Hebrew mythology.
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