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Ok I was seriously excited to see this movie! I couldn't wait to see it. I was mad I didn't get to see it in theater. However, I am now glad I didn't waste my money. I was most definitely let down. I was actually MAD that I didn't like ti because I was looking forward to this movie.

The horror genre is famous for having a lot of bad movies. That's a given, but The Unborn brings horror new lows in in sucktitude.

Being a fan of the horror film genre, it really doesn't take alot to please me. I like humorous, thrill-ride type stuff (The Evil Dead, Zombieland), I like gross, sadistic slasher films (House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), I like supernatural thrillers (The Exorcist, the Ring), or even films that can just show me visuals I've never seen before (John Carpenter's "The Thing", in it's time). My special fondness for horror films allows me to be extra lenient when it comes to the bad ones (of which I've seen plenty). This also means I have very little patience for those films that don't even try to please their audience. Films created from a by-the-numbers laundry list of horror cliches that have been so well-worn they no longer carry any capacity to frighten even the smallest child. Films like "The Unborn". The lead character is an extremely attractive girl named Casey. Casey babysits for a family with a weird kid, but he's not as weird as her unborn brother who is also her uncle but also a demon. It wants to be re-born into this world (but what's up with the wacky kid she was babysitting? It seems like it was already re-born into this world through him). Also, jews and nazis. And exorcisms. And also the demon haunts her nitemares. Add to this some creepy bugs and a black friend, and Gary Oldman as a rabbi with a bizarrely indiscernible accent (really, it has to be heard to be believed) and you have it: a sloppy, dull, confusing mess. It doesn't help that the lead actress and her boyfriend are just absolutely horrible in their roles. Really, The Unborn would be laughably bad if it weren't so tediously dull. As it is, it's difficult to sit through all the way til the end. I don't think anyone's time is so worthless they should waste it watching this movie.

THis movie did not do that good , it had( some ) scary parts.The Univited was better

This is the Jewish Exorcist written for PG13. This movie starts well but goes downhill fast. Someone loses a glove and the heroine's eyes start changing colour. At this point I'm hiding behind the sofa (laughing). A few bad dreams and the usual bathroom cabinet with the mirror trick doesn't make a horror movie. There's a really old lady wearing a Kabbalah Bracelet (I think it could have been Madonna) being chased around a retirement home in the dark. And for a really good laugh a rabbi, a priest and a man with a video camera all stand in front of a wind machine making fools of themselves.

I think for all concerned it would be wise to leave The Unborn undisturbed gathering dust in the shop.

From writer / director David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity, Film) comes to you, the Unborn. A tale of Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman - Cloverfield, Film) who plays Young girl haunted by an entity and haunted by dreadful nightmares.

The Unborn seems to be your Typical American Horror, Young attractive girl been haunted by someone, runs around screaming, gets help and then all is well. Well, although it does follow a similar trail this one actually has a decent story.

Casey Beldon begins to have visions of a young boy who appears to her at first in her dreams and becomes a part of her real life, she eventually confides in her best friend Romy (Meagan Good

This is my 115th review. You want a great horror movie? Watch something else, because this is one of the worst horror movies ever made.

Wow. I mean wow. This movie, is awful. It's as boring, as predictable, and as uniteresting as horror gets! This is a movie so bad, I'm gonna review it a little differently. Here's the top 5 things wrong with this movie.

5. It steals horror cliche you know. The kid that haunts the girl? He looks like the kid from "The Grudge". A cripple that gets possesed? He does the spider walk from "The Exorcist".

4. It wastes Gary Oldman. I mean, he's been in terrible movies before, but at least in something as awful as "Lost in Space", he got plenty of screen time. Here, he does very little.

3. It's a measly 87 minutes, yet feels too long. I mean, at first I thought it was moving too fast, but then it took so much time to explain stuff I didn't need to know. Note to all future film makers, if you make a horror or sci-fi movie, explain VERY little, if anything. I don't need a reasonable explanation for my frights.

2. It's not scary!! The spooks can be seen a mile away, and like I said before, they're all borrowed. Usually this is the worst thing a horror can do, but number one changes that...

1. It expects us to take the movie seriously after we hear the most ridicilous line ever put on film since "I was FROZEN today". The line is...

"Jumby wants to be born now."

Allow me to repeat myself.

"Jumby wants to be born now."

Where do I begin?!!?! Here's the top 5 things wrong with that line.

5. What, is the movie monster a baby? If he's not born yet, then he's younger than a baby!!

4. It's never explained how he's gonna get born, despite the fact they explain the hell out of everything else. All we know, is that Jumby is gonna come out of the mirror, not a womb.

3. Some kid says this line with as little energy as possible. Some would argue that it's creepy that way, but it's not.

2. Nobody thinks anything of the line until strange things start happening. If some snot told me "Jumby wants to be born now", I'd wonder what the hell it meant!!

And the worst thing about that line, and the movie in general...

1. His name is JUMBY!!!! Jumby!?! Sounds like a character from "Banjo Kazooie"! Why not call the demonic antagonist, Sally Applecheeks? Silly Funhead? Huggy Bear? Jumby? JUMBY!?!?! JUMBY!?!?!?!?!?!?

Who directed this garbage!! David S. Goyer? I don't care if he wrote "The Dark Knight", you should never direct a movie! Also worth noting is that Michael Bay produced this. Congrats Bay, "Transformers 2" is not the worst movie you worked on in 2009.

AVOID THIS MOVIE LIKE THE PLAUGE!!! It's one of the worst movies of 2009, and one of the worst horror movies EVER!!!!!!! 1/10.

As a piece of modern, mainstream horror, THE UNBORN is somewhat effective. It has some creepy moments sprinkled throughout, and it offers a different enough take on the traditional exorcism movies that Hollywood has churned out with a great deal of regularity in the past few decades. However, because of its genre, it also must stand up to comparisons to William Friedkin's classic THE EXORCIST, and it's here that this film really falls apart.

The visual style of THE UNBORN is where the film really shines. It's a dreary film the entire way through, but it's still a nice film to look at. Sure, it ticks the boxes on the checklist of all of the cliched horror movie locations, but at least they're nice to look at.

Acting-wise, THE UNBORN is rather uneven. Odette Yustman is a decent enough actress, and she does a fair job of generating the necessary sympathy for her character in the film (which, in retrospect, is really all that she has to do in the film), but she's more suited to being a supporting actress rather than carrying an entire film on her shoulders. Oddly, Gary Oldman just kind of shows up well beyond the halfway point of the film, which is something of a distraction since he's really the only true star in this film, which is carried entirely by unknown actors (with the exception of the very limited screen time for James Remar) until Oldman just all of a sudden appears. He's solid in his part, if not quite up to the level we've come to expect from him (due most likely to a lacking script), but his presence is distracting to a degree.

The script is where this film really really pales in comparison to its competition. While the film gives us a different take on the traditional excorcist tale that we've been given countless times by Hollywood, the actual events of the film feel rather cobbled together from other movies. The horror genre is at its best when the filmmakers are making films that are truly original. THE UNBORN, however, is a rather unoriginal movie that contains many elements that we've seen time and time again, taking several elements from THE GRUDGE (which is a film that other films really should be borrowing from in the first place if they're looking to make a quality film).

On the plus side, THE UNBORN is creepy at times, and sports some decent acting from Gary Oldman and, at times, from Odette Yustman. The film's also fairly interesting to look at in terms of its visual style, but everything else is pretty mediocre, at best. This is a film that ultimately has been lost in the shuffle with the rest of the mainstream mediocrity of the horror genre, which is pretty much the place that it should have earned.