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		List Price: $39.98		Label: Universal Studios Salesrank: 27437 Released: July 7, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in The Unborn. From the producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the co-writer of The Dark Knight comes this shocking supernatural thriller about a young woman (Odette Yustman) plagued by chilling dreams and tortured by a demonic ghost that haunts her waking hours. Her only hope to break the debilitating paranormal curse is in an exorcism with spiritual advisor Sendak (Gary Oldman). See what lies beyond the doorway of our world in this non-stop nightmare of the undead…

Description of The Unborn [Blu-ray]:
Gary Oldman as an exorcist in an evil-twin movie inflected with Jewish mysticism? You're already halfway there, right? Hold on, because The Unborn is one of those horror movies that sounds more intriguing in synopsis than it plays. Pity unfortunate babysitter Odette Yustman (Cloverfield), who begins experiencing weird visions just about the time she learns she had a twin that died before birth. Said ghostly twin is suddenly popping up everywhere, leading Yustman to visit a rabbi (that's Oldman) who suspects she is haunted by a dybbuk, a spirit of Jewish legend. All of which is a reasonable set-up, but the movie that results is so ham-fistedly written and played that a few good early shocks dissolve in general ludicrousness. Writer-director David S. Goyer, who worked on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, displays a tin ear here--the presence of a surprisingly decent cast (Jane Alexander, Idris Elba) simply demonstrates how bad the dialogue is: if they can't speak it, nobody could. The movie's biggest reach is tying its half-baked creepy-kid act to a backstory that includes Auschwitz--well, you can't say Goyer lacks nerve. There's always Oldman, who never backs down from a little scenery chewing if the cause is already lost. It's not enough to salvage this one. --Robert Horton

The Unborn [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Boring
2009-12-14 - 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.

It could have been good
2009-11-27 - 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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2009-11-23 - 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.

Unborn, and unresearched...
2009-11-14 - This movie has an excellent premise: the "twin" fetus that died in utero so that the heroine/main character could survive now wants its own chance at life. Perhaps bringing in the Jewish concentration camp survivor was a good idea; I'm not sure. It seemed to make the plot a little foggier. Had it been the spirit/consciousness or ghost of the unborn twin rather than a long-lived, erm, Monster-Demon? I think I'd have found it more interesting. But since they did go with a Jewish demon, and required a rabbi and a Hebrew "exorcism"(Spoiler alert -- quit here if you haven't seen it and want to be surprised -- although after the first half hour surprise is unlikely)they should at least have done a few things right. Did anyone else notice that they read the secret Hebrew book from front to back, and each page from left to right? Hebrew, like Arabic, is written from right to left, and books are read from what readers of English and European languages consider back to front. OK, so I'm picky. But when the plot is thin to begin with, it doesn't take much to break the suspension of disbelief. That broke mine. And the ending? She's pregnant, with TWINS? Could it be more cliched? I think not. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't a scare fest. The best thing about it was that it relied slightly more on suspense and fear than slashing and splattering (the latter seems to require little to no plot at all these days). The acting was so-so, better than a lot of recent movies, but if you're looking for a good tight plot, you won't find it here.

"How Big Is The Universe?" ~ Blurring The Line Between Science And The Occult
2009-11-01 - The horror film 'The Unborn' falls into the regrettable category; 'so much potential, so little realization'.

Just look at the positives:
1- Odette Yustman (does anyone else out there think she could be Megan Fox's twin sister?) was a great choice for the female in distress role.
2- Gary Oldman is one of the best in the business.
3- The decision to try something different from the overused Catholic priest/demon scenario and go with a seldom if ever explored Judaic mysticism/dybbuk storyline was genius.
4- The special effects were adequate and the film was overall successful in creating an otherworldly atmosphere that was both intriguing and believable.

So what went wrong? The first indication that the film was losing steam and direction was its inability to supply the audience with sufficient back story information on Jewish lore and the concept of the dybbuk. This blatantly missed opportunity to explore such a rich and obscure tradition was unforgivable. To be honest this omission may not be as bothersome to the majority of viewers, it just happens to be a subject matter of great interest to me.

Be that as it may, to a larger degree the storyline ultimately met its Waterloo during the exorcism sequence. I don't know what the makers of this film had in mind, but whatever it was the film lost all coherence at this juncture. Instead of staging a classic confrontation between the powers of good and evil they opted for a massive carnage scene which literally destroyed the continuity of the film and left the storyline and characters no where to go.

The storyline of 'The Unborn" is something I'd like to see revisited and thoroughly explored again sometime soon. Hopefully next time by someone who knows what they're talking about.