| Not as bad as I was expecting--and let's all be really honest here, you watch this movie not for the horror but to watch its star Odette Yustman wandering around in her underpants, a fact highlighted by the incredibly honest international poster for this movie.
It is another in the long line of "there is something inside you and it wants to get out" films. To its credit it does a good job of finding a new spirit, in this case a Hebrew Dybbuk, to play the baddie; and some of the hauntings are rather creepy--the opener, and when Gary Oldman sees the dog with the upside down head were all very creepy--there's just something messed up about a dog with an upside down head, let me tell you. But the rest of the movie is painfully predictable, almost insulting the audience with its by-the-numbers execution. The ending really put me off this movie by how absurd the "twist" was.
My favorite one of these kinds of movies is "Manitou", about Susuan Strassberg who has a tumor on her neck that is actually a Native American Shaman waiting to be reborn. Now that is a wild and crazy horror movie. "The Unborn" is not bad, it just aims for the middle and hits it. |