The Unborn (2009)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  2 / 10

  The Unborn gave birth to nothing. Literal vacuous emptiness. Non-sensical, pointless and quite simply dull. "Jumby wants to be born now". Well I wish he would because lord knows it would've been something at the very least. Nothing happened! This is the same Goyer that penned the script for 'The Dark Knight', right? I guess even those who have reached such heights must fall from grace eventually. A young woman experiences unusual occurrences involving a child, to which she soon finds out she had an unborn twin brother. It is soon revealed that her family had been cursed with a Jewish demon, since Nazi Germany apparently (because anything related to Judaism must reference the holocaust). Seriously should've just stuck with the twin scenario and have the horror thematically convey the bond between siblings even through death. Unashamedly it goes for the jump scare approach, practically ticking every horror cliché off of the checklist. Gary Oldman, Idris Elba, Jane Alexander and Carla Cugino have roles in this atrocity. And guess what? They are the only redeeming factors. Annable was absolutely shocking, did no one tell her acting was required? "Just stand there in your panties babe, ooooh love that thigh gap!". The writing was appalling, lacking characterisation, tension and any sense of logic. The "scares" were tame and had obvious faults. There is a scene where a paralysed man crawls along the floor and his fully head rotates. The camera cuts back to him and his CGI face is actually facing the right way up. Did anyone try here? The third act is just another exorcism for crying out loud! Oldman is shouting random words in Yiddish as the cameraman is having a seizure. Underused credible actors are sidelined for good looking yet dull leads who are directed by someone who clearly made a disposable horror marketed towards teenagers. Loud, obnoxious and somehow incredibly boring. Jumby can stay in the womb!

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