The Unborn has come in for some criticism which I feel is somewhat unfair.
Casey is having bad dreams featuring a creepy kid with creepy contact lenses and the message "Jumby wants to be born now." This turns out to be a Dybbuk which wanted to use Casey's unborn twin brother to be reborn and has now latched on to her: only a multi-faith exorcism can deal with it.
There are some moments to make you jump, some creepy visuals (most of which show up in the trailer), Gary Oldman taking the pay cheque as a rabbi, and a tolerable (but not unforeseeable) twist at the end. The Dybbuk is not a horror movie baddie I have encountered before, so well done for that - however, it essentially manifests as a creepy kid who leaps out of shadows snarling, and those have been a dime a dozen ever since the Japanese started the fashion a few years ago.
Some say that the film is no more than an excuse for Odette Yustman (Casey) to wander around in her knickers - however, she does this a good deal less than I had been led to believe, and I was quite disappointed.
There were also a number of unanswered questions, things which nagged at me. Casey lives with her Dad in a house which is the size of a stately home - how come? Is Stacey at high school or university (we see her in a lecture hall)? Presumably it's university and presumably it's really near her home? What does her Dad do? They are clearly close, so when Casey is going through this really difficult time why is he nowhere to be seen? These things worry me.
Anyone disappointed in this movie must have really high expectations for what they want a horror movie to be.
Casey is having bad dreams featuring a creepy kid with creepy contact lenses and the message "Jumby wants to be born now." This turns out to be a Dybbuk which wanted to use Casey's unborn twin brother to be reborn and has now latched on to her: only a multi-faith exorcism can deal with it.
There are some moments to make you jump, some creepy visuals (most of which show up in the trailer), Gary Oldman taking the pay cheque as a rabbi, and a tolerable (but not unforeseeable) twist at the end. The Dybbuk is not a horror movie baddie I have encountered before, so well done for that - however, it essentially manifests as a creepy kid who leaps out of shadows snarling, and those have been a dime a dozen ever since the Japanese started the fashion a few years ago.
Some say that the film is no more than an excuse for Odette Yustman (Casey) to wander around in her knickers - however, she does this a good deal less than I had been led to believe, and I was quite disappointed.
There were also a number of unanswered questions, things which nagged at me. Casey lives with her Dad in a house which is the size of a stately home - how come? Is Stacey at high school or university (we see her in a lecture hall)? Presumably it's university and presumably it's really near her home? What does her Dad do? They are clearly close, so when Casey is going through this really difficult time why is he nowhere to be seen? These things worry me.
Anyone disappointed in this movie must have really high expectations for what they want a horror movie to be.