Movie 64: The Unborn

A young woman has been having some weird dreams. When babysitting the neighbours kids, the eldest (about 6?) is acting very strangely. He hits her with a mirror and says “Jumby wants to be born now”. When she sees a Doctor for some eye damage caused by the whack he asks if she’s a twin as her eye colour is changing. She thought she was an only child, but she had a brother who died in the womb. Through investigating her past she finds a haunting that has gone back 3 generations, a family stalked by a dybbuk since Auschwitz.

Yup, some horror drivel. But it’s by David S Goyer, he wrote the first two Blades and Batmans and Flash Forward. Why yes dear reader, but he also wrote Blade: Trinity and Ghost Rider.

This is the later category. The film has its moments, though they are quite short lived. It has some good ideas, but they aren’t really capitalised properly.

The good stuff is mainly in the second half. When the main female character is by herself in the second half she’s fine, in the first, particularly with her best friend, she’s pretty annoying. The scenes with Gary Oldman in them are pretty good. The scenes with Granny in them are pretty good.

The first half has a lot of random weirdness that barely makes sense. Actually that’s exaggerating the amount of sense it makes. Dubbyk’s abilities aren’t exactly well known though. Her lovely boyfriend seems like a bit of a douche, though he redeems himself. There’s a lot of scenes that seems to be shot in a way to just show that she’s sexy, and it looks very unrealistic.

And if you like jump scares, you’ll get plenty. Not much else though. The jump scares are a little cheaply obtained as the dialogue is pretty damned quiet so you have to watch at a volume where the scares with be REALLY LOUD BOO ARGH JUMP! The CGI is also of a pretty low standard, making a lot of the demonic monsterness look like arse.

Definitely a b grade horror, not really worth your time in my opinion. It feels disjointed and the acting in the first half is a big let down. When the exorcism stuff comes along two thirds in its rushed, and it just kind of rampages towards an ending. Then it has a pretty obvious twist. Skippy skip.

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