The Unborn
What:
The Unborn
When:
In cinemas Feb 26
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
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I'm pretty hopeless in horror movies. I screamed the second time I saw The Sixth Sense, and in The Orphanage I moaned so piteously that another cinema patron hissed at me, "You're not helping!" So yeah, I was anxious about seeing The Unborn.
College student Casey (bargain-basement Jessica Alba, Odette Yustman) keeps seeing foetuses and evil ghost kids, then the boy she babysits bashes her with a mirror before intoning, "Jumby wants to be born now. "Eventually, Casey learns her family is tormented by a dybbuk - a Kabbalistic demon - and her last hope is an exorcism by Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman).
Oldman appears bewildered to be in this increasingly preposterous movie. Writer/director David Goyer (The Dark Knight) has tried to be original, but dialogue such as: "It has fallen on you to finish what began in Auschwitz" blends high camp and moral glibness. But the scares - mostly of the ‘creepy-crawly' and ‘boo!' flavours -still got to me.
The young preview audience thought it was a riot. They laughed when Casey's sassy best friend Romy (Meagan Good) told our demonic child, "Fuck off, you little shit!" And they laughed at me when I screamed in terror.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home
Keywords: Gary Oldman, Horror
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