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Bookmark this pageThe Unborn (2009)
Director: David S Goyer
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From Time Out London
David S Goyer’s non-kosher riff on ‘The Exorcist’ is stillborn, as was its heroine Casey’s twin brother, strangled in utero by her umbilical cord. But now the latest in an infected bloodline to be possessed by a dybbuk (a spirit) wants to be born. It all began with her grandma’s experience at the hands of Nazi eugenicists, and now college girl Casey (Odette Yustman) must ‘finish what began in Auschwitz’.One of her brown eyes turns Aryan blue and she is compelled to pad around in her underwear. Her sensitive boyfriend (Cam Gigandet) and sassy girlfriend (Meagan Good) can’t help, so Casey asks a rabbi (an embarrassed Gary Oldman) to rid her of this evil spirit.
Goyer throws everything at this preposterous plot – a demonic child, spooky mirrors, a rabid dog with an upside-down head and an exorcism conducted in Hebrew. It’s almost too silly to be offensive. Almost, but not quite.
Author: Nigel Floyd
Time Out London Issue 2010, 26 Feb - 4 Mar, 2009
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- J-Dog & L-dog said...
- Posted on Mar 17 2009 12:32 Omg this film. we are going to miss waterloo road just to watch this, it better be worth it, scumbags.
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- movie crit said...
- Posted on Mar 15 2009 17:02 DOG SHIT.
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- dweeb said...
- Posted on Mar 15 2009 13:38 off to see this today with my bird... hope it's proper gangsta, looks proper sick on the tele bring it on beatches!!
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- beth said...
- Posted on Mar 14 2009 08:21 off to see it today, i hope its not as shit as what people say it is. cuz ive seen alot of shit films lately
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- beth said...
- Posted on Mar 14 2009 08:19 off to see it today, i hope its not as shit as what people say it is
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- jody said...
- Posted on Mar 13 2009 18:11 this film is the best
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Posted on Mar 12 2009 19:46
i dont like horrors but this was amazing!
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- georgiina (: said...
- Posted on Mar 12 2009 16:45 unborn all the girls at my school have seen this film and im going to see it friday at ugc in strood so i let yoou know what its like (:
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- caeser said...
- Posted on Mar 12 2009 11:30 watchet half hour of it n it board me shitless so i longed it...for the record i fink its bollocks...should have i stayed till the end?
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- bubbles said...
- Posted on Mar 11 2009 20:52 I think that it looks good and you should go and see it no matter what everyone else says,, you need to find out for your self! soo everyone go and see it ,, i am!
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- Sammy :) said...
- Posted on Mar 10 2009 22:39 Am gonna c it on fridaayy wivv my friends pple sayin its good nd shiit, So wht is itt.
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- Nat said...
- Posted on Mar 10 2009 13:21 went to see this last week . was very pridictable, made me jump in a few places but not as good as it could have been. more than likely will bring out "the unborn 2" as the story was left a little open!!
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- Basscymro said...
- Posted on Mar 10 2009 00:16 The plot is weak and very predictable. This is one of the worst horror films I have ever seen. Boring and predictable and pointless
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- lone wolf 94 said...
- Posted on Mar 09 2009 18:12 it sounds good, i want to see it but the comments i've seen it kind of sounds crap...
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- Chloe said...
- Posted on Mar 09 2009 14:36 Went to the cinema to see this film with my boyfriend, it was really good and i really enjoyed it. There was an amazing storyline to it and it wasn't very scary but it made me jump a few times. It is a film that youu have to go and see. (:
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Cast & crew
Director: David S Goyer
Cast: Odette Yustman, Jane Alexander, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, Idris Elba, Atticus Shaffer, James Remar, Carla Gugino full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 87 mins
UK Release: Feb 27 2009
US Release: Jan 9 2009
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