The Unborn

Blade II and Batman Begins scribe David S. Goyer writes and directs this supernatural thriller about a 19-year-old girl (Odette Yustman) haunted by a "dybbuk" (a malevolent wandering soul of Jewish folklore) that was once a young boy ruthlessly slaughtered in Auschwitz. Casey Beldon (Yustman) was ...more

For any horror flick, audience fright is job one, and audience laughter can be the death knell of the whole operation. Horror movies that choose the higher road of supernatural themes and suspense to elicit thrills (as opposed to the gore-porn of slasher flicks) also run the risk of toeing the surprisingly thin line between the two reactions. The Unborn, unfortunately, in its eagerness to jump right into the good stuff, had my audience laughing from the first scene, and proceeded to become an ...more

Horror fans are a fickle bunch; we channel every last kilowatt of our personal energy into complaining about the seemingly endless stream of remakes and rip-offs that flood the box office, yet the moment a filmmaker takes the time and care to craft an original story, we're perfectly willing to condemn it sight unseen if we have even the slightest suspicion about their motives in wanting to frighten us. Perhaps nowhere is this trend evidenced more than in the sticky area of film ratings. As the ...more