SYNOPSIS

Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body to inhabit.
And sometimes it actually succeeds.

Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.

Casey Bell (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spirtual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.

With Sendak’s help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany—a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.

Comments

For any mother who has ever fretted over whether she’s given birth to a devilish offspring, The Unborn should not be on your to-do list any time soon. On the other hand, the inexplicable PG-13 rating for this unruly kid occult outing, may be just the thing to give your children all sorts of exasperating ideas. Riddled with homicidal tots, interdenominational exorcists and something a whole lot more malevolent than the Nazis over at Auschwitz long ago, The Unborn, when not accidentally funny, scrapes the bottom of the barrel for new concepts in movie horror.

Written and directed David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins), The Unborn stars Odette Yustman as Casey, a Chicago coed who suspects something is just too weird for words when both boy and canine ghosts start joining her while out jogging. She eventually tracks down her hunches to an institutionalized mom who committed suicide, a twin brother she never knew about who died in the womb, and assorted other twins dating back to the Holocaust who may or may not hold the key to multiple birth demonic possession.

At wit’s end, not to mention utterly frazzled, Casey seeks help from Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman doing a bad imitation of a rabbi), a Kabbala guru who happens to know a thing or two about exorcism. After enlisting the co-exorcist aid of a basketball coach cleric, the determined duo tie Casey to a gurney in an abandoned building, and get down to business. After much prolonged mayhem and spirit fleeing, it turns out that just a good swat with a crowbar will do the trick nicely.

The Unborn is a mostly outlandish tale of really possessive, attention deficit disorder dybuks who can’t make up their mystical minds about which body is cool enough to inhabit. And concocted by inane idea gurus who think that genocide and motherhood make for really effective spooky narrative devices to exploit, but bad taste would be a better description. And though some of the images are on the terrifying side, like those supernatural creatures with their heads screwed on backwards, the same might be said of that what was he thinking filmmaker.

Finally my toilet has been completed last week. Tomorrow will be the start of my kitchen make-over but this time round it will be slightly better than no toilet at all. It has been quite troublesome without a toilet. It has caused a lot of inconvienced to alot of people whom are involved in the HDB upgrading plan. Though its a good time to start clearing up all those unwanted stuff but then again, after years of accumulating all these shit, it takes more than a week to really clear everything out and make up your mind as to what is really needed. Seriously, I didn’t expect clearing my whole kitchen took me almost a week to really clear up and throw.

Anyway, tomorrow is the start of my kitchen make-over and thus it would also mean that I’m going to have another sleepless day again but this time round, its only one day and thus its not that bad after all. I will be posting up my old and new toilet photo up soon. After which, my kitchen when everything has been done up. Yes, my room too. It will be a complete make-over. This month will be a avery busy and tiring month for me. I didn’t know a renovation works can be quite a tiring too indirectly to me and especially now I have been given the responsibility to take charge of some of the things. Oh well, the older you grow the more responsibility you would have after all. That’s natually the cause of it.

Before I end off. Yes, I forgot about the review on the two movie and some other movies that I have watched recently. It includes Fast and Furious 4, 12 Rounds, Shinjuku and shopholic. All reviews will be up by this coming weekends. Sorry about it.

Dearest Baby,

Thanks for eating this on 240309:

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