The Unborn Film Review

We want to be bored now...

Just when you thought horror films could not become any more farfetched The Unborn pushes out all the stops to be the silliest attempt yet.

Movies about Americans being haunted by dead relatives is a plot that is almost as old as the history of cinema itself but this latest offering by David S Goyer (co-writer of The Dark Knight) tries to add a new twist to the moudly old storyline by having the lead character haunted by someone who was never even born in the first place.

Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) is haunted by peculiar dreams on a day-to-day basis. But it is not until she is smashed over the head with a mirror that she begins to get haunted by her dead twin brother who died when he was only a few weeks old inside their mother's womb.

Strangely enough her non-existant brother takes on the guise of a five year old boy and seems to hold enough intelligence to spook his grown-up sister as well as being able to speak English as well as the next perosn despite never having been taught it.

Casey begins to suspect that the spirit of her dead brother is being possessed by a demon who wishes to be born so it can live in our world.

And her grandmother does little to discourage such crazy notions when she tells Casey that her own twin brother died decades earlier at the hand of Nazi experiments.

The more logical conclusion to resolve the movie's odd and over the top plot would have been to allow the film to end on the note that Casey had imagined the entire thing as a result of mild concussion from the blow she received over the head by the mirror earlier on in the storyline. But instead it chooses the route of exorcisms and grisly deaths.

The unborn is in cinemas now.