Show The Unborn an exercise in rehashed horror Diana Joy Jones Arts Editor Perhaps the biggest draw back to recent horror release The Unborn is that the film is never really born It is more poorly re-hatched re from past horror films After this movie extracts countless ideas a and d elements from froma a considerable amount of previous chillers notably The Exorcist and The Omen The Unborn loses its ability to provide genuine chills and any with a spook nick-named nick any other chances the film would have hoped for credibility go flying out the window At the center of familiarities is a beautiful college student Casey Odette While her primary job is to pose forthe forthe for forthe the camera camera scantily clad and belt out plenty of screams Casey's side profession is babysitting Things begin to get peculiar for Casey when her charge Matty Marty Atticus Shaffer b begins gins to utter creepy phrases with stone cold eyes and sober face the little boy from The Shinning and his repetition of ultimately comes to mind At an increasing speed Casey becomes witness to more bizarre happenings A wiggly insect plops out of an egg as she attempts to make breakfast Freaky dos dogs with t their headst heads r t attached completely upside down make random appearances Unexplained noises and the image of a pasty-faced pasty boy attired in dated clothing haunt the young heroine at a rapid speed It would seem that Casey is yet another vic victim im of a presumed demon The demon in question is isa isa isa a aka J and dates back to the Holocaust The is tied to disturbing experimentations conducted on twins Coincidently Casey would have been a twin had her sibling survived ved birth As to why the evil seedling spirit has chosen now to haunt Casey is unraveled along with more hackneyed story twists While the films film's plot plods along it drudges up more s The Unborn becomes complete with a creepy mental institution and an aged woman rendered insane from knowing too much Sofi Kozma Jane Alexander sports a thick German Gennan accent as she voices more answers to Casey's dizzying questions Within this uninspired effort is the supportive yet doubtful boyfriend Mark Cam Gigandet Mark wraps an arm around Casey to assure her she isn't insane but the victim of over-active over hormones Casey's good friend Romy Meagan Good despite her own superstitions holds her own reservations r I- 1 1 1 t r F L IT I Irl AJ VIS VI'S I l' l II J c ur u r t tr r r s a It I It I U N BaR N i o I 1 10 1 z j s 's tt t t I M r Jot x i mr f t. t Photo 00 I courtesy I of Yahoo Movies as to the validity of Casey's plight Interwoven in the films film's narrative is the additional presence of Rabbi An emotionally detached Gary whom is also skeptical of Casey's dilemma Naturally as hops around in the possession of central characters and performances of evil deeds everyone rallies around Casey and her impending need to exact the trie demon Throughout the movies movie's course it becomes 1 increasingly easier to see what is coming around the corner comer As The Unborn unearths all its secrets and reaches an climatic anti-climatic ending even effective visual moments of horror are ultimately drowned out by boredom Not even insect omelet is creepy enough to save this effort asit asit as asit it joins many other previous films into the realm run-of- run the mill rehashed horror The Unborn is rated PG 13 for violence I spooky images sexual themes and language II |