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The Unborn might cause giggles
By
Derek Malcolm
26 Feb 2009
Casey (Odette Yustman), a hapless college student, faces weird little children, dogs who, like Linda Blair, can swivel their heads upside
down and scores of creepy-crawly Jerusalem crickets in David S Goyer’s horror movie.
Naturally, she screams a lot, which is a staple substitute for acting in this sort of thing.
These creatures are the unborn of the title, or rather dybbuks trying to inhabit the bodies of others, including Casey’s. They are something to
do with Dr Mengele and his concentration camp experiments.
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One wishes the Holocaust wouldn’t be made to take the blame for films such as this, and one also wishes that the effective special effects were put to better use. But the screenplay by Goyer himself, who wrote Blade and co-wrote The Dark Knight, this time doesn’t limber up. The presence of Gary Oldman as an exorcising rabbi in a skull cap, however, might cause a few giggles.
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