If you haven’t heard of “The Unborn,” don’t get discouraged, because you’re in the majority as are we, because we didn’t have a clue that this film existed until today. From the trailer, all that we could get was that a sexy but reserved babysitter gets hit in the eye with a tea cup by the kid from the “Hancock” trailer. The attack causes her to go to an eye doctor who tells her that her irises are two different colors. The eye doctor tells her that this is mostly common in twins, but she is an only child, or so she thought… She finds out that she had a twin brother who died in the whom and freaky shit starts happening. “By living, you denied him entry in to our world.” Those words are actually spoken in the trailer!
Multiple objects fly through the air without any explanation, because why let an audience know what a film is about when you can just show busty chicks screaming? High points from the trailer are when the “Hancock” kid assaults the girl, when Michael Bay’s name pops up as a producer, every-time Gary Oldman is on screen, when this old man is climbing up stairs on all fours as his head spins in all different directions, Idris Elba beating up the guy from “Never Back Down,” and whenever the little boy who represents the unborn twin pops in to frame.
The movie is written and directed by David S. Goyer, the man who co-wrote “Batman Begins,” but also wrote and directed the film similar to this one, “The Invisible.”
‘Unborn’ comes out January 9th, 2009, which is prime tripe season, so don’t expect anything from this one.
Would you expect anything less from a producer like Michael Bay?
I’ll agree the first half of the trailer had me rolling my eyes, and thinking, “what the hell is this?” Also the fact that i hate child actors, especially the ones that are supposed to be scary and not what they seem (guess we have The Omen to thank for that), doesn’t help things either.
But i’ll go ahead and give it props for some freaky font, some interesting looking fx and makeup (that i’ll a least need to see more of), and although i didn’t really fully get the plot…what i think it might be, is actual pretty scary when you think about it.
Side note: why does a great great actor like Gary Oldman make such bad bad films? check his name on imdb…half the films u’ve never heard of (and i’m sure most of those r bad, at least the ones i’ve seen) and then the other half u know r bad (yes, he’s usually good in them, but still). Although i still say he’s the bomb in Nobody’s Baby. Anyone seen the Spanish film The Backwoods?