Review of The Unborn (2009) by Hellholehorror — 17 Dec 2022
The Unborn is a dreadfully unimaginative and dull jump-scare horror that looks great but has zero substance. It’s not that it's a badly made film, it’s just creatively empty with nothing notable. It’s a very pretty film with pretty people and pretty images that actually become distracting making it hard to focus or engage with the characters and the film.
You stop caring what happens and idly ride it out. Maybe that was the idea as the film itself is devoid of any real depth so looking pretty and some boring jumpscares are all that it has. It utilises every unimaginative trope of the exorcism and ghost genre.
The direction is unimaginative and sometimes misguided. I think that if the casting of the lead actress was different then it could have been much more engaging, it’s not that she’s a bad actress, it’s just that she is not right for the role.
It’s a challenging role that if she had been better cast would have carried the film. I really didn’t like the ending either, it wasn’t a complete story.
This review of The Unborn (2009) was written by Hellholehorror on 17 Dec 2022.
The Unborn has generally received mixed reviews.
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