Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Unborn


I was expecting to be scared and I wasn't. I'm rarely pleased by any horror movie. They are all the same. They are either extremely gorey, being chased by some psycho killer or have some demon coming after them. I don't know why this had to be religious and I don't know why it needed an exorcism. Wait though, it wasn't a catholic exorcism though, it was a Jewish one. And I have to say it must be the only one I've seen in a movie. Maybe that's what the creators were thinking. "The are so many movies with exorcists, how can we make this one fresh???" "I know. Let's have a Rabi doing the exorcism." "Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?" I think they should have named the movie something else. One of the reasons I hadn't watched it in theatres was because the whole idea of being haunted by a fetus was ridiculous. As if a fetus had the conscious ability to know anything about life and wanting to be born. This could be useful in a parody. I have to say the scariest part was the man in the wheel chair and the little boy with the knife. True story, I happened to get a blizzard before going to a friend's house with a friend and on our way there a little boy about 5 maybe in blue pajamas ran at my car with a knife screaming. The stuff horror movies are made of. All in all, this is a lukewarm horror movie.

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