I don't know why I even bothered to watch this.

| Original Score: F | Sep 12, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

[An] exuberantly creepy mash-up of Jewish folklore, J-horror atmospherics, and demonic possession boilerplate.

| Jan 5, 2010

Some of the ideas here may seem original, if questionable, but the treatment -- by writer-director David Goyer -- is strictly conventional, with the shock moments obviously inserted at regular intervals, usually while the heroine is in her underwear.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Cue a creepy toddler, various demonically possessed adults and a Jewish exorcism conducted by Gary Oldman. He's a vastly better actor than the film deserves, but he can't make the script seem even slightly better than it is.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Despite some gruesome special effects, the telling of this story is so prosaic and predictable that genuine thrills are in very short supply.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 27, 2009

David S Goyer's non-kosher riff on 'The Exorcist' is stillborn,

| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 27, 2009

A scary movie so fantastically stupid and crass it made my skull contract and my sinuses harden to the consistency of pipe-cleaners.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2009

The Unborn becomes rapidly tedious even as the body count racks up.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2009

It's hard to imagine a more ham-fisted attempt at the genre of 'womb horror' than this flat-footed supernatural drama with a Jewish twist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Despite some massive flaws and a disappointing over-reliance on jump scares, The Unborn is comfortably the best entry yet from Platinum Dunes, Michael Bay's previously remake-happy horror production outfit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2009

The demonic possession plot thereafter breaks down in a tasteless swamp of Nazi experiments on twins, dogs with inverted heads and an exorcism led by rabbi Gary Oldman. Oy vey! The kosher paranormal: a trend in the offing?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Kabbalah meets The Exorcist in this hotchpotch hokum of vengeful ghosts, killer children, crazy old psychic ladies and supernatural Nazi experimentation.

| Feb 27, 2009

The screenplay by Goyer himself, who wrote Blade and co-wrote The Dark Knight, this time doesn't limber up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one, but he does make sure you're never far away from a big 'Boo!'

| Original Score: B- | Jan 14, 2009

Filmed in Chicago but universal in its lameness...The Unborn is the story of a dybbuk who makes trouble for the skinny North Shore college girl played by Odette Yustman, who's always out jogging when she should be considering a sandwich.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 9, 2009

A laughably bad horror flick involving demonic possession, concentration camps and torturous genetic experiments.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 9, 2009

What darkness the movie achieves comes solely from the lighting.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 9, 2009

Before long, the connective tissue between scares starts to call attention to its own preposterousness.

| Jan 9, 2009

The Unborn is a baby-sitter horror flick (it's for and about them) with classic creep-out elements that unite in a surprisingly engrossing story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2009