The Unborn DVD Review
SoHood.com Reviewed by: Johnny Pavlik
Movie Rating:  3.5 out of 5
Extras Rating: 5 out of 5

Casey Beldon hated her mother for abandoning her as a child. But when inexplicable events begin to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only person, Rabbi Sendak, who can make it stop. With the help of Sendak, her best friend Romy and boyfriend Mark, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany–a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.

For the best experience to watch the film I suggest chosing the unrated version which I watched it really captures the essense of the whole vision the director had for this film. Anyways, to start off my review of the movie, it begins with Casey (Odette Yustman) jogging in her dreams and seeing things related to a ghostlike dead boy who keeps bothering her not just in her dreams but in reality as well. After a baby dies from her babysitting job parents, she tries to look for answers. Casey finds out from her Dad (James Remar) that she is a twin but that his brother died before ever being born. Her grandma then tells Casey that she needs to find a person named Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman) and that he will be able to help her exercise word passages from the book of mirrors to destroy the demon child.

All in the while Casey struggles to keep her sanity, her best friend Romy (Meagan Good) tries to help her but she is then attacked by the evil spirit. Her boyfriend stays with her to the dying end. There was some scenes that I was taken back, one was where the old man at the retirement home, he twisted his entire head around, it was a sickening sight to watch.

The story and the background of the ghost was great! The screenwriters did their research and were pretty accurate, and it made sense. And the ending was great it left an opening for a possible sequel.