Usually, religious horror flicks involve demons and devils that are driven away through Catholic exorcisms. Now, there’s another demon in town, and this time it has nothing against the Catholics. The demon in The Unborn is connected to Judaism, Jewish folklore, the Kabbalah and, predictably, memories of Auschwitz.

 

The movie is brought to us by David Goyer, known to the public as the writer of the popular Blade series and the co-writer of the Batman movies written with Christopher Nolan.

 

The plot in The Unborn has been used many a times before, and people don’t seem to get sick of it – the story revolves around an unborn twin that is now seeking revenge on its surviving sibling. The first half-hour of the movie features the horror genre-omnipresent hot college girl, who is haunted by recurring nightmares involving potato bugs and a very creepy pale, dark-haired boy.

 

After this lengthy introduction, the movie is set on fast-forward, and it becomes hard to follow and understand in the remaining hour. Small incidents start to occur, which involve missing items, suicides and another creepy child mumbling “Jumby wants to be born...now.”

 

Goyer borrows specific tactics from both “The Exorcist” and master director Stanley Kubrick, but also adds a few of his own ideas, among which offering the girl some help, through Jane Alexander, a Holocaust survivor that is supposed to carry out a demon exorcism of sorts. The ending, unfortunately, entails the possibility of a sequel.