Blu-ray Review: Odette Yustman stars in David Goyer's THE UNBORN (with Rated & Unrated versions on DVD & Blu-ray)

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ENTER A WORLD OF UNRELENTING EVIL AS TERROR FINDS A NEW FORM, IN THIS SHOCKING SUPERNATURAL THRILLER!

Evil will do anything to live.

"Director Goyer manages to sustain an effective, doom-laden mood... Goyer also invests in a barrage of genuinely unsettling images."
—Tom Ambrose (Empire)

From the Producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the co-writer of The Dark Knight...

THE UNBORN on DVD and Blu-ray »
The Unrated Cut — too shocking for theaters!
(now available)

Both DVD and Blu-ray include 2 versions of the movie — Theatrical and Unrated.

Writer and director David S. Goyer gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in THE UNBORN, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves. On July 7, own two versions on one disc, including the unrated cut too terrifying for theaters (from Universal Studios Home Entertainment).

From the co-writer of The Dark Knight and the producers who brought you The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in this chilling thriller that will haunt your soul. Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Dark Knight) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in THE UNBORN, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.

Own two versions on one disc, including the unrated cut too terrifying for theaters — from producer Michael Bay (Transformers), THE UNBORN stars Odette Yustman (Cloverfield), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight, Harry Potter film series), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Meagan Good (Saw V, Stomp the Yard) Jane Alexander (Terminator: Salvation, The Ring), and Carla Gugino (Night at the Museum, Sin City).

BONUS FEATURES include: (both DVD & Blu-ray)
• Deleted Scenes
• Rated PG-13 Version: 88 minutes
• Unrated Extended Version: 89 minutes

The Blu-ray edition is BD-Live Enabled, and includes My Scenes Sharing

THE UNBORN — Explore further:
—> Blu-ray Review by Dean Winkelspecht »
EXCERPT: I watched "The Unborn" in horror. The packaging told me the 'Unrated Cut' of the film was "too shocking for theaters" and the only thing I found shocking about "The Unborn" was just how bad the film really is. I can understand that Gary Oldman felt obliged to help David S. Goyer after "The Dark Knight," but this film is simply crap. It was a personal project for the Jewish director, but he missed the mark terribly in every possible way. The only good thing about the film is the beautiful young actress that runs around in tight fitting underwear. Poor Odette Yustman. She deserves better. There is nothing to like about this film. It is not scary. It is not interesting. It is not worth watching. I love horror films, but there was nothing to love about "The Unborn."

Avoid "The Unborn." It is a horribly smelly stink-bomb of a horror film that was created because David S. Goyer is a talented screen writer and he managed to talk Gary Oldman into helping him out. Oldman should have stuck with his role as Commissioner Gordon and I hope Goyer´s involvement with this labour of love will be forgotten. I had high hopes for this film and they are now so terribly squashed and twisted that I feel a terrible feeling that the beautiful Odette Yustman's career is sunk. The Blu-ray release is technically sound, but Universal must have smelled how bad this film stinks because hardly any bonus offerings were included. It doesn't matter how this film looks, sounds or what bits of value-added content are included. Simply put, this movie is a turd of the worst smell. Keep away. I beg of you.

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"The Unborn cribs from so many movies, it's enough to make your head spin."
—Claudia Puig, USA Today

Theatrical Version:
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references.

Film Synopsis:
Evil will do anything to live.
Evil wants to be born... NOW.
Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in The Unborn. From the producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the co-writer of The Dark Knight comes this shocking supernatural thriller about a young woman (Odette Yustman) plagued by chilling dreams and tortured by a demonic ghost that haunts her waking hours. Her only hope to break the debilitating paranormal curse is in an exorcism with spiritual advisor Sendak (Gary Oldman). See what lies beyond the doorway of our world in this non-stop nightmare of the undead...

A horror film combining ghostly children, Nazi experiments, and the Kabbalah, THE UNBORN also features a strong female heroine and plenty of surprisingly gruesome shocks. Writer-director David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity) has seemingly taken inspiration from classics like Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1974), as well as the more recent The Eye (2002), during the creation of this slick thriller featuring an attractive young cast and some disturbing effects work.

College student Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman, Cloverfield) begins having dreams about a spooky little boy with bright blue eyes. She thinks nothing of it as first, but when the image becomes a recurring motif and the boy she babysits for hits her in the face and tells her "Jumby wants to be born now," she begins to get frightened. After learning that she had a twin brother who died in utero, she finds a photo of her late mother with the same ghostly child looming in the background. A newspaper clipping then leads Casey to visit an elderly Holocaust survivor (Jane Alexander) in a nursing home. The woman clues her in to a dark family secret extending back to WWII, which prompts her to employ the services of Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman), whose skepticism about evil spirits is vanquished when he sees what he is up against.

Goyer's pacing is brisk, and the THE UNBORN's jolts start right out of the gate. Yustman is an appealing lead, and the surprising presences of veterans Oldman and Alexander add some weight to the proceedings. The violence is never too graphic, but a few of the sequences are surprisingly icky, as are some of the supernatural beings that pop up. The result is a fun thriller that crams a lot of spookiness into its PG-13 rating.