Post #12 - The Unborn

Please note this is a complete SPOILER and I am basically relaying how insanely stupid this movie was for your enjoyment. I suggest seeing the movie before reading this if you have any interest in it being surprise.

2009 Release
Directed by: David S. Goyer
Written by: David S. Goyer
Starring: Odette Annable, Gary Oldman & Cam Gigandet

So when I saw the preview for this movie I was excited because I absolutely love Gary Oldman, and somehow I blocked out all other stupid images in the preview and focused solely on the fact he was in this movie. And I have to be honest, I like this movie - it's stupid and annoying but I like it what can I say?

So here we have the story of Casey Beldon (Annable) who is your average young college girl whose mother killed herself when she was a child. Casey seems rather well adjusted given the fact her mother was fucking lunatic who hung herself in a mental institution, and her father is a work-a-holic who is never around. This works out fine for Casey because it allows her to spend more time with her boyfriend Mark (Gigandet).

The story begins to unfold as strange events start taking place around Casey - strange visions and messages. While babysitting neighbor's kids one night, the young son is messing around with a mirror and the baby in his crib. When Casey tells him to stop he says..."Jumby wants to be born now." WHAT????????? See this is why I love this movie, what the fuck does that mean? When they were writing the script and someone suggested that line no one smacked the fool? I love it. I kept saying the line over and over after I watched the movie because it was so stupid. Ok so now we all know Jumby wants to be born now.

Casey begins to have hallucinations and starts to fear she is slipping into madness like her mother. One day her BFF notices one of Casey's eyes is changing colors, alarmed she rushed to the doctor. She find out she has a rare condition caused when a twin dies while still inside the mother and some of its blood is transferred to the other baby through the cord. Unaware she was a twin she confronts her father who admits she did in fact have a brother who died very early on in the pregnancy. Guess what they called the boy -- JUMBY!!! Ok, now, what the fuck kind of name is Jumby anyway? Clearly these parents were fucking idiots. So now we know that Casey was supposed to be a twin and that Jumby wants to be born.

While looking through her mothers possessions Casey finds an article with a woman's name circled and seeks out this person. It turns out it's her grandmother who is living in an old age home and is a holocaust survivor. She too was a twin, but her brother was murdered by the nazis who performed horrible experiments on twin siblings in an attempt to harness the connection they felt twins shared. Casey becomes convinced that she is being possessed by the spirit of her grandmother's twin brother, who also tried to be born through her mother but ultimately died. Blah Blah Blah. All that matters is eventually she seeks out the aid of Rabbi Sendak (Oldman) who she feels can help exercise her demon. All this pointless stuff happens and by the end they are attempting an exorcism on Casey at the mental institution where her mother died. I really can't remember what happens but a bunch of people die and Casey somehow survives. But guess what...SHE IS KNOCKED UP! AND GUESS WHAT! IT'S TWINS!!!!!!

SO having said all that, I give this movie:

Oh I loved this movie and all its stupidness. The story was completely convoluted and stupid but I was enteratined. It was not gory or disgusting, and tried to be clever.