"To quote a fellow movie critic - Be afraid of The Unborn because it sucks.

The trailer of the movie was indeed promising, although judging by the release date... we should have known better. All of us poor suckers that sat for 90 minutes, forced to watch with horror. No, not horror born from fear, but horror born from boredom that eats at your pride until you feel like killing yourself - all that not even half way into the movie.

I went to see The Unborn because it seemed promising. David Goyer gave us Blade (all three parts of it) and was partly responsible for The Dark Knight's brilliance but with The Unborn? He did an awful job. And I hope he knows it, because everybody who's seen the movie so far sure does.

While fighting desperately for my above mentioned pride and rolling my eyes at the half naked lead, I couldn't help but wonder - who's crazier? Me for sitting stoically while yet another "horror" movie falls apart in front of my eyes or actors such as Gary Oldman and Carla Gugino for actually agreeing to contribute to the lameness that The Unborn is. Those usually good actors don't manage to make the movie more than it is - a third (yes, third, not even second) rate pretend-scary movie with more than unimpressive basic idea.

First let's discuss the lead. Odette Yustman, known from Cloverfield, is Jessica Alba and Megan Fox morphed into one. And while that combination makes her oh so tall, skinny and cute, she can't act if her life depended on it. Throughout the entire movie, I had to force myself, again and again, to try and care for the main character Casey but to no avail. Yustman is a bad bad actress and without a doubt the second biggest reason for the movie's failure. In the sad scenes, she cried a little; in the "scary" ones she screamed, both of which she did horribly. Casey is supposed to be going through something truly terrible yet her best friend Romy (Meagan Good) looks far more convincing in the couple of scenes she can before she gets killed off. Bravo, Mr. Goyer, the only talented young actor of the cast had to die first - truly something that will help for The Unborn to be remembered.

For all the horror fans out there - if you decide to see The Unborn, you will be watching something you've already seen. Even though you may not decide exactly from where but every "frightening" idea in the movie originated in another movie. The twins idea reminds of Constantine, the creepy kid is something between The Omen and Silent Hill (wait, there are too creepy kids, so just have your pick), the bugs and the not so creepy but very boring lines such as "Jumby wants to be born now" are like quoting of The Shining. The little demon might as well have been saying "Here's Jumby!" every time he appeared on screen. At least then the audience would have been laughing at the good memories, instead of the awfulness of The Unscary.

I had nightmares after watching The Unborn. In the morning I couldn't quite decide why that was. I had had no trouble going to sleep because the movie hadn't managed to scare me more than once, if that, but then I realized that the whole idea was scary. It's horrifying how someone could get ideas from good horror movies and turn them into one extremely bad pretend-horror. There's terror in the thought that there might be a sequel to this movie, not just because Hollywood has a tradition of making sequels for sucky movies (such as Jeepers Creepers and The Hills Have Eyes) but also because it left an opening ending. Thanks to that final promising scene I'll probably have nightmares for another week but when the sequel comes out - I will be ready. I'll warn my friends and give out links to this review because no self respecting movie fan deserves to sit through a movie that is so lame it makes you want to cry. Or laugh. Some people in the audience did both and that is exactly how desperate you can get if you ignore the warning below.

The Unborn? Skip it."