The Unborn

Ugh. Tedious, boring, flat. Joey is the highlight for trying to act in an awful film. Tough chick with a gun gets old real fast. Was there a story? Not really.

It's late at night in a deserted factory primed for demolition, with just two security guards responsible for covering 18 floors! What could possibly go wrong? Anyway, Joey and Tiffany have to check each room on each floor of the factory to confirm that it's clear, before the demolition crew arrives at daybreak. The rooms are sealed with tape, armed with alarms, and monitored with security cameras, so it should be an easy job. But when alarms start going off for no apparent reason while doors mysteriously open and close, Joey and Tiffany start to wonder if they might have a problem that doesn't match their job description. The Unborn was wildly successful at the prestigious Shriekfest Film Festival, where director Tal Lazar and writer Danny Matier won the highly coveted Best Horror Feature. Despite this, it has inexplicably languished at a pathetic and wholly undeserved 3.8 on IMDB. I find this difficult to comprehend, because The Unborn is a very close to a master class in short filmmaking (it clocks in at a sparse 70 minutes). The characters are well drawn, the tight plot is constructed swiftly but efficiently from a sparse framework of clues, the acting is solid, and the conclusion is punchy. Fans of the indy scene will immediately recognise Manni L. Perez and Chris Bellant in the lead roles. I rate The Unborn at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as an impressive 8/10 on IMDB.

I would give this a 4.5 If I was able. Movie left way to much answered, could of really used a extra 20mins for that reason. Was shot very well and acting was good also. I really enjoyed the atmosphere they had for the movie. I'm a fan of movies that take place during a "night shift" at work.

Abandoned places usually make for great horror, I don't know what this is, but it's not horror. Then we get this hat... dude... Uhm, the hell? The only actual scary MF with a hat is the hat man, could have done a lot better with shadow people.

This movie was so boring, I thought it was three hours long. I kept falling in and out of sleep, waiting on something to happen. When I read the reviews and realized how short the movie was, I almost fell off the bed. If you can't sleep, turn this on, and it will be like you just took a fistful of Benadryl.

This movie is great to laugh it. And then if you're tired, sleep to it. If I could give it 0 stars I would. This movie is TRASH. The ending was kinda good and that's it.

Not great not bad sums it up perfectly. The problem is everyone is an expert and if it has even a single jump scare the pseudo critics and film school wannabes immediately reject the movie. It's maddening that you see so many jerks who clearly have no control over aspects of their lives that they wish they had they turn into professional critics to take out their frustrations on a movie. It's a horror movie just like every horror movie before it the same weaknesses and strengths but for some reason horror movies more than any other genre get torn apart in ways that the tiny picked nits are seized like doughnuts at the first weight watchers meeting. I watch horror movies almost exclusively and being stuck at home I probably watch 20 plus a week this doesn't make me anymore of an expert than those I'm ripping with this but it makes it easier to spot an unreasonably critical attack.