THE UNBORN

"He wants to be born now"

When Casey Beldon (Yustman) started having terrifying dreams about a strange young boy, she confides in her best friend Romy (Good). As the pair investigate, it leads back to her mother's (Gugino) suicide but now the boy is appearing in her waking dreams asking to be born. Discovering that her mother had found her grandmother, Nazi concentration camp survivor Sofi Kozma (Alexander), she also is shocked to find she was in fact a twin and it is her brother that is coming for her.

When it comes to Hollywood and horror their output has been very lacklustre as of lack but can 'The Unborn' change this?

The Hollywood horror movie has lost its way over the last decade or so. Filled with remakes of 70s and 80s classics, English speaking versions of Asian hits and the advent of torture horror has sent the genre become stagnated for many a year. While Sam Raimi and his 'Ghost House Pictures' are trying to inject some scares into the genre, it is Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes that is the main remake culprit.

After remaking 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'The Amityville Horror' and 'The Hitcher', the production company finally make an original horror movie but by the end of it, you will be wishing that they didn't. Writer/director David S. Goyer brings us a story of possession and a demonic child that had the potential to provide to genuine scares but instead we have a predictable and sometimes unintentionally funny horror movie that really shouldn't have seen the light of day.

When you discover this comes from the man who had a hand in writing 'Blade', 'Dark City', 'Jumper' and most importantly 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight', your expectation might be raised but they shouldn't be. What we have here is a complete mess of a horror movie that tries to take the best from Asian horror and combine this with traditional American young person killing but what we get an abomination. The story of a girl who is having vivid, waking visions of a young boy and all manner of other strange things, like dogs wearing masks might sound frightening but it really isn't. When you discover that the scary boy's name is Jumby and he is a demon trying to be born by possessing twins you know you are in for a stupid ride.

You have to wonder what the cast saw in this terrible premise. With stars and acclaimed actors like Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino and Idris Elba appearing in the film, your expectation might be raised, especially when the star of the movie Odette Yustman is as beautiful as she is talented. Instead you cringe when you see them act out a health and safety scene before an exorcism. That is how bad this movie is.

'The Unborn' should remain so. This is another example of the lack of good horror movies coming out of Hollywood at the moment. When an acclaimed writer can't even get it right, you have to wonder what depths Tinsel Town is going to scrape next.