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The Unborn is a 2009 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David S. Goyer. The film stars Odette Yustman as a young woman who is tormented by a dybbuk and seeks help from a rabbi (Gary Oldman). The dybbuk seeks to use her death as a gateway to physical existence.[4][5] Produced by Michael Bay and his production company Platinum Dunes, it was released in American theaters on January 9, 2009, by Rogue Pictures, making it the last film Goyer directed.

The Unborn
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid S. Goyer
Written byDavid S. Goyer
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJames Hawkinson
Edited byJeff Betancourt
Music byRamin Djawadi
Production
companies
  • Rogue Pictures[1]
  • Relativity Media
  • Platinum Dunes
Distributed byUniversal Pictures[1]
Release date
  • January 9, 2009 (2009-01-09)
Running time
87 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$16 million[3]
Box office$76.5 million[3]

Plot


Casey Beldon has nightmarish hallucinations of strange-looking dogs in the neighborhood and an evil child with bright blue eyes following her around. While babysitting Matty, her neighbor's son, she finds him showing his infant sibling its reflection in a mirror. Matty attacks Casey, smashing the mirror on her head, and tells her: "Jumby wants to be born now". She puts him to bed and leaves in shock.

Casey's friend Romy tells her of a superstition that newborns should not see their reflections in the mirror for at least a year because otherwise they will die soon. Casey's eyes begin to change color; a doctor asks if she is a twin, and explains the change as tetragametic chimerism and heterochromia, and that it is completely normal. Her neighbor's infant dies, supporting the superstition.

Casey's father admits that she had a twin brother years ago who died while he was in the womb when her umbilical cord strangled him, and whom he and Casey's late mother, Janet, had nicknamed "Jumby". She begins to suspect that the spirit is haunting her and this is the spirit of her unborn twin, wanting to be born so it can enter the world of the living as evil.

Casey meets Sofi Kozma (whom she later learns is her grandmother). Sofi explains that as a child she had a twin brother, Barto, who died during Nazi experiments conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz during World War II. A dybbuk brought the brother back to life to use as a portal into the world of the living. Kozma killed her twin to stop the spirit, and now it haunts her family for revenge, which is why Casey's mother became insane and committed suicide.

Kozma gives Casey a hamsa amulet for protection, instructs her to destroy all mirrors and burn the shards, and refers her to Rabbi Joseph Sendak, who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove the dybbuk out of her soul. Sendak does not believe Casey's story until he sees a dog with its head twisted upside-down in his synagogue. The dybbuk kills Kozma, then Romy soon after. Casey and her boyfriend Mark both see the spirit after it kills Romy and realize that it's getting stronger.

Sendak, Mark, Episcopal priest Arthur Wyndham, and other volunteers begin the exorcism, but the dybbuk attacks them and several are wounded or killed. The spirit, having possessed the priest, chases Casey and Mark. Mark knocks Wyndham unconscious but gets possessed. Casey stabs Mark in the neck with the amulet. Sendak arrives and he and Casey complete the exorcism. The rite draws the dybbuk out of the human world, but Mark falls and dies during the separation.

Casey mourns her boyfriend but wonders why the dybbuk suddenly became active in her life now and why it didn't attack her earlier. She takes a pregnancy test and learns that she is pregnant with Mark's twins.


Cast



Reception



Box office


In the United States, The Unborn opened at the third position, grossing $19,810,585 averaging $8,405 at 2,357 sites.[6] It spent eight weeks in release and had a final gross of $42,670,410.[3] Worldwide, the film grossed $76,710,644.


Critical response


On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 10% based on 119 reviews, with an average rating of 3.17/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness."[7] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 30 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.[9]


Soundtrack


The Unborn: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2009 (2009-02-24)
GenreSoundtrack
LabelLakeshore Records LKS 340652
ProducerRamin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi chronology
Iron Man
(2008)
The Unborn: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(2009)
Prison Break: Season 3 & 4
(2009)
Ramin Djawadi is the composer of The Unborn score.
Ramin Djawadi is the composer of The Unborn score.

The film score for The Unborn was composed by Ramin Djawadi. The soundtrack album was released on February 24, 2009 via Lakeshore Records label.[10] The main theme"The Unborn " have gained popularity over the years and has been used in various other visual media.

No.TitleLength
1."The Unborn"4:17
2."The Glove"2:07
3."Jumby Wants to Be Born Now"1:24
4."Twins"1:55
5."Mom's Room"2:22
6."Barto"2:12
7."Possessed"3:15
8."Experiments"3:34
9."Breakin' Mirrors"2:18
10."Dybbuk"1:12
11."The Doorway's Open"2:38
12."Sophie's Letter"2:18
13."Medicine Cabinet"1:59
14."Bugs"2:01
15."Book of Mirrors"2:27
16."Circle of Trust"2:47
17."Hex or Schism"4:43
18."Inhabit the Helpless"1:13
19."Sefer Ha-Marot"2:49
20."Casey"1:22

Home media


The Unborn was released on region 1 DVD and Blu-ray July 7, 2009[11] and on June 22, 2009 in Region 2.[12] The DVD includes both the theatrical version (88 minutes) and the unrated cut (89 minutes), as well as deleted scenes. The Blu-ray release contains the DVD features plus two exclusive BD Live features.


References


  1. "The Unborn (2009)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  2. "THE UNBORN (15)". British Board of Film Classification. December 22, 2008. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  3. "The Unborn (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
  4. Unborn - ComingSoon.net Film Database
  5. The Unborn at IMDb
  6. Weekend Box Office Results for January 9-11. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
  7. "The Unborn (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  8. "The Unborn (2009)". Metacritic. CBS Interactive.
  9. "Find CinemaScore" (Type "Unborn" in the search box). CinemaScore. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  10. "The Unborn by Ramin Djawadi". AllMusic. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  11. "The Unborn". Amazon.
  12. http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=900255



На других языках


- [en] The Unborn (2009 film)

[ru] Нерождённый

«Нерождённый» (англ. The Unborn) — фильм ужасов Дэвида Гойера, к которому сам же написал сценарий. Одну из ролей в фильме исполняет Гэри Олдмен, который играет раввина, помогающего девушке, которую мучает еврейский злой дух диббук. Диббук стремится использовать её смерть как способ получить физическое обличье. В качестве продюсеров фильма выступают Майкл Бэй и компания Platinum Dunes. Фильм вышел в американский кинопрокат 9 января 2009 года; прокатом фильма в США занималась компания Rogue Pictures.



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