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The Unborn

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An author's trip to a fertility doctor leaves her pregnant with some sort of bad-seed superbaby.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 06/07/2021
1.5/4
Swiping from both the classy Rosemary's Baby and the cheesy It's Alive, this often risible flick is merely stillborn. Go to Full Review
Mike Massie Gone With The Twins 09/25/2020
5/10
Ironically, all of the projects used for inspiration were infinitely more affecting and memorable - although this film did spawn a very unnoted sequel in 1994. Go to Full Review
David Bax Battleship Pretension 11/02/2018
The Unborn is a culty midnight movie that, like far more such films than we tend to credit, has a brain whose synapses are constantly firing away just beneath all the gore. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/19/2005
2/5
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London Girl W @LondonGirl 1d I have no idea why Brooke Adams allowed herself to act in such an appalling cringeworthy film. It was truly embarrassing to watch. The babies were like Chucky. Yuck! Very poor special effects. See more David T @RT87167258 06/09/2023 a highly underrated b movie from the early 90s! I was so pleased when scream factory released it on blu ray. it was a pity the sequel didn't have brooke adams or any of the original cast it wasn't even made by the same producer Roger corman See more 02/12/2018 Feminazis feature in this , wow Kathy griffin has been like that for a long time See more 01/31/2013 Something is wrong with Virginia's baby... After years of trying, Virginia and her husband resort to an experimental form of in-vitro fertilization, but when the other women from the clinic begin dying under mysterious circumstances, the truth behind Dr. Meyerling's secret procedures can finally be found in THE UNBORN! Brooke Adams stars as our delusional mother-to-be, whose frightening descent in to madness is slightly reminiscent of Catherine Deneuve's performance in REPULSION, though far less effective. The plot clearly combines the body horror themes present in both SCANNERS and (much more apparently) IT'S ALIVE, this time attacking the latent fears behind in-vitro fertilization rather than morning sickness medication or contraceptives. As a Roger Corman production, one can expect an overall cheapness in design, both for the killer fetus and the locales, but first-time director Rodman Flender does what he can to instill a dark, oppressive mood over the picture. THE UNBORN is certainly no masterwork of cinema, but it plays nicely with GRACE, BABY BLOOD, and other like-minded thrillers. See more 07/14/2012 The children...they're coming for us...the want to kill us! See more 06/07/2012 Brooke Adams = awesome.. ..but this movie, not so much. Very '70s ending though.. Basically a science-based Rosemary's Baby. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis An author's trip to a fertility doctor leaves her pregnant with some sort of bad-seed superbaby.
Director
Rodman Flender
Producer
Rodman Flender
Screenwriter
John D. Brancato
Production Co
Concorde-New Horizons, Califilm
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 29, 1991, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 8, 2018
Runtime
1h 24m
Sound Mix
Surround
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