The UnbornYear: 1991 Director: Rodman Flender Written by: Henry Dominic Threat: Mad Scientist Weapon of Choice: Knitting Needle Based upon: nothing |
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The Unborn II
The tyranist's thoughts
If you are currently pregnant, may soon be pregnant, or just know someone that is
pregnant, perhaps you won't want to watch this one. Not that it is ultimately effective,
rather it brings up a few disturbing possibilities. Oh, and you should probably not watch
this one if your name is Rish Outfield since it contains material likely to render you
senseless with fear of the future. And because it features children. Evil children.
A desperate couple go to an OB/GYN who has a remarkable success rate with
infertile parents. Soon they are expecting a little one, but things get weirder and weirder
(including side-effects of pregnancy that are so ridiculously out of bounds that any
normal human would question the whole thing a lot earlier). As you can imagine
something is wrong.
This was pretty middling for a horror flick and while it wasn't too bad, it wasn't that
great either. The plot falls somewhere between
Sweet Evil and Village of the Damned. The script is decent as
well as the acting. Watch for a barely recognizable Lisa Kudrow. This almost distracted
me enough that I forgot I what I was watching for a moment. Rodman Flender does
his usual capable job. I sometimes wonder what he would be capable of given the
right script and backing.
You might like this one, and you might not. It's kind of hard to tell as it's one of those
mediocre movies that is just a little hard to read. It's probably worth seeing once.
Total Skulls: 18
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Griffin | |
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |