Unborn: Creepy Little Kids Equals Good Horror Movie?

Recently I saw the new horror flick, The Unborn.  The basic plot: a young woman (Odette Yustman) finds herself constantly followed around by a pale, blue eye boy who appears in random reflections and settings.  She is afraid he is the ghost of her twin brother that died while her mom was pregnant, so she goes looking for answers.

I watched this movie very closely and to be honest, I still don’t fully “get it”.  The little boy who follows the young woman around is revealed to be the ghost of a twin brother who died in the holocaust years ago (who would have guessed?) but there is also another creepy little boy, whose creepiness goes unexplained.  I often confused the two of them.  Random scenes of distorted people creeping around on all fours, dogs with bizarre masks on, and of course, that creepy little boy, continue throughout the movie but remain unexplained.  In the final scene, an unconventional rabbi performs some sort of spell to rid the young woman of the demon that has been following her, only for her to discover at the end of the movie that the demon has finally “won”.  (I won’t reveal exactly how she figures this out, just in case you were actually still planning on watching this.)

First of all, Yustman’s acting could be compared to a high-schooler in the annual school drama.  She is one-note and completely boring.  She was clearly chosen for her good looks, which are revealed on a completely unnecessary level, showing her in her underwear far too often to be anything else than a ploy to reel in drooling thirteen-year-old boys.  Her characterless boyfriend and best friend don’t add to the movie (the best friend is black, and of course, dies first.  When will people realize that is getting old?) and throughout the entire movie, we’re thinking, “OK, whose twin brother is that, the holocaust victim or the main character wearing see-through white panties?”

The twist ending is the only decent part of the entire movie, and even then, I’m being generous.  Although the randomly scary scenes are frightening, they don’t make sense with the rest of the movie, and simply seem like some horrifying thoughts that the director once had, so he decided to sprinkle them throughout the film just for kicks.  However, given that this movie is not attempting to be a classic, (or at least I hope not!) I would recommend watching it if you are looking to see some scary images and see a shocking ending, especially if you don’t mind being a little confused throughout the entire film.