#the unborn

[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Carla Gugino

[weirdlookindog]

Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985) - The Unborn, 1941

[garyoldmansource]

I love him

[marril96]

The Unborn (2009)

[texaschainsawmascara]

Benedetta / The Exorcist / The Crucifixion / lieee - Tori Amos / The Unborn / The Nun (2018) / Saint Maud / The Pope's Exorcist

[renee-writer]

[666frames]

The Unborn (1991)

[theconjurervfx]

The Unborn (2009) dir. David S. Goyer

[madamshogunassassin]

The Unborn (1991)

[horrororman]

More #horror films that were released on March 29th...

#HouseofHorrors 1946.

#Gorgo 1961(US). #scifi #sciencefiction

#TheBirds 1963(Wide).

#AlfredHitchcock

#TheUnborn 1991.

#Classof1999IITheSubstitute 1994(video premiere).

#PanicRoom 2002(US & Canada).

#thriller

[moonsnightowl]

Rabbi Sendak from The Unborn is underrated

[horror-in-my-veins]

Dogs in horror part 8

The Most Dangerous Game 1932-?-Great Dane

The Outer Limits *Sand Kings*-1995-Cowboy-Tibetan Terrier

The Pack 2015-?-Belgian Shepherd

The Pool 2018-Lucky-Old English Sheep Dog

The Rental 2020-Reggie-French Bulldog

The Silence of the Lambs 1991-Precious- Bichon Frise

The Stand 1994-Kojak- Yellow Labrador

The Thing 1982-?-Siberian Husky

The Unborn 2009-Jumby- Bull Terrier

The Voices 2014-Bosco- English Mastiff

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

161. The Unborn (1991)

[garyoldmansource]

Joseph Sendak is such underrated 🔥

[screenrated]

‘The Unborn’ (2009)—A Horror Movie With a Sensible Approach to the Supernatural

Genre | Horror. The horror genre has one goal: scaring the living daylights out of you. To get there, logic and reason usually take a backseat, and we watch helplessly as characters make one bad decision after another. It’s almost like a checklist: splitting up when they shouldn’t, check; investigating creepy noises in the basement, check. Bad decisions drive horror. A story wouldn’t go…

[petty-crush]

“The Unborn” 1991

-a wonderful entry in the “maybe having a baby wasn’t such a good idea” subgenre

-amusingly this is also director Rodman Flender’s first film, so he gets to channel that feeling of nervous excitement and perplexing dread that comes with your first picture

-also having their first shot is cinematographer Wally Pfister, of later “dark knight” trilogy and “inception” fame. He has the goods already, bathing the film in eeriness

-I admit I had to recalculate my brain numerous times during the first ten minutes, reminding myself that Brooke Adams starring and not Karen Allen. Their similarities are surprising

-it occurs to me now how dramatically smart it is to have a pregnant person when featuring a lead often alone by themselves

+it certainly resonates more than with a drunk overcoming addiction. Possibly because the transformation is so visual

-actor James Karen is so good as the doctor who appears pleasant at all times, but is clearly a sinister riptide waiting to erupt

-a big laugh as a woman is seriously skeptical about this lamaze class (the two ladies are not accredited or trained) and when told by the lesbian couple to embrace her femininity, she curtly replies “suck my dick”

-Gary Numan’s score is a supreme addition to the picture. It has a sneaking sense of doom that climbs up our ears

-how uncomfortable in universe must it be to have sex in a wooden rocking chai? Hormones are great

-truthfully I can’t imagine giving up smoking or eating soft cheeses for anyone

-when Allen’s character Virginia is talking about her children’s book of dealing with fear/death/the void, and is suggested to not emphasize that in the interview, I like her response of “but she triumphs over that! She realizes her life is ok”

-later in the actual tv interview, the sheer fake upbeat banality of the host is delightful

-I know others feel different, but put me down in the “crazy” cat lady > exhausted mother scorecard (or better yet a dog)

-Allen is quite good at projecting the fear that her bloodline is defective, and how she worries that she is making something that carries on her worst attributes

-there is nice segment on depression and moving forward as well

-not really explored but nicely hinted at is the divide between wanting a “perfect” child (really, pride for parents) and a child that has physical/learning disadvantages

+ I can imagine a different story about the super solder children fighting the “imperfects”

-this film does not skimp on the gore. The women impaling her own baby bump with a knife is grisly

-more horrifying is the moment where the pregnant lesbian beats her partner to death, and utters the line “you and the baby…I don’t have the love or room for you both”

-I wonder if the part with the cat getting strangled was originally in her sleep or that was added to soften the blow

+her horror when she wakes up is quite effective. As is the raw desperation when she looks for the toy to vainly revive it

-easily one of my favorite moments was when the dad seems the baby and goes “oh my god, it’s hideous!” Then gets stabbed in the eye by the needle

-actor Jeff Hayenga don’t have much to to, but he supplies warmth quite well. His frosty relationship with his mother in law is very satisfying

-the most whacked out moment is when Virginia hears the baby cry (after the abortion), wanders out to the back alley dumpster, and encounters a black little person belly skateboarding

-I love sections like that

-great production design in the lab with the glowing red babies in spheres

+even better when they explode and get mutant baby guts all over the shot doctor

-my only regret is that she should have reality strangled that baby in the sunset scene, but it works well and yeah this era is notorious for sequel teaser stingers

-I had a chuckle when Virginia pulls out a gun. Rare to see a film that is so loved by planned parenthood and the nra

-the great thing about horror is that the heightened situations really bring out the most vivid emotions, and the feelings around birth are really really easy to go delightfully over the top with.

It’s a winning combination.