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The Unborn opens very creepily: The lovely Odette Yustman is jogging when she comes across a strange child, a strange dog, and something even stranger in the woods. And then, to the audiences' disappointment, she wakes up and discovers it was all a dream. Yawn� even primary school children these days are capable of better �

After this, this horror film just deteriorates as it spins an unconvincing story of Odette who is apparently being haunted by the spirit of her twin who died while they were still in the womb. The film throws a maternal suicide, a possessed neighbor, a Jewish myth, the Holocaust, bugs and mirrors into its grab-bag of tricks.

Now all it needs is Madonna dancing to Kabbalah music to complete the plot.

Playing like a Jewish Exorcist, with Gary Oldman as the requisite rabbi, The Unborn is just another B-grade horror movie that the cinemas seem to put out every other week. Which is a surprise, considering that writer-director David S. Goyer helped script great films like The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, the Blade movies and DarkCity.