Infertile writer Virginia Marshall (Brooke Adams) and her husband Brad (Jeff Hayenga) visit a fertility clinic run by Dr. Richard Meyerling (James Karen), who guarantees that his IV procedure will enable them to have a baby. The technique works as promised but, as her pregnancy progresses, Virginia begins to believe that Mayerling has done something terrible to her unborn baby...
I'll cut to the chase: this film isn't great, but it does feature an aggressive animatronic newborn baby grabbing a knitting needle and stabbing its father in the eye, and for that reason alone I'm glad I watched it. Did I mention that the baby was illegally aborted and retrieved by its mother from a dumpster, 'cos that happens too! Oh, and we get a pretty hot sex scene involving a rocking chair, and there's a tiny role for a pre-fame Lisa Kudrow.
My problem with The Unborn is that the majority of scenes leading up to the arrival of the killer sproglet - Virginia's pregnancy - aren't all that engrossing (I wouldn't say it feels like nine months, but it certainly drags, with pointless guff involving a pair of lesbian pre-natal class teachers and more padding about Virginia appearing on a TV chat show). Director Rodman Flender rehashes stuff seen in many an earlier horror movie (Rosemary's Baby, I Don't Want to Be Born, It's Alive) and the film offers very few genuine surprises for seasoned horror fans.
I'll cut to the chase: this film isn't great, but it does feature an aggressive animatronic newborn baby grabbing a knitting needle and stabbing its father in the eye, and for that reason alone I'm glad I watched it. Did I mention that the baby was illegally aborted and retrieved by its mother from a dumpster, 'cos that happens too! Oh, and we get a pretty hot sex scene involving a rocking chair, and there's a tiny role for a pre-fame Lisa Kudrow.
My problem with The Unborn is that the majority of scenes leading up to the arrival of the killer sproglet - Virginia's pregnancy - aren't all that engrossing (I wouldn't say it feels like nine months, but it certainly drags, with pointless guff involving a pair of lesbian pre-natal class teachers and more padding about Virginia appearing on a TV chat show). Director Rodman Flender rehashes stuff seen in many an earlier horror movie (Rosemary's Baby, I Don't Want to Be Born, It's Alive) and the film offers very few genuine surprises for seasoned horror fans.