Cries of the Unborn (2017) User Reviews

Unbearably Awful

[NickGagnon942 · 1/10 · 1 August 2019]

First off Im always on the look out for the bizarre, disturbing and most controversial films I can find. I dont think I can top this one. And oddly enough it stars the late Robert Loggia! Well kinda. He is advertised in the film but it all footage from another film.

The film is called Cries of the Unborn which is a semi sequel to The Life Zone. The film makes zero sense in contrast to the first film and leaves many errors in the film as it stands. The Film has a 1.3 on IMDB as of now. Anything above a 1 is too high. So what makes this film so messed up? The film is about a group of people who kidnapped a young woman who was going to have an abortion. Now on trail the group has admitted their crime. Why this is a trial after the confession I do not know. The jury on the trial talks the case out and watches footage from the kidnapping (made up of footage from The Life Zone). Also they mentally toured her and inspected her area. and debate if the kidnappers should be set free. Here is where it gets twisted. Regardless on your feelings on abortion this film makes a deliberate statement and message that kidnapping a person is alright in this circumstance. They also try to justify what they did. Again they abducted a woman for 7 months and mentally tortured her. And this film actually takes the side of the abductors! Cries of the Unborn: The film that says kidnapping is perfectly fine in certain circumstances.

This is one the craziest most damaging films imaginable. Im ranking this as the second worst film I have ever seen.

The Life Zone Redux.

[Java_Joe · 1/10 · 29 October 2019]

This movie is bad for two reasons. The first is it's simply a bad movie from start to finish. But the second reason is that it's a kinda remake of "The Life Zone". If you haven't seen "The Life Zone" then don't bother because it's equally bad. What this movie does is takes a slightly different approach to it and leaves out some of the elements including the weak twist ending.

Seven years ago three women were kidnapped from an abortion clinic and were forced to give birth. The people that did this finally admit their guilt and the whole thing goes to trial. It's revealed that two of the women that were kidnapped were actually in on the whole thing. In other words all of this, including keeping them hostage for seven months and forcing them to give birth was done for the sake of one woman and one woman only.

And yet throughout it all, this is painted as a good thing. These people did all this to ensure one baby was to be born and for this they feel they should be rewarded. They mentally tortured a woman for seven months and forced her to give birth. In what universe is this a good thing? Remember free will? Obviously the filmmakers don't.

This is just another anti-abortion propaganda movie that thinks it's more clever than it actually is.

Reduced, Reused, Recycled, Repurposed

[floraposteschild · 1/10 · 5 May 2018]

When last we left the horror movie The Life Zone, the bad forced-mother who did not accept Jesus SPOILERS was in HELLL!!, sentenced to an eternity of giving birth -- not unlike some religious women. END SPOILERS But psych! Forget that ending, because footage from the Life Zone is repurposed into the legal thriller, if you want to call it that, Cries of the Unborn. Turns out not three, but only one woman was taken from an abortion clinic and forced to give birth -- the other two were only there to persuade her that her kidnapping was a good thing. But was there a crime committed? You could say that the woman kidnapped the fetus in her womb, and really, can you kidnap a kidnapper? And no one knows when life begins, except that "at conception" is the right answer, so.... Never mind the defendants have confessed; twelve angry idiots try to hash these matters out. The character "Barry" is played by the film's writer/director/genius/real life former judge Ken Del Vecchio. His IMDb profile describes his films as "multiple Academy Award and Emmy winners and nominees." No.

Disgusting excuses made to even be reasonably heard out.

[HorrorFanNurse · 1/10 · 26 May 2021]

I wanted to vomit throughout most of this movie. Thankfully, the justice system, although faulty, doesn't operate on false sciences and skewed beliefs. I am actively religious and this movie was sickening. There were no valid point or excuses made and the fact that they added the whole kidnapping/legal scenario was honestly scary, in that they were trying to validate what the "culprits" even did to the main character in question. Weird and pointless. No self respecting network should carry this mess!

Blatant and false propaganda

[bryankodo · 1/10 · 23 April 2019]

A truly disgusting display of prejudice and ignorance. When conservative thinkers dismiss the notion that those like them want to force women to be nothing more than baby making machines forced to give birth, a slave in their own bodies, the handmaiden's tale come to life, it's movies like these that show their platitudes to be false.

A Fetus Is Not A Baby. regardless of how often you lie about it. It doesn't make it true.

Something being alive does not make it murder to kill it. Cows are alive, spiders are alive, trees are alive, tumors are alive. Being "life" means nothing, it's whether or not you are sentient, and a tumor growing in your body with the barest minimum (or none at all depending on it's stage of development) of brain activity isn't. If you'd actaully care to look at an evidence of when it becomes sentinet it would be well after birth, but legally it's much easier to just set it as birth.

It isn't "saving" a life if you do nothing for it after it's born. Women get abortons for a number of reasons and it's never a decision taken lightly. A poor household or young mother is unlikely to adequately raise a child. And forcing them to bear children (A violation of their basic human rights to have control over their own bodies) when you're against any form of financial help to raise the child (including if it were to be given up to foster care or adoption), and any form of birth control to help prevent unwanted children, is hypocrisy at it's finest. And adoption is not the answer either. There are far more unwanted children than there are people willing to adopt, most get left out in the cold (figuratively speaking for those of you too dumb to get metaphors). And our foster system is an underfunded overstraigned nightmare for most children.

The premise of this movie is an abortion of any form of intelligent thought or reason. An appeal to emotion (namely fear and disgust) to take away the rights of others

Good message!

[mse1576 · 9/10 · 22 December 2021]

It's probably not Citizen Kane, but the pro aborts trashing the film force me to give it a good review. And some talk about free choice. What about the choice taken away from the baby?

Powerful look at the ethics of abortion

[michaelflafond · 9/10 · 19 April 2022]

This thoughtful drama seems to be inspired by '12 Angry Men' as what at first seems a clear case for a guilty verdict becomes increasingly questionable as the jurors deliberate and consider all aspects of the evidence. Some added supernatural touches make it all the more interesting. Good script and performances all around, but the special effects are limited by the size of the budget.