A Review of "The Unborn" by Joey Lindstrom
(who gave it 7 out of 10)
July 16th 1996

THE UNBORN is a low-budget film starring Brooke Adams and nobody else you ever heard of - with the exception of "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow in a minor part as a medical technician. The story revolves around a genetic researcher who maintains a front as a gynecologist, and begins impregnating women with "new and improved" babies. Trouble is - these babies are evil little critters and most of the prospective mommies don't last too long. Several of the babies don't like waiting for the full 9 months and make dramatic, unexpected, and usually fatal (for the mommy) entrances into the world. After they begin maturing, they exhibit two main characteristics... incredible intelligence, and incredible evil.

This is actually an entertaining movie (if you go in for this sort of thing), despite several flaws. First, they've made inefficient use of the available soundtrack music - the music they've got fits well, but there are a great many silent sections that make you think you're watching some Canadian documentary rather than a feature film. Secondly, some of the special effects are rather... unbelievable, to the point where during one particularly "grisly" murder scene, my room-mate (who was watching with me) burst out laughing - a reaction that, I would guess, was not intended by the movie's producers.

Still - it's a worth-renting flick, and of course if you're a Gary Numan fan it is most definitely worth buying. And, if you like the music here, you'll definitely want to get yourself a copy of HUMAN, an instrumental album based on the same recording sessions.