The Unborn

Odette Yustman plays Casey, a well-heeled young suburbanite who’s been having bad dreams. The night terrors begin to infest her waking life when a whey-faced grade-schooler cryptically intones: “Jumby wants to be born now.” Trying to figure out what that means leads Casey and The Unborn into a thicket of exposition involving suicidal mothers, mad geneticists and Jewish folklore. The titular reference to from-the-womb haunting is only an afterthought; The Unborn belongs to the durable exorcism subgenre, complete with a climactic exorcism-by-committee that plays like a pan-denominational, P.C. update of The Exorcist‘s implicit verification of Catholicism’s One True Faith. Tune out the bombast and start wondering where to eat after the movie.