Movie: The Unborn
“While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon has a dreadful nightmare involving a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy over the phone. Casey is haunted by this boy, and when she goes to the ophthalmologist, he asks if she has a twin brother or sister. She asks her father and discovers that her mother lost a son that died in the womb. Casey suspects that she is haunted by the spirit of her brother. She finds a letter addressed to a woman called Sofi Kozma and a creepy picture at home that belonged to her mother. She goes with Romy to a retirement home to meet Sofi, a survivor of the experiments during the Holocaust. But Sofi tells Casey that she had never met her mother and later calls Casey to tell her she is in great danger. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”
- Director: David S. Goyer
- Release Date: 12 March 2009 (Germany)
- Run Time: 88 min | 89 min (unrated version)
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror , Thriller
- MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references.
Tagline: Evil will do anything to live.
Trivia: Rabbi Sendak’s name is a reference to Maurice Sendak, writer of children’s horror classic “Where the Wild Things Are”.
Goofs: Anachronisms: The photo that shows the main characters uncle is a Polaroid, however Polaroids weren’t invented until 1948. Her grandmother, Sofi says he died in 1944 in Auschwitz.
“Based on a true story, The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. Written by Lionsgate”
