Unborn

Original title: The Unborn

1991
R
1h 23m

IMDb RATING

4.8/10

1.7K

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Drama Horror Sci-Fi Thriller

A couple struggling to conceive visit a miracle doctor as a last hope for having a child. The wife gets pregnant, but after the initial joy comes horror, as she slowly discovers the nightmar... Read allA couple struggling to conceive visit a miracle doctor as a last hope for having a child. The wife gets pregnant, but after the initial joy comes horror, as she slowly discovers the nightmarish truth behind the doctor's success.A couple struggling to conceive visit a miracle doctor as a last hope for having a child. The wife gets pregnant, but after the initial joy comes horror, as she slowly discovers the nightmarish truth behind the doctor's success.

Director
- Rodman Flender
Writers
- John Brancato
- Michael Ferris
Stars

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IMDb RATING

4.8/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Rodman Flender
Writers
- John Brancato
- Michael Ferris
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 nominations total

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Photos34

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Trivia
Gary Numan did the soundtrack for this movie. Music can be found on Gary's 'human' cd.some of these later became songs on Gary Numan's next album 'outland'in 1991.

Goofs
Virginia fires a pistol until it's empty, then we hear two clicks. These clicks would be heard if the gun were a revolver, as the barrel rotates and the hammer falls on an empty chamber. A semi-automatic pistol would not make a sound, as the slide would be stuck in the open position as would the hammer.

Quotes
[requesting a sperm sample]
Dr. Richard Meyerling: I hope you're in the mood

Connections
Featured in 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days: The Unborn (1991) (2019)

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Featured review

6/10

Oh no! Evil Geneticist?

A couple (Brooke Adams and Jeff Hayenga) who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body.

Always nice to see James Karen ("Return of the Living Dead") in another genre film. Also, bit parts from both Lisa Kudrow (pre-"Friends") and the perpetual D-lister Kathy Griffin. Add to that Roger Corman as producer, and you have a few choice names...

The concept of the villain being an evil geneticist connected to the Human Genome Project... not sure if that is brilliant, silly or inadvertent fear-mongering. Looking back twenty years, we now know the Human Genome Project was completely safe and taught us many valuable things (and I did not know it used any human subjects). Maybe in 1991 they did not understand it?

The film seems to be strongly influenced by "Rosemary's Baby", as it follows a pregnant mother with who-knows-what growing inside her. Of course, this film is not about satanists... at least, not that I know of.