The Unborn

Somewhere between Nazi twin experiments and the ten-strong-circle Kabbalah influenced exorcism The Unborn hooked me. That's not good or bad, it's just weird. Waltzing a thin line between the PG-13 and R rated gulf this evil twin dybbuk monster movie starts to pay off around the time Gary Oldman, playing the world's easiest going rabbi, shows off, er up to help young adult hottie Casey (Odette Yustman).
As written and directed by David Goyer it feels like the movie he got to helm as pay off for his work on The Dark Knight (story credit). Like TDK The Unborn takes place in Chicago and features Oldman. Other established thesps pop up like Jane Alexander and James Remar, and Carla Gugino to balance the now factor of Yustman and her BFF Meagan Good. The woman next to me screamed twice but those were the easy scares that Goyer gets by quick cuts to a freaky deaky kid with strange eyes hopping out of a mirror. More subtle is the creepy atmosphere that surrounds the translation of a really old book in Hebrew that provides a recipe to banish the dybbuk demon.
So do the dogs with upside down heads and mirror reflections seem unrealistic? Not really, they exist in the supernatural world Casey has been allowed to see. What got me was how easy Casey was able to walk the ancient, large and obviously rare exorcism text out of a library by merely putting it under her arm and strolling out.