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Well, looks like D&D gets a mention with this scary film review about a Demon from the Nazi Holocaust.
"The Unborn is one of those movies evidently conceived by digging a Dungeons & Dragons Fiend Folio out of storage to find, resurrect, and rebrand some long-forgotten bugaboo."
-Village Voice
Cheers,
Zuxius
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Well, looks like D&D gets a mention with this scary film review about a Demon from the Nazi Holocaust.
"The Unborn is one of those movies evidently conceived by digging a Dungeons & Dragons Fiend Folio out of storage to find, resurrect, and rebrand some long-forgotten bugaboo."
-Village Voice
Cheers,
Zuxius
The real question is, did they mean it as a complement, or an insult? Was the rest of the review good or bad?
Director of Brand Strategy
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The real question is, did they mean it as a complement, or an insult? Was the rest of the review good or bad?Well, looks like D&D gets a mention with this scary film review about a Demon from the Nazi Holocaust.
"The Unborn is one of those movies evidently conceived by digging a Dungeons & Dragons Fiend Folio out of storage to find, resurrect, and rebrand some long-forgotten bugaboo."
-Village Voice
Cheers,
Zuxius
Given that it's the Voice, I suspect the writer was once or still is a player, so I don't think it's a knock on D&D. They tend to have hip, nerd-leaning people on their staff. I do think it's a dig at the film though. I wonder if there was a specific fiend s/he had in mind?
Good movie. Predictable about the reason the curse/haunting is happening as well as the ending. Hot actress, though.
According to the New York Times review, the villain is a
I don't recall ever seeing it in D&D, but that monster was statted and used in Palladium's Beyond the Supernatural horror game.
The review I heard for said, "that like its title, the movie never should have been birthed". That was by Jesse Wente, a reviewer for the CBC and my favorite movie reviewer. However, I haven't seen the movie.
The movie was enjoyable and dissappointing in a few aspects. Here's a bit that shouldn't spoil it completely :P
The BAD:
Predictable plot. You will find yourself almost ot the point of screaming at this chick not to do certain blindingly obvious WRONG things to do when faced with spooky events. Plus, you knew 15 minutes into the movie how it was going to end....
The CG was absolutely terrible! During the times of needed CG effects, I felt as if I was transported back to the early days of CG. I think they should have opted for claymation instead.
The GOOD:
I had a screamer sit next to me clutching her boyfriend/husband/thing which I found more entertaining than the scary moments! Since the predictable "boo" moments shown up more often than not, I casually turned to watch the woman with a morbid hillarity just to see her fear. I laughed alot during the movie.
The "old school" special effects. That was a breath of fresh air from all the terrible CG flying around. Pay whoever rigged up the latex and baby props cause that was AWESOME.
Would I recommend this film? Sure, just wait till it comes out on Netflix or Redbox and rent it. It's really not worth the 10+ bucks you will spend watching this in a theatre.
P.S. My favorite line was "Don't listen to that crazy lady! She has "old timers" or something" lmao
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The GOOD:
I had a screamer sit next to me clutching her boyfriend/husband/thing which I found more entertaining than the scary moments! Since the predictable "boo" moments shown up more often than not, I casually turned to watch the woman with a morbid hillarity just to see her fear. I laughed alot during the movie.The "old school" special effects. That was a breath of fresh air from all the terrible CG flying around. Pay whoever rigged up the latex and baby props cause that was AWESOME.
Under "The GOOD" you forgot to add "Odette Yustman".
Mmmmmm....
There is a good review on the movie here. Quite funny :)
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Creative Director
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Just saw this movie yesterday (and as the guy who wrote up the dybbuk for FC1, I was certainly amused and entertained that it was the monster in this movie!). I give the movie a C+ for a grade. It's not TERRIBLE, and it has some neat sequences and a few imaginative special effects, but it's also got a lot of horror movie cliches in there that detract from the plot, poor character building, and at times the plot lumbers along ponderously while at others it moves so fast that events progress almost illogically, as if entire scenes were missing. I'd say that the movie would benefit from having an additional 40 minutes of footage... but the movie's length needed to be a little shorter, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, entertaining enough for a matinee, and amusing in that it's the first of 3 horror movies that start with "UN" that come out this month that I'll probably be seeing (the others being UNderworld 3 and UNinvited).
For my taste, call me the Uninterested.