The Unborn (2009)
The movie "The Unborn" opens with Casey Beldon, a young woman in Chicago, who has terrible recurring dreams and visions. Through those nightmares, a boy with piercing blue eyes, a dog with its head upside down, and a fetus in a jar keep the audience in a state of continuous astonishment. Strange things, more frequent and intense, according to Casey, begin changing physically within her, such as the color change in one of her eyes.
One day, while babysitting her neighbor's son Matty, the latter suddenly attacks her with the words: "Jumby wants to be born now." The message is cryptic; Casey starts peering closely at her life. She finds a dark secret concerning her mother, whose twin brother died in her tummy-a pre-birth fact she had never really known. She learns that her family is cursed by a "Dybbuk," which is an evil entity in Jewish mythology, one that has actually attached to her family for many generations.
Casey is extremely troubled and thus looks for Sendak, a rabbi, who tells her that she is an entity that the Dybbuk wants to be reborn into because he uses her as a vessel here on earth.
At present, the spirit-that has been stuck between the two realms since her uncle's passing-wants to enter her body and be reunited with her as a whole. With the on-going events, Casey starts getting visions of her dead mother who had killed herself when she was just a child, and she also finds out that her mother, too, was not at peace being tormented by the spirit of revenge. The plot turns into a whirlwind as her boyfriend, Mark, and her best friend, Romy, get involved helping her respond to supernatural forces that are terrifying her.
They go all over the place, studying how to exorcise the Dybbuk through various rituals and research methods. Casey looks further to find a Holocaust survivor by the name of Sofi Kozma, who had also been affected by the very same spirit during her time in Auschwitz.
She tells Sofi that her twin brother was possessed by the Dybbuk, and to stop it, she had to kill him. Sofi asks Casey to carry out a Jewish exorcism ritual in order to get rid of the spirit. Later, Casey prepares the ritual with Rabbi Sendak, Sofi, and Mark. Overpowered by the Dybbuk, the ritual quickly turned into a chaotic, frightening battle. In the exorcism, Mark gets possessed by the Dybbuk, and in that frenetic fight, Casey is compelled to confront the evil spirit head-on. At the climax of the movie, she breaks herself free from the clutch of Dybbuk and does the ritual but at great losses. Mark, who had by then gotten possessed with the Dybbuk, dies in the process. Now that leaves Casey devastated. On performing the ritual, Dybbuk is finally out from her body and destroyed.
The film's tone is rounded off with an uncanny serenity. Alone, Casey is traumatized by the action and visits a doctor to find out she is pregnant. This provides an overwhelming dread, as she realizes the possible way a Dybbuk might find to return through her unborn child. The last shot is of Casey walking away from the clinic, likely haunted by terror since she struggled so hard to escape; it is thus not over and gives an unsettling feeling that this may continue.
The Unborn (2009) Trailer
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