* 1 Plot synopsis* 2 Cast* 3 Reception* 4 Soundtrack * 5 Rating* 6 References* 7 External linksPlot synopsisThe Unborn is a supernatural thriller that draws upon the legend of a dybbuk, a malevolent spiritthat refuses to leave the human world and inhabits the body of a person. Protagonist CaseyBeldon (Odette Yustman) is plagued by merciless dreams, visions of strange looking dogs, andan evil child with bright blue eyes. The movie starts with Casey jogging, when suddenly, there isa blue glove on the trail. She picks it up and turns around to see a boy, with a blue glove missingfrom his left hand. After Casey blinks, the boy turns into a dog with a mask on. The dog walksinto the forest, with Casey after it. Casey finds the mask on the ground, with the string buried inthe dirt. She digs it up, and finds a glass jar with an unborn baby inside it. Suddenly, the unborn baby opens its eyes.The next scene cuts to Casey baby-sitting Matty, her neighbor's son. He is upstairs, supposedlytaking a nap. Casey is downstairs talking on the phone to her best friend Romey (Meagan Good).Suddenly, there is a voice that says "Jumby wants to be born now," on the baby monitor used for Matty's baby sister. After yelling, "Matty, are you awake?" Casey goes upstairs to check on them.Matty was standing over the baby's crib, holding a mirror to the baby's face. After being hit withthe mirror, Casey's eyes begin to change color (see Tetragametic chimerism and Heterochromia)and she learns she had a twin brother who died in the womb. Casey begins to suspect that thespirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin, being possessed by a dybbuk, wanting to be bornso it can transfer to the world of the living.Casey meets a woman named Sofi, who is revealed to be her grandmother. Sofi explains that shehad a twin brother who was killed in Nazi experiments in Auschwitz when they were both justchildren (presumably having been experimented on by Josef Mengele, as Sofi describes him aslooking like an angel and Mengele was often referred to as the Angel of Death). The boy was brought back to life by a dybbuk who intended to use his body as a portal into the world of theliving. Sofi killed her twin to stop the dybbuk, and now it haunts her family for revenge. Sofirefers Casey to Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove thedybbuk.The exorcism is performed, but things go awry as the dybbuk tries to stop Rabbi Sendak fromcompleting the ritual. Several people are wounded and others are killed. The exorcism is finallycompleted, and the dybbuk is drawn back from the human world. Casey's boyfriend is severelywounded and later dies with Casey by his side. Casey mourns him and she soon finds out thatshe is pregnant by him, with twins.Cast* Gary Oldman as Rabbi Joseph Sendak * Odette Yustman as Casey Beldon* Ethan Cutkosky as Barto* Cam Gigandet as Mark * Meagan Good as Romey
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