Film Review: The Unborn 1991! Thumbs Up from Nancy Garrido!

Film Review The Unborn 1991


As being that the topic of horror films involving rape by monsters and/or impregnation with monster fetus as a re-occurring film element. I also wrote about Phillip Garrido’s music. I learned of the film the Unborn, which involves impregnation with monster children (not monster rape, though) from an interview with Phillip Garrido’s kidnap and rape victim Jaycee Dugard in which she mentioned it as a film Nancy Garrido was into! If you watch the film with the details of the Dugard kidnapping case in mind, the connection is quite striking.
Another interesting little detail about The Unborn. You know Gary Numan, the electronic music pioneer from the 80’s? The guy who did “Cars”? What was he doing in the early 90’s? He did the soundtrack to The Unborn!
The premise of this film is that this couple that wants to have a kid go to this doctor that’s a fertility expert. The thing is, he’s not really an gynecologist, he’s a geneticist. The friends that referred the doctor had a retarded child, then a genius child thanks to the good doctor. The genius kid of course kills the retarded kid!
See what I was saying about the Garrido thing? Very striking.
Gary Numan’s soundtrack work on this one is quite effective. There’s even a bit about the new age tapes the doctor gives her having subliminal messages in them, presumably the music for the creepy New Age tapes was Gary Numan’s work.
The chick goes crazy too. The fetus has psychic powers and no good intentions. This is a very sinister film little film. The main female character is a children books writer, so she flips out on a TV interview and then starts bleeding from the uterus on air! This film even has the lesbian couple that does her birthing class killing each other randomly.
The one serious flaw with the film though which is that the special effects for the killer baby at the end are wretched. That could just be looked at to some audiences as comic relief though.
This film might have disappeared into obscurity, but because Gary Numan did the soundtrack and he’s had a continuous cult following for years and years, I think this film will have a continued cult status. I also think that’s true because of the connection to the Garrido case. This Sunday’s ABC interview with Jaycee Dugard in which she mentioned the film was watched by millions of people. The film may have a resurgence of interest