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Comic Con: David Goyer's Unborn Looks CoolBy Rafe Telsch: 2008-07-30 16:53:11
After reading Ed’s report of the Twilight panel, I was a little surprised to leave the Rogue Pictures presentation of The Unborn with my eardrums intact. After all, the David Goyer movie includes Twilight’s Cam Gigandet among its cast. In fact, Gigandet was even among the cast members present at Rogue Pictures’ panel. Thankfully for my ears, the Twilight fans weren’t.
Goyer presented footage from The Unborn, which gave a brief explanation about the movie in a sort of trailer (although Goyer said it wasn’t a proper trailer and would be cleaned up and rehashed before the public saw it). Odette Yustman (Cloverfield) plays a girl who is babysitting. She hears something on the kid’s monitor and goes to check it out (classic horror moment). She enters and hears the kid talking to someone. When she asks about it, he tells her, ”He’s ready to be born now.” and smacks her upside the head. As a result from the smack, or so we are lead to believe, her eye color in one eye starts to change. She also starts seeing some horrific visions through that eye… yes, I know, it sounds exactly like Jessica Alba’s Eye from earlier this year. In fact, the trailer resembled a mix of The Eye and Shutter, but (and this is exactly how I wrote it in my notes), seriously fucked up. I usually notice how derivative these things can be, but this one looks pretty damn cool, with lots of images of eyes, a twisted old man, an exorcism, and even a spooky shot of the girl lying in bed while a young boy opens up her navel and attempts to climb in. Trust me, it looks much more glorious on screen than I can describe here. The premise is that this girl, Casey, was supposed to be a twin, but the other half died in the womb, therefore he was “unborn”. Now he’s haunting the half that was born and apparently trying to come into the real world somehow. As the trailer asks though, we’ve seen in movies how to fight the living and the dead, but how do you fend off something that doesn’t fit into either category. The thing that both Goyer and the cast (which included Yustman, Gigandet, and Meagan Good) hit on numerous times was how real everything with the making of this movie was, adding to the tone of filming. For instance, the story’s climax calls for an abandoned mental hospital, so Goyer found one - or at least an abandoned wing. The locale was covered in raccoon feces so had to be cleaned and required people in masks most of the time, and sometimes inhabitants of the occupied wings would show up on the set. Lights would flicker without reason, there was an earthquake, and at one point Goyer found himself locked in steam tunnels while scouting locations. Pretty creepy. Goyer also attempted to use practical things whenever possible to keep the atmosphere of the flick. He found a contortionist to play a twisted old man, and brought in potato bugs for one scene, which led to an interesting discussion. Did you know potato bugs bite? Goyer told Yustman they didn’t. She quickly discovered while filming that they did (meanwhile, Goyer was watching one go up and down her shirt on the monitors). The cast agreed that with everything so real while the movie was being filmed, there wasn’t much faking that had to be done. Goyer said the idea is tied into a lot of his favorite horror movies, like The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby and even The Mothman Prophesies and led him to exploring Dr. Mengele’s research on twins and some other wacko stuff. As you might expect, with Goyer’s name attached to such a prominent film currently in theaters, The Dark Knight was brought up. He talked about the difference in making the two movies (The Unborn has something like 1/10th the budget of The Dark Knight), but how he managed to achieve some great things in this picture because of its summer blockbuster cousin - essentially he poached most of the crew from Batman’s latest adventure, and Gary Oldman is a part of The Unborn as well. By no means do I pretend to be a horror aficionado, but I do wind up covering a lot of the genre for the site. I will say based on what I saw at Comic Con, The Unborn as a lot of potential to be cool, and I just might not mind the assignment if I wind up having to give it a review.
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