Clearly you're confusing the children's book with the epic narrative by Tsung Tsu.
Just watched The Unborn. A decent slice of modern horror. Had some great scares and some very Silent Hill-esque demons. Some of the scenes were genuinely creepy, though the atmosphere and build-up hardly leaves you open to any jump scares. Good use of wetas and other such bugs for added creepy-crawliness. They also get points for using legitimate folklore without exaggerating it for the sake of making a movie out of it.
Cons include the cookie cutter characters, the main character being the typical 20-something-year-old Mary Sue girl with a perfect tan from upper middle class suburbia, her forgettable boyfriend whose wardrobe was stolen off a mannequin from American Eagle, and of course, the obligatory ethnic best friend. Vulgar overuse of the "blue filter" you see on horror films these days, there was nothing that wasn't blue I swear... Forgettable soundtrack rife with diluted atmospheric synths, etc.
Gary Oldman had a cameo as a rabbi who performs the girl's exorcism. An underwhelming performance on his part, but then again, his character was pretty boring too.
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