The Exorcist meets The Dybbuk in The Unborn
| 10:20 AM Jan 9, 2009
If The Unborn isn’t Hollywood’s first Jewish horror movie, it’s got to be the first one in which an exorcism is preceded by the blowing of a shofar.
The film, which opens today, was written and directed by David S. Goyer, who wrote Batman Begins and the Blade trilogy. It follows Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman), ...
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