Let’s get one thing straight: Director Poj Arnon’s 2011 supernatural thriller “The Unborn Child” (aka “2002 Unborn Children”) is more of a “scare film” that it is an actual horror movie. Don’t get me wrong — the idea of Thai teenagers having to undergo illegal abortions is horrifying, but don’t try to hide your agenda inside a genre flick. It reminds me of those American drug films from the 40′s and 50′s, those cheap, low-budget exploitation efforts that attempted to pass along a message whilst wallowing freely in unchecked debauchery. Chop roughly 40 minutes out of the picture and you’d have something you could show to high school students in health class, complete with a tidy little message about safe sex tacked on for good measure. Considering the slug-like pacing and the dozen or so moments where absolutely nothing is happening, viewers probably wouldn’t miss a single thing.
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