Product Details

• Actors: Alison Brie, Kane Hodder, Denise Crosby
• Directors: Richard Friedman
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lionsgate
• DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0021FP3JU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,373 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty-one-year-old virgin, and wakes up the next morning...pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill...for the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth’s dark transformation is controlled by her unborn demon child’s deadly evil cravings. Once the child is born, there will be hell on earth. From this apparent immaculate conception comes edge-of-your-seat terror.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars so-so, June 17, 2009

By	P. Mann (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

How do you go from Hannah Montana to giving birth do a demon child for Satan? That's what Alison Brie has done. In "Born," she is the pawn in an attempt by one of hell's demons (Kane Hodder) to regain his soul. Essentially, if he can get his sister pregnant with a demon child, have her kill six people, and then present the child to Satan, he believes he will be freed from the thirteenth level of hell, where he enjoys employment as a torturer.

The first part of his deal works, and soon Mary Elizabeth (Brie) is pregnant, having gained 15 pounds during the first night. She is, it is verified, a virgin, and so the church sends a priest to spy on her. Gradually, her fetus grows (as we see repeatedly on ultrasound), and Mary Elizabeth begins to claim the victims her fetus requires. Meanwhile, two blond twins (Julie Costello and Shawnie Costello wander about silently, wearing silver gowns in the first half of the movie and nothing in the second half. No, their presence is never really explained.

"Born" is a lackluster addition to the long list of movies featuring demon children (and other things that shouldn't come out of humans), a list that includes The Omen and sequels, It's Alive and sequels, Begotten, First Born, Rosemary's Baby, Masters of Horror - Pro-Life, and many others. I'd recommend going with one of the films in this list.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Labor Pains, August 22, 2009

By	Eric M. Milillo "Emills86" (West Islip, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having a baby is no easy task. If your baby happens to be a demon child, you can't even imagine what you're in for. "Born" is a D-level horror film that attempts to capture that experience.

A young virgin awakes one morning and is miraculously pregnant with a demon child. The father of said devil baby is one of hell's demons, who needs the child to be born so he can regain his soul. What unfolds during the hour and forty minutes of labor (pun intended) is never truly explained.

"Born" is a mediocre horror film at best. The potential was there for this film to be much better than average. But, the poorly written dialogue, sub par acting and numerous plot holes were to overwhelming to go unnoticed.

1.0 out of 5 stars Should Never Have Been BORN, September 30, 2009

By	Terry D. Robertson "Terry D. Robertson" (Asheville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

As with most of today's movies in the horror genre, this one has plenty of gore for fans. The storyline was not as predictable as I thought, but the acting destroyed the movie for me; along with the cheesy special effects. Kane Hodder today's superstar boogeyman, was at least interesting to watch without a hockey mask or distorted makeup. The lead, Alison Brie, just isn't strong enough to carry the movie, particularly a bad one. Veteran Denise Crosby has done better work. Actually, she is the only good performance in the movie next to Hodder.

I don't recommend this film. The explicit use of gore is used as a substitute for tension and interest from a shoddy script. The scenes with the heroine talking for the demonic baby are unintentionally campy and hilarious.

I'm glad I rented it for only a buck. Otherwise, I would have felt really cheated.

I gave it one star because Amazon has nothing lower. A total zero.