Born (2007) Online

A man comes to the office of the psychiatric Dr. Sammael (Joan Severance) claiming to be the demon Asmodeus (Kane Hodder), the torturer of the 13th level of the hell, and he would like to tell weird things. He tells that he had made a deal with Lucifer to become human again. He should knock-up his virgin sister Mary Elizabeth (Alison Brie) on the day that their mother died and she should kill six people and deliver the Anti-Christ, and then he would escape from the pit and reborn. When Mary Elizabeth gets pregnant, her stressed and abusive sister Catherine (Denise Crosby) does not believe that she is virgin, but their father and former obstetrician Albert Martino (James Callahan) examines his daughter and sees her intact hymen. Meanwhile the Church discovers the truth about Mary Elizabeth's pregnancy and sends the priest and former military Father Anthony (Eddie Velez) to spy Mary Elizabeth. She is dominated by the fetus and forced to kill a truck driver, Lars (Jorg Sirtl), who is the lover of her tenant and friend Jennifer (Azalea Davila), and Jennifer herself and eat their hearts and drink their bloods, but she believes that she has nightmares. However during the ultrasound, she realizes that she is carrying a monster and she asks her father to stop her pregnancy. But it is too late.

The awful "Born" is a B-movie (actually a Z-movie) that believes that is a great movie. The result is a pretentious and disappointing production, with an incoherent and absurd story without humor and terrible acting and direction. The plot is a complete mess: there is a priest that is a hit-man and former soldier; a demon in existential crisis going to a psychiatric; a father that examines the virginity of his daughter; two female-demons (succubus?) that stand naked like a statue with both hands covering their sexes; a character that is a slut, and only exists to expose her beautiful body. There are many scenes with free and cheap nudity. But the worst is the acting: the unknown lead actress Alison Brie is histrionic, with ridiculous voices and grimaces. Sorry, Ms. Alison Brie, but I hated your annoying performance. I have not recognized Joan Severance, who has a good performance, since I still had the image of her youth. Denise Crosby performs a hateful character and like everybody, she got older but she is still a good actress. I believe that if the writer and the director had included some dark humor and assumed that this movie is a B-movie, the story might have worked better and better. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "O Anti-Cristo" ("The Anti-Christ")

I just watched that movie, and was pretty disappointed. I didn't expect much to begin with as the premise of the movie doesn't suggest greatness anyway. Sadly, it doesn't even manage to deliver just as stupid entertainment. The main problem is probably the acting. While I've seen far worse actors in far worse movies, the story would require some people to act out as violent maniacs, some others as people caught a in really stressing predicament, and they fail to deliver that. Although I watched the German release I watched with the original audio, so it's definitely not just bad voice-overs or anything like that. Added to that, the German DVD release seems to be cut, the killings are all pretty much left out, meaning that except for a few semi-gory scenes closer to the end the German release doesn't deliver as a movie for "gore-hounds", either. Can't comment on that for other releases of course. The plot has some stupid moments thrown in here and there and the beginning is just hilarious (ever heard of a demon visiting a psychiatrist?). Too bad the movie takes itself far too seriously, if it was filmed as a horror-comedy and changed a bit here and there accordingly it might have worked better. The ending is just a huge disappointment.

If you've got really nothing better to do and just can't stand the boredom anymore you might (and it's really a weak "might") consider this movie. If there's anything else available to watch or do: Pick that alternative.

I totally disagree with other votes against this movie!

If you take it seriously, there are not many horror movie these days portraying about pregnancy(pregnant woman), which is a sensitive subject! They may receive bad critics or good one, but it is a sensitive section!

If you do enjoy Inside(2008) and Baby Blood(1995) then this movie is yours.

It tells a story about a 21-year-old virgin girl who went to bed and woke up pregnant. There's a few sex/nude scene which involved the main character but was limited to prevail the story. And we do need to pay much attention to pregnant girl who does a brilliant job (i guess she is pregnant for real?!) It's not a copy of Rose Mary's baby thanks to good performance! Although everyone keeps thinking about Rose Mary when it comes to this field! The ending was good too!

I'm not sure what I was expecting but I did think the 'plot' sounded good. Overall I was very disappointed with this movie. The acting was terrible, the scripting wasn't much better and the effects were even worse.

I stayed till the end as I am not one to quit half way through. This movie felt like it had been on for four hours, and not enjoyable ones. I am not sure about the horror genre, I would place it in more comedy horror - even though I am not sure the parts which were funny were actually meant as comedy.

Very disappointing and it is only getting such a high rating from me as the plot of the movie is a great idea, if done well.

Born combines a variety of ideas into one old-fashioned B-horror movie. There's a demon visiting a psychiatrist, a virgin pregnant by a demon, the same virgin fighting split personality- her innocent self and the demon taking over, a priest hit-man, an ultra-religious sister trying to keep the innocent girl on the straight path after their mother dies. And there's a surprising twist at the end.

The performances are pretty good. Joan Severance is excellent. Denise Crosby is equally successful at portraying a nasty character. But Alison Brie impresses playing her role, two roles actually, with bravura. Kane Hodder was somewhat uneven, but it's good to see the legend play a significant role where he even gets to be funny at times.

The CGI effects are pretty bad but fortunately not used a lot. Much better are the real prosthetic and other special effects. There's neat scene of a pentagram on the floor with talking decapitated heads at each point of the star.

Overall an fun little movie that suffers at times from a slower pace. But at a time when horror movies are either lame PG-13 sequels or direct-to-video C-budget movie experiments, this is more akin to the 80s B-horror movies; not perfect but with everything a horror fan likes: violence, gore, nudity, humor.

Just to save you money and time I will go ahead and tell you that this movie is absolutely not worth the match and gas it would take to burn it. Don't waste your time. As a matter-of-fact you would be better off forgetting you ever thought about watching it. I have seriously seen better B movies in a language that I can't understand. Who ever gave permission for this to be made needs to be sewed. The only positive thing I can say for this movie is that with a new script and the right director and actors it could be a great story. Let me break it down; A virgin gets pregnant by a demon, the baby while inside her womb wants to feed on people. They try to make up for the fact that this is possibly the worst movie ever made with cursing and pointless nudity. All in all Totally not worth the dollar it took me to rent it.

This movie was by far the best ever... I think whoever shot it with the Sony hand-held camera was a genius and the special effects were spectacular especially the chicken breast heart...thank goodness this movie only cost me a dollar to rent.. Also the green toxic boob discharge was amazing......I could have shot this movie with my friends in high school. .................................................................... I would not recommend this movie to anyone ... you might want to kill yourself instead of watching it..... I also feel like this was a move for porn stars trying to make it into the legitimate movie business............give it to her Larz

Born starts as a demon torturer from the 13th level of hell named Asmodeus (Kane Hodder) request to speak to Dr Sammael (Joan Severance) a psychiatrist, he admit that he is a demon from hell & that Satan stole his soul & that they have agreed to a deal in which he gets it back & for him to become human again. Asmodeus tells Dr. Sommael that he raped his sister Mary Elizabeth (Alison Brie) on Earth & got her pregnant, still a virgin Mary Elizabeth's family believe that it's some miraculous act of God & possibly the reincarnation of Christ but Asmodeus knows different. The demon baby is due to be born on the 1st November, an evil Satnatic festival called the Day of the Dead. Leading up to that time the demon baby needs six sacrifices & possesses Mary Elizabeth & makes her kill in order to get them. Is Asmodeus crazy? Can Dr. Sommael help him? Or is there some truth to his bizarre story?

Produced & directed by Richard Friedman I am not entirely sure that Born was made as a comedy horror but if it wasn't then it sure does a good impression of being one & an entertainingly daft one at that. According to the IMDb there's a version of Born which runs 105 minutes, one which runs 107 minutes & the so-called 'original version' runs 118 minutes, I definitely saw the two hour cut & even though I wonder what the shorter version has cut out I have no real desire to find out. The script by Alex D'Lerma who also stars in the film as Father Nick the murdering Priest plays like various religious themed supernatural horror films, the likes of Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Omen (1976, 2006) & The Exorcist (1973) all readily spring to mind while watching Born & you can clearly see their influence on it. Even at almost two hours I quite liked Born, it just about kept my interest, the plot keeps moving & I didn't find it boring either. There are some truly bizarre & oddball moments in Born, a demon from hell seeking psychiatric help, said demon raping his sister, Mary Elizabeth's strict religious sister, her slutty friend who works on sex chat lines, Mary Elizabeth's nipples oozing green goo, a former assassin turned Priest, an albino graveyard caretaker, a few off the wall twists, cannibalism, heart removals, demonic possession, Satanic rituals, sex, castration & Joan Severance as Satan, what more do you want? The film is a bit of a mess but it's a funny & often amusing mess which kept me entertained for a couple of hours, Born isn't any sort of masterpiece but I found it fun & somewhat likable for all it's faults & in spite (or maybe because of) it's strangeness.

Director Friedman does alright, the film looks a little cheap & there are some really sloppily edited & put together scenes (at the start in the graveyard there's a shot of the sky full of clouds as lightening strikes but in the next shot on the ground the sky is perfectly blue, the car crash looks poor too) but that adds to the light hearted tone, had Born taken itself seriously then these flaws would be much harder to forgive. There's some decent gore here, from decapitated head, headless torso's, ripped out hearts, a bit of cannibalism & blood drinking, a scene in which Mary Elizabeth's stomach is sliced open & someone has their throat bitten out. The film isn't shot with any great style or flair.

According to the IMDb Born had a budget of about $5,000,000 which I find impossible to believe, there's no way this cost that much & I don't care what anyone says. If it did cost that much then I really can't see where all the money went since the entire film virtually takes place in the same house. The cast plays it up & seem to be having fun, I quite liked Joan Severance in this although I have never seen her so blonde, horror film regular Kane Hodder has a bigger role than he normally does while Alison Brie puts in a spirited & fairly likable performance.

Born isn't the total disaster I was expecting, I usually despise these low budget shot on a camcorder type horror films but there was a something about this one. I don't think I could recommend it since it's an acquired taste but for what it is I quite liked it.

Seriously, all these Satan comes to Earth movies always involve the Catholics. Why doesn't Lucifer ever mess with the other denominations.

The plot is that Asmodeus (Played by former Jason Vorhees Kane Hodder) has a plot to become human (but wasn't he always a demon) by getting this young girl who is his sister pregnant with his child. Except maybe she isn't his sister. The plot isn't clear on this, and they inter-splice these scenes where he is seeing a shrink about his problem.

The lead girl gets pregnant while still a virgin, with an incredibly creepy scene of her father giving her a gynecological exam to prove her hymen is still intact.... Eeeewwwwww. Her sister (played by a washed up and looking much worse for wear Denise Crosby) concludes that this is a sign from heaven. Praise be!

Well, the demon baby takes mom's body for a joy ride and picks off, in order, a truck driver, her friend's boyfriend and her friend, all being watched by an ex-military priest whose mission is to kill the baby when it is born. We discover that Asmodeus is actually a Catholic Cardinal who is running the whole thing.

The ending is pretty much incomprehensible, and if you could make it that far straight through, you have a stronger stomach than I did. (I paused the film a couple of times, it was so awful.)