Have some `un' in the New Year :o)

I’m sorry, the above post title is a tad boring but you’d be surprised how difficult it is to think of something about two horror movies with `un` in the title. Both of these flicks are out early next year and (if their trailers are anything to go by) are likely to scare your pants off. Below is a quick rundown:
The Unborn

Try and push aside your first thoughts when you see this movie poster. My thoughts were somewhere along the lines of "(sigh) where are her pants? Do possessed people not where pants now?". I mean seriously. However, of the two 'un' choices The Unborn definitely looks scarier and has the writer/director caliber to back it up. The writer of Batman Begins and Blade, David S Goyer gives us a new take on the whole exorcism thing. Keeping with the sibling theme of the film mentioned below, The Unborn is about hottie Casey Beldon who fights the spirit of her dead twin which is trying to possess her. In the lead role is Odette Yustman who is the chick from Cloverfield and playing her boyfriend is the very spankable Cam Gignadet aka the dude who played James in Twilight. The always-impressive Gary Oldman is thrown in for good measure playing the Rabbi who tries to exorcise Casey’s demons and Meagan Good, in a film that isn’t about black dancers from the ghetto, is the best friend. I watched the trailer for this a few months ago and although there’s a few scenes that look like they’ve been stolen straight out of The Ring or The Grudge, this flick looks genuinely scary. I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw a trailer and got the wiggins*. Whether The Unborn delivers on the promising nature of the trailer remains to be seen. It’s out in 0z on January 22. Watch the trailer here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=sc3Cba0qOco
The Uninvited"No, I gave you the rubber ducky." Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel fight it out in a scene from The Uninvited (above).

Boom! That `boom’ is my Ari Gold rendition for `what a cast’! Okay, so there’s really only two people in this film I’m interested in but in all honesty I never dared hope they would end up working together. The Uninvited is adapted from yet another successful Asian horror film called A Tale of Two Sisters. One of my favourite Australian actresses and major up and comer Emily Browning (pictured below) plays Anna who after a stint in a mental hospital returns home to live with her sister (and best friend) Alex and her dad. However, things have changed since the last time she lived with her family and her father’s new wife Rachael has moved in. The rest of the plot you can guess pretty easily as the two sisters start to think there’s something seriously wrong with their new `mum’. After a bit of digging around the chickies discover some horrific incidents in Rachael past and from there things start to get a little freaky. And who plays the psychotic Rachael you ask? Why none other than the delightful Elizabeth Banks who seems to be bounding from one solid role to another. The brother team of Charles and Thomas Guard are directing and this looks like an impressive entry in to the mainstream market but at the same time remaining a tad left of centre. The Uninvited definitely carries the supernatural thriller title but I think the element which set this film apart from the hundreds of others in this genre is the strong performances from leading ladies Browning and Banks who are both the cream of my hypothetical acting crop. This puppy has a March 19 release date in Australia but you can view the juicy (and I do mean juicy) trailer here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZpkxKPFQk

*Wiggins: (not to be confused with musical act The Wiggles) is a phrase first coined by Velma Dinkley of Scooby Doo fame and means to be afraid or have the feeling of fear. Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, frankfurters, hoodoo-gurus.