The film stars Odette Yustman as a young woman who is tormented by a dybbuk and seeks help from a rabbi (Gary Oldman).

[4][5] Produced by Michael Bay and his production company Platinum Dunes, it was released in American theaters on January 9, 2009, by Rogue Pictures, making it the last film Goyer directed.

Sofi explains that as a child she had a twin brother, Barto, who died during Nazi experiments conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz during World War II.

A dybbuk brought her brother back to life to use as a portal into the world of the living, but Sofi killed Barto to stop the spirit, and now it haunts her family for revenge, which is why Casey's mother went insane and committed suicide.

Sofi gives Casey a hamsa amulet for protection, instructs her to destroy all mirrors and burn the shards, and refers her to Rabbi Joseph Sendak, who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove the dybbuk from her soul.

Sendak, Mark, Episcopal priest Arthur Wyndham, and other volunteers begin the exorcism, but the dybbuk attacks them and several are wounded or killed.

The site's critics consensus reads: "David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.

"[7] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 30 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".