Bornless Ones (2016)

With the help of her friends, Emily moves to a remote home to take better care of her brother, Zack who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. But what they don't know is that the house kept a terrifying secret that will haunt them one by one.

Director:

Alexander Babaev

Writer:

Alexander Babaev

Stars:

Margaret Judson, Devin Goodsell, Michael Johnston

Cast

Credited cast:
Margaret Judson	...	Emily
Devin Goodsell	...	Jesse
Michael Johnston	...	Zach
Mark Furze	...	Woodrow
Bobby T	...	Michelle
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Banks	...	Richard Alonzo Jr III
Victoria Clare	...	Christina
Gwen Holloway	...	Emily's Mother
Nick Saso	...	Dennis
Rob Tepper	...	Dr. Waisenberg
Lana Titov	...	Dolores (as Svetlana Titova)
Greg Travis	...	Billy
Pony Wave	...	Sarah

Storyline

Emily has just purchased a remote home near an institution to provide better care for her brother Zach who is crippled with a severe form of Cerebral Palsy. During their first evening the group discovers strange symbols etched into the boards on the windows. They begin to clear away the symbols in the effort to clean the house, but soon realize just how serious of a mistake that was. One by one the group of friends become possessed by the evil spirits that haunt the cabin causing chaos that will forever be scarred into the mind of whoever survives.

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Plot Keywords:

symbol | exorcism | haunted house | female nudity | topless female nudity | 

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Taglines:

Only Evil Will Survive

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 February 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

Goetia

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Black Drone Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Was originally called "Goetia" Then "Haunted House On The Hill" before it was called Bornless Ones

User Reviews

Survival of evil

Saw 'Bornless Ones' being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre), and the cover was cool. Was less taken by the concept though, which sounded ridiculous. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing.

Unfortunately, do have to agree with the low rating and the poor reviews. 'Bornless Ones' is one of those films that mostly didn't take off, starting off interestingly, but went downhill far too early, never recovered and progressively got worse, particularly in the near-unwatchable later stages. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to not make 'Bornless Ones' an exception, so gave it a fair chance.

The location is also suitably spooky.

However, so much brings 'Bornless Ones' down. All the acting is either over-histrionic or disinterested, both in a few cases, and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste, the photography especially betrays that with its amateurishness. The effects are far from special, the complete opposite in fact.

Where 'Bornless Ones' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, is gratuitously crude, confused because of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very erratic pace, apparent early on and gets muddled and ridiculous in the second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. The stereotypical characters are as unlikeable as they come, the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down further.

For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary which makes a waste of such a spooky-looking location. The scares and thrills are too few, barely any even, and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the chaotic pacing and obvious sound editing cheapening them significantly. 'Bornless Ones' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the more it progressed the more chaotic but everything just feels chaotic and hasty), predictable and more nonsensical it became for a premise that was already far too derivative with far too many easily foreseeable moments. The ending leaves very little impact, very contrived and not much of one at all.

Overall, very poor. 2/10 Bethany Cox