A handful of pregnant ladies die on exactly the fifteenth day after they all visited the website of an uncanny abortion-clinic. Doesn't that concept sound familiar? Sure, it involved watching old-fashioned videotapes and dying in only seven days, but the basic idea of "Ringu" is shamelessly imitated here in this uninspired but still very competently made South-Korean chiller. To carry on with the plot description: all the victims claimed to have 'seen themselves dying online' and, when the corpses are found, the uterus's are immensely stretched as if they just gave birth to a baby. Investigating the case are a cyber-police officer and a female TV-reporter who unfortunately for her clicked on the site herself. The story of "Unborn but Unforgotten" offers absolutely no surprises, but it's still worth watching in case you're a fan of Asian horror cinema, if it were only to admire the director's style and the cinematography. The atmosphere is dark and often scary even though there's nothing going on, really. There surely are a lot of holes in the plot (big ones, too), but the film nevertheless holds your attention because the main characters are likable, especially the girl, and because multiple images are just plain creepy! The music and acting performances are top-notch as well, making it all the more regretful to see the actual plot is so dull and déjà-vu. Browsing through the IMDb, I just found out lead actress Eun-Ju Lee committed suicide at the tender age of 25. That's a damn shame, because her devoted performance is definitely one of the highlights of "Unborn but Unforgotten".
