Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

BA_Harrison Sexy medical student Alison Blanchard (Corri English) begins to believe that the cadaver she is dissecting is somehow causing the deaths of those around her.Unrest, directed by Jason Todd Ipson, starts out promisingly enough, with a great collection of supporting characters that share a delightfully morbid sense of humour, and graphic autopsy scenes that prove effectively unsettling, particularly when Alison begins to suspect that something isn't quite right with the body she is slicing up. Although nothing especially untoward happens in these early scenes, the ever-present atmosphere of death and the potential for scares is enough to build a palpable sense of tension.Unfortunately, as the supernatural element comes to the fore, the movie goes downhill, proceedings becoming more and more far-fetched as the plot takes shape. Alison delves into the history of the corpse, dubbed Norma by the students, and discovers a disturbing past involving 50,000 enraged Aztec spirits. A gruesome finale that involves Alison and her boyfriend Brian (Scot Davis) swimming around in a tank full of body parts is wonderfully repulsive, but extremely daft.5/10, rounded up to 6 for the grisly make-up effects and for getting the exceptionally hot Corri English to strip down to her bra not once, but three times.

BakuryuuTyranno Oh the movie isn't exactly bad although essentially it's another one of those ghost films Hollywood's constantly regurgitating into cinemas, minus the jump "scares" (seriously, if you're going to try making scary films, try making films that are scary, loud blaring noises don't cut it). At least Afterdark Horrorfest only made this mistake once.Mysterious deaths, protagonist gets tormented rather than offed, meets love interest who then tries helping her before they too fall victim to the murderous spirit. Oh and naturally, they're required to investigate what could have angered the spirit enough to start killing.Sound familiar? Thought so.Not exactly bad, just overdone to the extent it feels like lifeless filler. I understand Hollywood making ridiculous amounts of films like this for commercial purposes, but horror festivals, generally being run by people with understanding of the genre, should know better.

Michael_Elliott Unrest (2006) *** (out of 4) Effective horror film about a med student (Corri English) who begins to feel that there's something not right with the female cadaver that her and her classmates have been working with. Soon everyone who touches the dead body soon winds up dead themselves and it's up to the med student to try and figure out if there's a curse on the body or perhaps its spirit is still around. I was pleasantly surprised to see how effective I thought this film was. The first hour of the movie is full of terrific atmosphere and it even managed to be quite chilling thanks in large part to a nice story, strong direction and a very good lead performance. The film has an atmosphere that you'd expect to see in some Spanish horror films from back in the day. The atmosphere here is extremely cold and dark and it really feels like what a hospital's dead room is like. I'm not sure how many people have worked in a hospital but I have and there's just a certain feeling you get when you're in a room with bodies. That feeling is something I felt throughout this movie and I thought the director did a very good job at keeping the viewer feeling very uneasy as our lead tries to figure out what's going on. The mystery of the film actually works pretty good for the first hour as it's never too clear what's going on or why the students begin dying off. The movie, like most current ones, features quite a bit of blood and some real violence but this stuff is never here to make one sick or to go as some sort of shock value. Instead, it's simply here because that's what you'd expect to see when you're cutting a body open. What was the biggest shocked to me was the performance by English who was downright wonderful and in my opinion one of the most refreshing performances I've seen in a recent horror film. She's's certainly very beautiful but her acting is so natural that you couldn't help but believe everything she was going through. I thought she was terrific in the role and her energy helped carry everything. Ben Livingston, Abner Genece and Derric O'Connor add nice supporting performances as well. As good as the movie is it does suffer from a pretty weak final twenty-minutes. I thought the ending didn't work at all and after a while one has to ask how on Earth these med students are doing everything they are without others noticing or the police getting involved. With that said, it's hard to find a horror movie that's effective so when one comes along it's well worth seeing. UNREST is far from a masterpiece but it's an effective little gem that has enough going for it to make it worth sitting through.

cheshire551225800 First of all I have to get out of the way my serious objection to the way in which apparently everybody involved in this film doesn't have any idea of where Aztecs lived. Aztecs lived in Mexico primarily around what is now Mexico City. Mayans lived in Mexico and countries farther south in the area of the Yucatan Peninsula, Incans live in the Andes and yes that would have at least been the right continent (South America), but Aztecs in Brazil???? Were they stupid Aztecs who got lost? Can you say that everybody involved with this film is either stupid or criminally insensitive to those cultures? And people wonder why we in the United States are considered dumb by many others around the world? If you can get past that, it is a decent low budget movie. The actors tried hard and the female lead was perky and you hoped she wouldn't get dead in a horrible way as most of the guys did. I thought that her boyfriend portrayed a Christian male as something more than a right wing nutter and that was a bit refreshing.I think that basic anatomy and physiology is necessary to medicine and therefore I think some of the comments about how they shouldn't have been cutting up dead people was a bit.....well medieval. I know I want a doctor that I go to see to have a thorough grounding in those subjects. And the swimming around in tanks of dead people was gross as well as improbable without serious respiratory and protective gear, but hey these people didn't even know where Aztecs lived so why should they get that correct? Note to the film-makers - check your facts next time and go for some type of intelligence or reality. I wouldn't pay for this but if it comes on TV latenight, it is a decent cheesy way to pass a little time.