Unrest has the distinction of being ‘the first horror film to feature real dead bodies’ and that’s about all it has to offer.
When student doctor Alison Blanchard and the members of her group are given a cadaver to work on for gross anatomy class, they discover that anyone who has touched the body has died in mysterious circumstances. With staff and students dropping like flies, Alison and the guys in her group try to find out the identity of their Jane Doe to put an end to the deaths and her body and soul to rest.
The film opens well and genuinely does have a relatively new idea at its core, however it’s the execution that ruins a great premise. The cast is good but they don’t have much to do, especially Joshua Alba’s Carlos who disappears for half of the movie before reappearing and explaining his absence in one line before he is swiftly bumped off. Thankfully he doesn’t tell us that it’s because they couldn’t afford him for the entire shoot (the guy doesn’t even die on screen), but his excuse isn’t much better.
The film isn’t scary and I didn’t really care for any of the one-dimensional characters, so there wasn’t even a good reason to invest time in this. Even the promise of ‘real bodies’ (I’m sceptical) for more morbid viewers isn’t enough of a reason to check this out.
OVERALL SUMMARY
Unrest is the worst of the 8 films to die for so far.
