Title: UnrestDirector: Jason Todd Ipson
Starring: Corri English, Scot Davis, Joshua Alba
Runtime: 88 minutes
Year: 2006
Source: Generation X Video
There is two things that irk the hell out me when it comes to movies - useless love plots added in and terrible music. Sadly for Unrest, it has both.
However, Unrest also features plenty of medical scenes [my weakness], well done dead bodies, and overall I like the way it was filmed. If it wasn't for the actual characters, I may of really liked this film. But last time I checked, they tend to need characters for movies? Eh, whatever. The dead bodies ruled and medical jargon melts my itty bitty heart [I really need to store a medical student in my closet to satisfy that need].
The love scenes were pointless and all it ever does is turn an otherwise strong character into a silly, useless twat. The humour was pure shit and the score almost made me fast forward parts.
Overall, I'd say skip this, unless you really like dead bodies... but if you do, keep it on the downlow, people tend to think that's strange. ;)
Half-assed recommended.
j.
5 comments:
My feelings on this pretty much exactly match yours... coincidently I did a post about this just the other day too! I only brought this movie up because I also featured a pre-code comic book story (same day) called Tank of Corpses which was much spookier than the movie ever hoped to be. Check it out:
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2007/12/tank-of-corpses.html
That comic rules, took me a wee while to read it all this morning. But it's rad. The writers of Unrest could of took a few pointers from it.
Writers? Unrest had WRITERS?
Color me surprised. :)
I just hated this one. Part of it was because I thought it was going to be a different (better) movie. Toward the beginning when the (genuinely icky) corpse seemed to be "coming to life" while the med students worked on it, I thought it was going to be a great revenant/zombie flick with a new gimmick. But then they dropped that and pulled the Aztec sex-goddess shit straight out of their ASSES, and I just lost it.
The reasons I question the existence of writers:
1) Aztecs are from Central America, not Brazil. Google and Wikipedia are your friends--as is Junior High World History.
2) The girl walks into a MURDER SCENE in the library, steps through a CROWD of gawking onlookers, removes A PIECE OF EVIDENCE FROM UNDER THE STILL-BLEEDING CORPSE, and slips out again unmolested. I don't expect a lot of realism from my dark fantasy/horror flicks, but COME ON.
3) They go swimming in formaldehyde. WITH THEIR EYES OPEN. I call shenanigans. See above.
4) The love scene. Huge build-up, lots of sexual tension, in their underwear on the bed, they lean in for the kiss...and then FADE OUT. I mean, why bother? So extreme it couldn't be released? Pull the other one.
(I knew girls like this in high school. They pissed me off then too.)
I've seen this one and The Abandoned, and while that one was know world-beater, it kicks Unrest's ass. My brother loaned me Wicked Little Things and Dark Ride, but I'm still in no hurry to watch them.
--end rant-- :)
I fully agree with you on the beginning. I was thinking "woah, how do people think this is a stinker?" during the first 20 minutes or so. But that twist with Brazil blah blah blah.. and holy, way to ruin the movies, asshats.
And I love your breakdown of the shit on the movie, hahaha. Awesome rant. :D
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