[Unrest]
Plot:Four medical students are pushed into working with human remains, while keeping emotionally stable. One of the students starts seeing images from one of the dead bodies. While struggling to keep science more important than sanity, mistakes are made, and the students start dying.

Cast: Corri English, Scot Davis, Joshua Alba, Jay Jablonski, Derrick O'Connor, Reb Fleming, Ben Livingston, Abner Genece, Marisa Petroro, Susan Duerden.

My Thoughts: So bad it's it's.......bad!

Review:After Dark's Horrorfest is making me more and more glad I didn't pay to see a single film out of the 7. "Dark Ride" was terrible, "Wicked Little Things" was a missed opportunity, "The Gravedancers" was decent but not spectacular, and "Penny Dreadful" was about the only film so far of the After Dark bunch that was actually worth a damn. Then I plop down to watch "Unrest", and well after sitting through this film.....I needed two things, a drink, and some fresh air to clear my mind of the cinematic disaster I had just witnessed. "Unrest" starts off pretty damn cooly, with a woman who's obviously posessed by the look in her eye, cutting herself in a similar fashion to some of the characters from "Ghost Of Mars".

That's about as interesting as this film gets. Later on, the same womans body turns up at a Med school where Med students are cutting on cadavers looking to make the grade and graduate, you know all of that real world stuff. Of course whatever posessed her when she was alive just cannot resist the temptation of all of these new victims around, so it or her, or whatever goes on a new killing spree...this time targeting the hapless med students. But back to the it, her, or whatever. That's this films first problem. It's never really revealed what is doing the killing. The spirit, the womans body up and walking around posessed by the spirit, or the spirit in some sort of solid creature like form. I mean I know hiding your villain is a typical horror movie tactic, used to keep the suspense and fear going....but the demon or what have you is never shown! Which after sitting through this crap is what frustrated me the most.

Usually when I see a really shitty horror film involving the supernatural or some freaky hellbeast on a rampage, after a horrid script, terrible acting, and a lame story...the filmmakers are nice enough to break out the sometimes awesome looking, at other times cheesy looking creature. This movie opts to not do that, which just wraps the movie up into one horrible little package along with everything else. The lead actress in the film Corri English has great looks and some decent talent but I don't know how deep in debt or hungry for something other than Ramen Noodles she was to take on a role in this movie. And if you're looking for some great death scenes, think again! This film really has no death scenes, except one where some blonde chick bleeds to death for no apparent reason but we're told that the "spirit" made her do it but it looks so patheticly played out that all you can do is just roll your eyes and say "surrrrre".

Most of the kids who bite the dust in this picture die offscreen. Seriously, one minute they're alive, then the following morning they turn up dead inside the cadaver tank and guess what folks....yep, that pesky ole' spirit was once more behind the deadly hijinks. Of course looking at the fact that this is a hospital, and that two of the med students live in the hospital for financial reasons....it's hard to believe that no one ever sees this thing kill anybody. To top it all off "Unrest" has all of the cliches you love to hate, characters do so many dumb things in the face of danger you begin to find yourself rooting for the whatever it is that's picking them off left and right.

And I'm sure anyone who's yet to see this picture will love what Englishes character and one of the lead male characters does near the end of the picture hoping to save the day. Tack on a burned out looking professor who's in constant denial about what's happening with the mysterious female cadaver and you've got a real waste of time here my friends. I won't even get started on the ending which is just laughable in it's stupidity and overall boldness. "Unrest" is sure to give any horror fan a sleepless night. Not because it's scary, but because it's terrifying that stuff like this actually gets funded and then labeled as "too scary for theaters". Too scary? More like too boring.

Positives:Good looking lead female.

Negatives:Awful script, bad acting by a majority of the cast, hardly any blood or gore or on-screen deaths. Pathetic ending.

Overall:Run like hell from this movie!





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