Unrest - After Dark Horror Fest |  | Director: Jason Todd Ipson
Actors: Corri English, Scot Davis, Joshua Alba, Marisa Petroro, Ben Livingston
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
Buy Used: $1.34
as of 11/22/2009 15:26 CST details
You Save: $13.64 (91%)
New (33) Used (59) Collectible (2) from $1.34
Seller: jimmyindanvillelucky
Rating:  51 reviews
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 21112
UPC: 031398211129
EAN: 0031398211129
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
| • | Alison Blanchard begins her journey to become a physician in her Gross Anatomy, where she must confront rows of cadavers and her own fear of mortality. When the sheets are drawn back revealing her cadaver, Alison senses a presence in the lab. Her jaded professor chalks it up to first year "jitters" but her worries increase when a friend is found dead in the basement. Alison must find out t |
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Alison Blanchard begins her journey to become a physician in her Gross Anatomy class where she must confront rows of cadavers and her own fear of mortality. When the sheets are drawn back revealing her cadaver Alison senses a presence in the lab. Her jaded professor chalks it up to first year "jitters" but her worries increase when a friend is found dead in the basement. Alison must find out the truth behind her cadaver before its angered spirit can wreak further vengeance on those who dared to disturb the body.System Requirements:Run Time: 84 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398211129 Manufacturer No: 21112
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 51
An enjoyable film plagued by plot holes and immense jumps in logic September 30, 2009
Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA)
Unrest has more than its fair share of problems, but I have to admit I did enjoy watching it. I can't give director Jason Todd Ipson too much credit, though, because he wrote as well as directed the project - and this storyline has some gargantuan holes and death-defying jumps of logic interspersed throughout. The inclusion of several really annoying little things (such as the fact that first-year med school students are constantly referred to as Doctors) also take something away from one's enjoyment. Still, I have to admit that there's just something about Unrest that I liked.
First-year med student Alison Blanchard (Britney Spears lookalike Corri English) isn't the first student to ever pass out at her first sight of a dead body, but she may be the first to explain her lunch-tossing reaction as a response to a strong feeling that something isn't esoterically right with her cadaver. She recovers in time to help her lab partners start dissecting the body, but she becomes obsessed with finding out whatever she thinks the exceedingly dead corpse is trying to tell her. So far so good with the creepy atmosphere, which is further heightened by the fact that poor Alison actually has to reside there in a dark wing of the hospital until her financial aid comes through. Her professor and lab mates just think she has typical first-year med school jitters, but it becomes obvious that something far from typical is going on when individuals connected to the body start turning up dead.
The casting in this film is, if nothing else, interesting. I think Corri English does a pretty good job in the starring role, and the fact that she bears such a strong resemblance to Britney Spears makes her even more interesting to watch. Speaking of very attractive women, you're also treated to the captivating performance of Deal or No Deal's Marissa in the role of a rather mesmerizing minor (yet crucial) character. You also have Jessica Alba's brother playing the role of one of Alison's dissection partners, while Derrick O'Connor makes for something of a quintessential gross anatomy instructor.
This film reportedly used real human cadavers, but that fact doesn't make Unrest a better or more provocative film - especially if you only learn about the use of real human cadavers after you've already watched the movie. As always, the story's the thing, and this story just has far too many problems to qualify as any sort of stand-out title in the After Dark Horrorfest collection.
 Insulting. August 24, 2009
Lika Laruku (Seattle.)
It sounded promising. I was watching my usual Saturday marathon. This week it was hospital-based horror movies. I watched this right after Autopsy, which was much much better than this.
The lead actress had a simply irritating personality, she was the kind of person who usually gets killed off in horror movies, but as cliche goes, the girl always survives in the end. She attends med school because she thinks that if she can understand the human body, she'll understand all the mysteries of the universe, or something to that degree. Right off the bat, she proves ill-suited to her chosen profession by puking on herself & passing out withing the first 5 minutes of her first class.
The insulting part is that they keep insinuating that she is either an Atheist or an Agnostic, but she is clearly a Theist or Spiritualist with strong beliefs in her own psychic abilities to detect the presence of evil spirits. Real Atheists don't have these kinds of "feelings" she keeps insisting upon, so the movie is insulting real Atheists.
Back to the story. The girl just sort of snaps into a state of paranoid schizophrenia & causes lots of unrest & irritation among her peers & superiors & keeps finding lots of dead bodies, yet she is neither institutionalized, transferred to another school, expelled, suspended, or made into a suspect for murder. Seriously, there is murder after murder & no one is brought in for questioning, they don't even close the school down for an investigation.
Another thing I hated about this movie was the lack of gore, because they don't show you anything, not even a walking zombie/ghost cadaver. The "antagonist" of the movie doesn't so much as twitch in this movie. You are even left thinking that it could possibly have been the girl; she was there, she found the bodies, & she's definitely crazy & that the possessed cadaver killings are a manifestation she made up in her head.
Yet another irritation comes from the genre switch near the end of the movie, when it goes from a psychological horror movie to an in-your-face sci-fi paranormal ghost movie, & the ghost's special effects were very disappointing because the ghost is invisible. If the cadaver had become animated, it might not have been so bad.
According to the Wikipedia "Formaldehyde is classified as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At concentrations above 0.1 ppm in air formaldehyde can irritate the eyes & mucous membranes, resulting in watery eyes. Formaldehyde inhaled at this concentration may cause headaches, a burning sensation in the throat, & difficulty breathing, as well as triggering or aggravating asthma symptoms. " Well, this girl & her boyfriend strip down to their underwear & go swiming in a tank full of it!
& the last bad piece comes from the ending itself, an open-ending that leaves room for an undesirable sequel that it probably won't deliver anyway, leaving the whole story completely unresolved.
 I love these movies!! June 11, 2009
T. Steffes (South Dakota, USA)
This ia a horror movie with holes so wide you could drive a bus through it.
-people aren't reported missing
-freshmen med students are NEVER called doctor
-She really could only find a spare room in the hospital, no apartments open or roomates needed?
-Mayans aren't in BRAZIL-why coldn't one person fact check this?
Dspite all of this the movie did what it was supposed to, creep me out. The atomshpere was great, and the lead actress and medical teacher performed great.
I love low buget horror, but it's not for everyone. If you've watched and enjoyed other movies in this serie, get it righst away. If you don't care for them, this won't change your mind.
I give it a B+.
Could have been fantastic, ends up mediocre. June 1, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
Unrest (Jason Todd Ipson, 2006)
According to IMDB, the tagline for Unrest was "the first film to use real bodies." Oops. To the best of my knowledge, the first film to use real bodies was released almost twenty years before (T. F. Mous' 1988 exploitation flick Men Behind the Sun). And I probably missed a few that came before that. Someone forgot to do a bit of research there, I think. That's not surprising. Like a number of After Dark Horrorfest movies, Unrest is one of those movies that actually had a great deal of potential, but failed to realize it at every turn.
The story revolves around Alison Blanchard (3: The Dale Earnhardt Story's Corri English), a new freshman in medical school who, like most medical school students, goes through the usual initiation: she and her classmates are given a cadaver to dissect as soon as they start classes, and will be dissecting it for the rest of the semester. As she knows no one, Alison kind of stumbles in to a group who needs a fourth; her new pals are Brian (12-24's Scot Davis), Carlos (Alpha Dog's Joshua Alba--and yes, that is a family resemblance you notice), and Rick (Fashion Victim's Jay Jablonski), and, of course, the four of them make for as heterogeneous a group as one might expect in a horror film containing young-and-beautifuls. Weird things happen from day one, and Alison becomes convinced that the soul of their cadaver has been somehow harnessed to the body, and begins to consult occult specialists to find out how to go about freeing it. The others initially scoff at her beliefs, but as the strangeness piles up and other members of the group begin to be affected, Alison finds a reluctant partner in crime in Brian, who may not believe, but is willing to accept that something weird is going on.
It seems to me that the problem here lies in the script, co-written by Ipson and first-time writer Chris Billett. This is the kind of thing at which the Japanese are superlative, and many times while watching this movie, I wondered how the material would have been handled by someone like Shinya Tsukamoto (whose Vital is, thematically, quite close to this). But that's not what we got, and Unrest must be judged on its own merits. While it does have a few--there's some decent acting (English is good when she's not overdoing it, and some of the minor characters are quite fine) and some striking scenes, but the whole thing never quite comes together in the way it seems it should. There are ideas culled from other films that don't quite work as well here as they did in their original places; one of Alison's encounters with Rick, for example, was pulled straight out of Verbinski's remake of Ring (there's that Japanese connection again), and where Verbinski's take on it is undeniably powerful, here it just left me with a sense of puzzlement.
The thing about the Japanese New Horror movement that has made it work for so long is that the movies that fall into that category are absolutely loaded with atmosphere. Ipson grasps that idea a few times (pretty much any scene with the body tank is a success here), but it's never sustained long enough to give the movie the creepiness that the material deserves. I really did want to like this movie, especially given my love for Vital, but I never quite managed it. ** ½
 Very good horror movie. April 28, 2009
Amber (Georgia)
I have seen quite a few horror flicks, and I am pretty discerning. I don't care for slasher flicks, vampires and zombies are generally pretty boring and overdone, and werewolves aren't scary at all. Give me a good ghost/possession story any day. As soon as I finished watching Unrest the first time, I knew I had to own the DVD. It was THAT powerful.
Now, I agree that there are a lot of discrepancies in this movie, especially regarding the biggest plot point about the Aztecs. I have studied ancient civilizations with the Aztecs being one of my favorites, so I was a little irked that the writers of this movie so blatantly disregarded the facts. If it had been less of a plot point it would not have bothered me that much, but they kept bringing it up and kept trying to tie it into what was happening. I was able to ignore the medical issues until much, much later though. And none of the discrepancies bothered me enough to change my view of the movie.
The acting in this was top-notch, and I really cared about the girl and her boyfriend. I was very happy with the way the movie ended. To me, the pace of the film was not slow at all--rather, it was building to the climax in a logical, "realistic" manner. The setting they chose for this was a great one, and not generally seen in horror films despite the obvious associations. It had a good script with interesting dialogue as well.
I for one feel that this is one of the best horror movies made in recent years.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 51
|
|
|
