Could it be that the spirit of a dead cadaver is killing off all those who have medical dealings with her body?Judging by the unfairly low rating it has on the main internet movie sites, it's very likely that the slow pace and lack of gore has counted against Unrest, which is a big shame. Jason Todd Ipson (director) draws on his real life experiences as a Boston general surgery employee to produce a film of skin itching substance. The premise is nifty and the real location shooting really adds weight to this mortality gone awry tinged horror.There's a freshness to the film that leaps out, finding a film maker not merely content to pander to the formulaic hordes to win plaudits. Having an impossibly gorgeous female lead (Corri English) as the main protagonist would lend one to think that is not the case, but there's a rawness to English's acting that suits the character perfectly. There's a splendid realism factor to the picture, the blend of the real and the smart effects work nestling nicely together on the mortuary slab.Atmosphere is a word that has always been key in non blood letting horror parlance, and Unrest has it in abundance. It would have been easy for Ipson to rely on boo-jump shocks, but he doesn't, he uses his knowledge of setting and subject matter to craft a tight and tense thriller that manages to gnaw away at the senses, even ensuring that the cadaver, as dead as she apparently is, is a full and rich character holding court as the body count starts to tot up.The musical score (Michael Cohen) is a bit intrusive at times, a romantic sub-plot a little pointless, while the finale doesn't quite hit great heights given what has led up to it, but this is a smart dark mood accentuated piece and it is well worth checking out. 7.5/10

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.

Let me start off by saying it's not a bad film. I didn't hate it, I just didn't fall in love with it. But I'm glad I watched it.The cinematography is very good, the whole piece is generally rather beautiful. But can beauty make up for a lack of plot or substance? The first half is very good. Scrap that the first two thirds are very good. The build up, the general air of unease created, spot on. Then we have this particular films 'reveal' and it all quickly goes downhill from there.Don't get me wrong, if you are a horror fan I would recommend this over any Saw (bar the original) any day, if only for the originality of the setting. I just don't see it going mainstream.Oh, one more thing; you will never see the phrase 'dipping your toe in the water' in the same light again!

The film features medical students in gross anatomy lab at the beginning of medical school. There are obvious flaws, as a first year very few people refer to you as "doctor," but the most glaring flaws were in the main point of the movie - the cadaver. Real medical school cadavers are older, have been given to the school specifically for that purpose (and are NOT shipped across state lines) and rarely resemble real people as much as those in this movie. But its a horror movie, so I will grant them the poetic license. A medical student who revives her unconscious friend after drowning by slapping his face is difficult to believe, as is a person who dies in a pool of blood from a aortic rupture (what I'm assuming is what the fiancée died from since it was explained as "one of the vessels from her heart burst). Additionally, I doubt any medical school in the country keeps vats of formalin around big enough to hold multiple bodies. And certainly no one would go swimming around in there - the smell off a body alone is enough to make your eyes water and sting. But overall, not a bad movie, the plot is a bit of a stretch but it's worth watching once.