Movie Review: Unrest

Unrest
Director: Jason Todd Ipson
Released: 2007

My analysis: Not good at all.


A first year medical student has a profound reaction to the cadaver she is assigned to in Gross Anatomy. The exact nature of this reaction is never revealed - she doesn't have visions or enter an altered state of consciousness or experience physical symptoms. From the available evidence, it would seem that she's just really creeped out.

Anyway, she get really creeped out. She consults with some (unidentified) school official who encourages her to share her concerns about the creepy corpse with her anatomy professor, who justifiably laughs in her face. There is a string of murders. The anatomy professor cuts his own leg off with a reciprocating saw, and the med student heroically incinerates the scary cadaver.

The plot is generally incoherent. The tone of the movie has far too much in common with med school sitcoms like Grays Anatomy. The director seemed to imagine that his audience would be scared by the mere existence of anatomy classes.

An odd addition: through the film, the characters make clear that they imagine having ones body donated to science is one of the worst things that could possibly happen to anybody. All the cadavers that end up being dissected in anatomy classes belong to junkies, homeless people, missing persons, or folks who don't have any living family. Otherwise, they'd never have been donated. This belief isn't important to the plot, but it appears to be shared by every character with lines.

In short - not exactly unwatchable, but not at all pleasant.