“I think there's something wrong with my corpse.”
-Allison Blanchard (Corri English)

I’ve really been staving off revisiting this one, simply because (somewhat ironically) I remember it for being dull and forgettable. It’s titled Unrest, and is one of the so called ‘8 Films to Die For’ from the annual After Dark Horrorfest event. This film was shown during the event’s first year in 2006, alongside seven other independent horror films including The Abandoned, Dark Ride, The Gravedancers, The Hamilton’s, Penny Dreadful, Reincarnation (Rinne), and Wicked Little Things (links are to reviews). Amongst the aforementioned eight, I would rate this one somewhere in the middle; simply due to the fact that at best, it’s a very average film.

Unrest is…

Shot in an actual morgue with (allegedly) real body parts: now there's a horror movie right there. If only it wasn't delivered in such a completely boring way... The dialogue's not awful, but more often than not it's achingly cliched. There is a nicely slow build in the beginning, alas it merely transitions to a completely inert finale. A dead body that doesn't come to life, just inflicts magic wounds on people, is not really a very threatening horror villain, and the fact that she might well be the film's most charismatic character is a good indication of how drab these performers are, as cold and unconvincing as the film's colour scheme. The protagonist is infuriatingly inactive, moaning about feeling…

“I think there's something wrong with my corpse.”
-Allison Blanchard (Corri English)

I’ve really been staving off revisiting this one, simply because (somewhat ironically) I remember it for being dull and forgettable. It’s titled Unrest, and is one of the so called ‘8 Films to Die For’ from the annual After Dark Horrorfest event. This film was shown during the event’s first year in 2006, alongside seven other independent horror films including The Abandoned, Dark Ride, The Gravedancers, The Hamilton’s, Penny Dreadful, Reincarnation (Rinne), and Wicked Little Things (links are to reviews). Amongst the aforementioned eight, I would rate this one somewhere in the middle; simply due to the fact that at best, it’s a very average film.

Unrest is…

Shot in an actual morgue with (allegedly) real body parts: now there's a horror movie right there. If only it wasn't delivered in such a completely boring way... The dialogue's not awful, but more often than not it's achingly cliched. There is a nicely slow build in the beginning, alas it merely transitions to a completely inert finale. A dead body that doesn't come to life, just inflicts magic wounds on people, is not really a very threatening horror villain, and the fact that she might well be the film's most charismatic character is a good indication of how drab these performers are, as cold and unconvincing as the film's colour scheme. The protagonist is infuriatingly inactive, moaning about feeling…