Lack of good storyline.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is one of those movies I knew I'd seen before, then forgotten what happened.On this rewatch, I realized why. The movie is mostly slow-paced, and borderline boring. Overall, the concept and atmosphere were OK. The main actors work with their material, but for the most part, I didn't feel connected to the characters or the story. The reactions, in many scenes, were tame for the ongoing action. There is plenty of humor and realistic interaction to help identify with the characters, but overall, I felt it was too low-key.The basic story: 4 medical students are given a cadaver to dissect and work with. The one girl of the group senses something wrong with the body. She's left to be the worrywart as her partners work around her heebie-jeebies. People start disrespecting the body & wind up dead. A simple off-color remark, poking & prodding, or mysterious slight - they die.The story itself is muddled. I will have forgotten the ending again in short time, as it was anticlimactic. There was real potential to make this a mood-driven creepy horror movie, but it didn't quite get there.

This film started off OK, a little cheesy, but nothing more than is expected in most mainstream horrors. Yet as the film spiralled out of control into inconsistent and unexplained plot twists & random events, I could not help cringing. The characterisation for the main character, Alison, is bizarre, confused and frustrating. Her chumminess with the boys she meets for about 3 days is unexplained, even cradling one of them & grief counselling him after knowing him for maybe a week? Dead bodies spring out of thin air, there seems NO police investigation whatsoever, despite the fact that 4 people have died under suspicious circumstances within a week...The writing is just lazy, really. The Aztec thing is sort of thrown in there, without much background or explanation. Alison is presented as an atheist & a sceptic and then, after again 5 minutes, comes out as a hardcore psychic??! The boy she starts sleeping with in fresher's week decides he will follow the crazed psychic to the death, abandoning his career as a doctor, how implausible will it get! A man will gag at dinner with the parents after a fresher's fumble, LET ALONE JEOPARDISE HIS ENTIRE FUTURE FOR HER. This really is a bad film, worth a watch for its hilarious plot holes & terrible acting.

"Unrest" is an excellent example of how important it is to cast the central character. Cast Laura Dern in the role, and you've got a practically unwatchable turd of a movie, a turkey no-one except perhaps Bruce Dern and a couple of movie nerds (who'd watch anything, with anyone cast in the starring role) would ever want to watch. On the other side of the beauty/beast spectrum, you can cast Corri English - a very cute, spunky, sexy, well-endowed blond - and you've got a sort of "cover" for the movie's several logic problems. Corri chews up the scenery, and I could frankly watch her as she watches grass grow, let alone as she deals with a runaway corpse in a medical study hall. All the better.There is no sense in the way corpses just pile up, while life at the medical center goes blissfully on. The old bearded guy (who could have just as easily been cast as a delirious, sidewalk-dosing wino) gets neither too upset nor suspicious that people are dying left and right at his work-place. Police appear - or they don't - sort of at a whim. When a murder is committed you simply don't know whether that particular killing will tickle their fancy enough to make a rapid appearance at the hospital, or not.But, as I said, Corri English.

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.