Unrest - After Dark Horror Fest
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Movie Reviews of Unrest - After Dark Horror Fest
Movie Review: Nice eye candy. Stupid story.
Summary: 3 Stars
I guess it comes down to what you really want in a "horror" film. This movie wasn't very horrific. The leading lady was nice to look at, but that's about where the perks end in this film. The acting was lame, even for veteran actors in the movie. The set was cheap, not that you have to spend a lot to get a lot. I found myself feeling sorry for the people that made the movie. Another in the long line of disappointing movies in the After Dark Horrorfest series.Movie Review: What a crock!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw this movie only because a friend rented it. Contrary to the hype (which barely made a ripple anyway, that being one of the few times I actually feel proud of the human race), this movie is hugely disrespectful to human beings who were once somebody's loved ones. I am a flaming liberal, but this is WAY over the line. Any poser-goth jerk who sanctions this movie should find themselves alone in a dark alley with the families of the exploited victims of this badly written, gimmick-laden bunch of quasi-post-modern horse dung. Science, God, Buddha, Allah, and Shiva know that if I saw my poor dead son or daughter laid on a cold slab so that a tin-brained Britney Spears lookalike could engage in masturbatory "acting" and make some B- director a buck, there would be truly bloody hell to pay. This movie represents everything that short, limp-hearted boys with small penises who grow into unknown Hollywood directors aspire towards. Movie Review: Un-intentionally boring!
Summary: 3 Stars
This was the first After Dark Horror Fest movie that I saw, and I must say that I was a disappointed after watching it.
Synopsis: The story is about a group of medical students who join "Gross Anatomy", one of them being Alison. She teams up with a group of three other students, Brian, Carlos and Rick. Their first assignment is to examine a cadaver of a young woman. However, Alison starts experiencing strange things from the moment she starts to cut upon the body. Little does she know that, whoever is in contact with the cadaver, die of mysterious circumstances.
Positive aspects:
1. I must admit, I found the initial plot of the story somewhat intriguing. It had a good potential to become something really suspenseful and thought provoking.
2. The actors also did a good job playing their roles. They can only do so much with the material they are given.
3. The movie focused more on the storyline rather than the gory details. While this wasn't such a wise move, it was good to see a movie rely more on the psychological aspect than the queasy details.
Negative aspects: Where do I begin? There were SO many plot holes in this movie, medical and otherwise, that made me lost interest in this movie. I divided them into 2 categories, because there are so many unexplained and unbelievable things that just don't make sense.
*NOTE: This Section contains spoilers so if you have not seen the movie, please don't read any further, unless you want to know how the movie ends*
Medical issues -
1. I am not a medical student, but its common sense that just a whiff of formaldehyde is dangerous, and if you do research on it, you will find out that a few drops in your eyes can make you permanently blind. Large dosage of it could put you in a coma, or worse, death. So I found it ridiculous that in the end, Alison was able to get her boyfriend out of the tank, open the glass top, throw her boyfriend out, and go back in to get the body, without anything happening to her.
2. Also, bodies are generally drained of blood before they are used for autopsies. So I don't understand how such large trails of blood came out of the bag when Alison was dragging it in the end. Even if you don't know anything about this medical aspect, its kind of silly that you don't see any blood coming out of the body throughout the movie when they initially examine it, and all of a sudden, it is coming in the end when Alison is dragging it.
I'm sure people practicing in this area can find out many other issues, but since I don't know much about it, this is what I was able to figure out from just watching it once.
Non-Medical -
1. Since when did the Aztecs come from Brazil?!? They lived in Mexico. The writers of this movie obviously did not do their research. This is probably the most ridiculous point that was repeatedly mentioned.
2. Okay, historical and medical reasons aside. Let's get to the film itself. I agree with building the suspense, but this movie was just building it the whole time without giving any explanations. For around 20 minutes of the whole movie, I think I only saw Alison walking in the corridors with the lights switching on and off and some Aztec chanting in the background. In the beginning this seemed spooky, but later it was just confusing. I don't think the director had any material for one and a half hours, so he had to put these unnecessary scenes to stretch it.
3. Furthermore, I thought the professor was already dead when Alison saw him in the examining room with a chainsaw in his hand. Now we don't see what happened to him, but in the end, he seems fine again. This did not make sense, because if the spirits spared his life, it should have spared the others as well. I mean, Carlos was just doing research in the library and he dies, whereas the professor disrespects the body by putting it in the tank again, and he only loses a leg? What's going on??
I think that if the storyline was a little more believable, this would have been a very interesting movie. It wasn't totally bad, but it wasn't that good either. All in all, I would say that you can rent this movie once, just out of curiosity, but unless you are a fan of the whole After Dark Horror Fest series, you can skip this one.
Movie Review: Unrest
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie's main interest point was that is was the first movie to use real dead bodies, not a good sign of quality here, but fortunately it turned out to be a pretty good, if somewhat tame ghost story. There's really not much I can talk about here, it was just across the board average, acting, direction, blood, atmosphere, it was all just good. Nothing horrible, nothing spectacular. People will surely be disappointed if they go into this expecting great things, this is a time killer and nothing more. Enjoyable, but you'll probably only watch it once. Movie Review: UNscary and UNinteresting
Summary: 1 Stars
The cover for this DVD is the scariest thing about it. It's also one of those covers that has nothing to do with the movie. No cold corpse crawls out from a morgue's holding container. Wish one did. Then maybe it might have contained something scary. Yet another one of Afterdark Horrorfest's lame excuses for horror. Yet to see one that was good the whole way through. BORING. AVOID like the plague.