Four medical students are pushed to their limits, while working at the lab with human remains. The dissections and experiments keep the students on the razor edge of their emotional stability. One of the students starts seeing images of the dead bodies. While struggling to keep science and grades more important than sanity, mistakes are made, and one by one the students start disappearing.

Mortuaries are supposed to be creepy, with pale cadavers, the foul stench of formaldehyde and death that can give anyone the goose-bumps. Somehow, "Unrest" manages to make a morgue look boring and completely unscary.

Medical student Alison Blanchard (Corri English) has to live in the hospital's unused wing until her financial aid comes through. Her first class in medical school is anatomy, and her group, consisting Rick O'Conner (Jay Jablonski), Carlos Aclar (Joshua Alba), and Brian Cross (Scot Davis), have to choose and dissect a cadaver. As they uncover their cadaver, they discover that it was a young woman who had been mutilated. After vomiting all over herself and passing out, Alison senses that something isn't right with the cadaver.

The group proceed with their dissection, affectionately naming the cadaver 'Norma'. When murders and strange things start to occur, Alison thinks they are linked to her cadaver and tries to find out why the spirit of the woman is trying to communicate with her.

I was really looking forward to watching this movie as I was hoping that it would be scary and creepy. I walked in full of hope and came out full of disappointment.

Director Jason Todd Ipson has squandered many opportunities to make this movie more interesting. For example, the Aztec angle is not properly developed, and the audience is not shown what had happened to 'Norma' and her victims. The whole plot itself is full of potholes. Like, if so many people have died, why are the police not getting more involved? If everyone who touches the body is cursed, why weren't Alison, Rick, Brian, and Carlos the first to die?

The cinematography is a downfall. The camera angles are terrible. Half of the time we couldn't see the foreheads of the cast. The location of the movie is repetitive. If you have watched "Phone Booth" it's pretty much the same, as "Unrest" only shows scenes in the hospital. Even the places where the victims are killed are the same. They are all shot in the morgue, Alison's bedroom, the bathroom or the library, but nowhere outside the hospital.

The effects are worse than the typical horror movie. The background music comes on nearly in every scene, which is irritating as we are unable to hear the dialogue clearly. There's the usual dim lighting and whispering effects but they do not evoke any scares. Then there are the suspense sequences which fail terribly. I have to say the only suspense that actually works is the part where Alison and Brian take a dip in the cadaver tank to retrieve Norma's body. Kudos to that!

The only good thing about the movie is that there were no cuts. The dissection sequence is shown clearly, albeit that it could be in the name of science.

For those who are scared of blood and corpses, this movie may hold some scares. However, those who expect more to a horror movie than just blood, please stay away.