"The Autopsy of Jane Doe" in the style of a mediocre mid-2000s supernatural slasher, Jason Todd Ipson's "Unrest" sees a cadaver claiming victims from beyond the grave at a morgue where pathology student Alison (Corri English) works. Quickly realising something's amiss with the mutilated body her team is tasked with dissecting, Alison sets about stopping her immobile foe as those around her continue to die. If the use of actual cadavers and morgue setting lend some novelty and impact to some of its scenes, the plot itself is sadly conventional and the characters dull and uninspiring. It helps not that character development is thin across the board; the main protagonists are essentially superstitiously-minded from the start, which is strange for medical students tasked with working on corpses, while the more sceptical people around them remain stubbornly aloof long after students and investigators start showing up as formaldehyde floaters, for no other reason than that the half-baked plot demands. Tacking a lame ending onto it all doesn't help much either. I did enjoy Corri English as Alison, though, even if she's never gonna win any Oscars.
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