Disquiet (SP Media Group) [Film Review]

Disquiet is a Canadian Thriller/Horror that pits Sam (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) against a hospital full of zombies? Ghosts? Nightmare visions? (still not sure to be honest), following a car crash that we see in numerous, often confusing flashbacks. Michael Winnick has delivered a film that starts well, despite some appalling dialogue and cardboard acting, with taut action and multiple jump scares in an effectively creepy hospital setting. It often feels like a forgotten early episode of The X-Files (very ’90s!), but less scary. The intention is there but the fact that it feels very “straight to DVD” doesn’t help, and you can’t fail to imagine this has been made by a bunch of friends on a mini-budget over a few days, or at best a student project. This is no Evil Dead or Bad Taste though. Approa...

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