Claire Foy

Joshua Leonard

Jay Pharoah

Juno Temple

Aimee Mullins

Amy Irving

Sarah Stiles

Marc Kudisch

Colin Woodell

Myra Lucretia Taylor

Lynda Mauze

Zach Cherry

Polly McKie

Raúl Castillo

Michael Mihm

Robert Kelly

Natalie Gold

Sol Marina Crespo

Will Brill

Steven Maier

Matthew R. Staley

Matt Mancini

Emily Happe

Gibson Frazier

Erin Wilhelmi

Joseph P. Reidy

Matt Damon

Erika Rolfsrud

Elizabeth Goodman

Roshanna Jenkins

Lance Coughlin

Kevin Dean O'Connor

Ursula Triplett

Steven Soderbergh

Corey Bayes

Dan Fellman

Joseph Malloch

Arnon Milchan

Carmen Cuba

April Lasky

Kim Fischer

Susan Lyall

David 'Gus' Gustafson

Rachel Jaros

Michael Jortner

Shawn Allen

Grant Elder

Bop Tweedie

Jamie Clevenger

James Greer

Jonathan Bernstein

Robert T. Striem

Ken Meyer

Manny Siverio

Ashley Pynn

Josiah Nolan

Nikki Brower

Steve Cascarelli

Thomas Varga

Timothy Healy

John Joseph Minardi

Grant Wilfley

Melissa Braun

Kristin Lindbeck

JT Franchuk

Lisa Forst

Richie Christie

Deno Williams

Glenfield Payne

Josh Berger

Duncan McRae

Giuseppe Cappello

Gavin Hecker

Jay Peck

Michael Rivera

Bobby Johanson

Avi Laniado

Lesley Robson-Foster

David Wilder Savage

Becca Banks

Rachel Robb Kondrath

Sean Turney

Brandon Boyles

Natalie Hoffman

Darrell R. Smith

Jack Whitney

James B. Appleton

Ian Cymore

Luke Q. Iaciofano

Gunter Anderson

Pedro Atienzar

Parker Chehak

Josh Child

Matthew T. Griffin

Bashir Hamid

Irene C. Park

Alexis Sansone

Navid Bagherzadeh

Lucas McGowen

Troy Sola

Nikita Dolese

Dann Fink

Bruce Winant

Daniela Fabrizi

Yafi Hoch

Amy Ritchings

Courtney Colston

Nat Jencks

Devan Maura Saber

Nicholas DeWitt

Vincent Taylor

Noel Kelly

Michael A. Capotosto

Sean Hogan

Karyn Jarmer

Jill Vaupen

Gregory Jacobs

Michael Polaire

Horror

Thriller

Unsane

Fingerprint Releasing

Regency Enterprises

Extension 765

New Regency Pictures

Bleecker Street

United States of America

Divisive Dilemas.

Have to be honest, I had no idea this was filmed on an iPhone 7 or that it was directed by Steven Soderbergh. I was stuck for something to watch on cable the other night and I liked the sound of the plot premise. So unburdened by expectation of a searing horror classic I settled in to see what unfolds.

Plot has Claire Foy as Sawyer Valentini who inadvertently commits herself to a mental health institution. Once inside things being to unravel and the threat of her one time stalker now being even close to her opens up the book of terror - but is it real?

Firstly you have to say that the mental health authorities must have had kittens when they saw this, much of what is on screen is utterly ridiculous and paints the system in a damning light. Secondly you really have to jump on board with the improbability of it all, this really is made for dramatic entertainment purpose and not as a viable horror of the real world.

As a thriller it worked for me, the constant question of what is real or not keeps things on the slow burn. Either way, real or not, it's thought provoking enough to warrant staying till pics end. The psychological angle is pungent enough to say there's some thought in the writing, though this is undone by utter nonsense as things spiral into the impossible for the final quarter of film.

Foy is good value up front and the fulcrum of it all, while elsewhere good work comes from Nate Hoffman and it's nice to see Juno Temple in a spicy role. Ultimately this is no blood letting horror picture, and certainly it's no One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Girl Interrupted etc etc. 

The iPhone experiment is a gimmick that works here due to the confines of the location for story, but as a genre piece of worth it is unlikely to have legs. However, even though I enjoyed this as a one time only viewing experience, I perfectly understand why it has become divisive. So for those who haven't seen it yet then it is advised you understand this is no terrifying thrill a minute piece. It's tricky to recommend with any sort of confidence, and thus I feel the internet ratings of about 6.5/10 is just about right. 6.5/10

Gimly

Every time Claire Foy is not on the screen, the calibre of acting in _Unsane_ drops to laughable. I'm glad that Soderbergh is able to put together films for the seven-figure price range, but the fact of the matter is that the camera on an iPhone just isn't that good. It's decent enough to (in most scenes) get the visuals across, but never decent enough to not be a distraction. _Unsane's_ tale is relatively well told, but also something that's been done before, and considering the man in the director's chair, something that probably should have been done better too.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._