Following a near-fatal car accident, Sam wakes up in a hospital ward. After pressing the call button for assistance, he is promptly attacked by a male patient.
Fighting for survival, Sam manages to overpower the man and seemingly kill him. But the next moment, the patient’s body is back in his own hospital bed, as though nothing has happened.
Scared and confused, Sam removes his hospital gown and gets dressed. But another terrifying encounter has him fleeing his ward, and heading deeper into the hospital to hind help.
Meanwhile, in another part of the building Monica is about to undergo surgery. However, she encounters problems of her own, when she is attacked on the operating table.
After Sam rescues Monica, the pair explore the hospital. Here they encounter more people who are under threat.
Written and directed by Michael Winnick, Disquiet stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elyse Levesque, Rachelle Goulding, Trezzo Mahoro, and Lochlyn Munro. The movie is a low budget horror-thriller, which is new to Netflix from today, and it is… well… frankly a pile of tosh.
Disquiet tells the story of a confused man, in a confusing situation, in a movie that appears to have been confusingly slung together. The film is less a coherent well-structured picture, and more a series of random scenes held in place with sticky tape.
The script seems to have been written on a collection of napkins, and inspired by a fever dream, possibly brought on by watching too many episodes of The X-Files or The Twilight Zone. However, while this film may have been inspired by one of these classic shows, it certainly hasn’t been put together quite as competently.
I’d say the movie’s biggest problem is that it’s all over the place, but the acting in the film is pretty terrible too. Some of the line delivery is laughably bad and no one gives a convincing performance.
The dialogue is equally poor, as is the lighting, staging, and general level of tension. For a horror-thriller Disquiet is neither horrifying nor thrilling, it’s just a mishmash of reused ideas, filmed with someone’s hand on the dimmer switch, while lead star Jonathan Rhys Meyers runs around corridors with a bandage round his head.
On the plus side, it is relatively short, clocking in at around 85 minutes. The downside is everything else in the film.
Disquiet is absolute rubbish, plain and simple. It is derivative nonsense, which is not worth anyone’s time or energy.
I’ve watched it, a few others will have too, and I’d say that’s more than enough people. Let’s now just move on with our lives and forget this ever happened.
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