Anatomie and Unrest a Med School Double Feature

Last night we (the royal we) had a head to head battle between the foreign film "Anatomy" and the American film "Unrest":
What was the same:
In each movie, a cute (female) first year medical student works is assigned a cadaver and realizes that something is amiss. The male professor doesn't appear to believe the problems the student perceives and dismisses the issue immediately and often. Each movie features scenes containing seemingly live dissection scenes that pale in comparison to what I remember of the visceral dissection scene in Robocop 3 (or was that 2?).

Unrest featured a blonde agnostic working on an American corpse from Brazil. I'm not sure how they knew the corpse was American, but they mention this fact more than once. This movie has a bunch of great ideas that end up going know where. The closest thing I have seen to this movie was "The Serpent and the Rainbow." It's an American film that alludes to voodoo and ancient gods of South America, but never really explains anything. People just kind of end up dead because of this cursed corpse. It's the South American equivalent of the curse of King Tut's Tomb, although the movie never says this.

The cast features attractive young adults who want to have sex, don't hook up, and as soon as they do, they die. Generic.

The professor in this movie reminds of Leonard Nimoy trying not to play a spock like character, but not being able to play anything else. It's not scary, it's predictable, but it's the movie equivalent of Pop-Rocks. If you haven't seen a horror movie in a while, and you are will to settle for something that seems like it would be refreshing, but only out of nostalgia, the movie will be what you expect. No big surprise, but the packaging is attractive.

Anatomie (Use different spellings in this post because I can't decide where the idea for the film originated) is actually trying to answer ethical questions and be a slasher film. First year medical students are assigned their corpses and one student recognizes a corpse as a dying yet lively young man she saved on a train.

I find anatomie interesting on a few levels. First, it attempts to answer the question "If we disregard the Hippocratic Oath and kill people to save lives, are we truly doing the morally correct thing or are we monsters?" I realize that "Extreme Measures" tackled the same idea in American film years ago, however, watching a film from a country that went fascist during WW2 made it more interesting for me. Second, the main character was not that cute (bold move) but her roommate was the attractive one. The last reason I found it interesting, I won't spoil for you.

Anatomie used every character efficiently, everyone who was introduced had a role to play, and they all fed into the story arc. No extemporaneous story lines and the main character interacted pretty well with all of them. If you have two hours to kill, and you don't mid dubbed horror movies that aspire to be more, it's not a bad way to spend an hour and a half.