Unsane (2018) - Blu-ray Forum

tomkatholic · 06-07-2018, 06:55 PM

Tried to find a thread for this Blu-ray release, but could only find one for the 4K. This is dated for release on June 19th but Amazon has broken street date and is currently shipping it now. Just got my copy delivered with slipcover!

Chaotic · 06-07-2018, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tomkatholic

Tried to find a thread for this Blu-ray release, but could only find one for the 4K. This is dated for release on June 19th but Amazon has broken street date and is currently shipping it now. Just got my copy delivered with slipcover!

Insane

tomkatholic · 06-07-2018, 09:38 PM

Clown
Posse

Darrin88 · 06-08-2018, 04:18 PM

Loved this movie. Anxious to get it.

The Great Owl · 12-29-2018, 07:12 PM

I'm going back and revisiting some of my favorite 2018 movies this weekend so I dove into the standard Blu-ray of my “future proof” 4K+UHD combo...

The Blu-ray looks and sounds great, but I wish that more extras were included.

Here's my old movie content review from a few months ago...

Sawyer Valentini, a young woman played by Claire Foy, has moved away from her home city of Boston to escape an obsessed man who has been stalking her for two years, despite the fact that she filed a restraining order against him and made changes to her everyday routines. As she settles into her new life of working as a financial analyst in Pennsylvania, she is still struggling with post-traumatic stress that is exacerbated by her inability to fit in with her co-workers and by her male employer's intimidatingly flirtatious behavior. As Sawyer paints a false rosy picture of her daily existence while talking on the phone with her mother and then later has a meltdown while meeting with a Tinder date, she establishes herself as an unreliable narrator.

In a desperate attempt to come to terms with her past, Sawyer seeks out support groups for victims of stalking and visits a local therapy clinic during her lunch hour to talk to a professional. After she casually signs an assortment of papers upon checking into the clinic, however, her entire life changes in an instant. During a terrifying chain of events, Sawyer's personal possessions are taken from her, her clothes are replaced by a hospital gown, and she is escorted to a psychiatric ward for an overnight stay upon learning that she has unwittingly given signed consent to be committed to the institution. When her assertive protests and violent reactions to this unexpected dilemma are interpreted by the hospital staff as self-destructive behavior, the medical authorities lengthen her term of stay to one week. Sawyer has no readily-available contact with the outside world, and she is forced to take medications for treatment. Her situation takes yet another alarming turn for the worse when she comes to believe that her stalker, played by Joshua Leonard, is actually working as an orderly at the clinic.

Unsane, the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, who has received mass critical acclaim for diverse features like Traffic (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001), has been hyped in the press because of the director's decision to shoot the entire movie with an iPhone. This unconventional format, while decidedly amateurish on the surface, enhances the invasive claustrophobia of the narrative during the uncomfortable close-ups of the characters in the hospital rooms, while the sequences that are filmed from a distance add to the paranoid notion that Sawyer is being observed on a constant basis by an unknown party.

For me, the most serendipitous side effect of Soderbergh's use of an iPhone to film Unsane is that, instead of lending a cloyingly pretentious artistic feel to the proceedings as I had feared beforehand, the often-disjointed and unskilled camera perspectives, along with the inherent lack of fine picture detail, remind me of the endearingly gritty low-budget 1970s horror films that I used to watch on the Elvira's Movie Macabre television series on Sunday evenings during my childhood in the early 1980s. Like those uncannily wondrous scary flicks that often looked as though they were filmed in someone's garage or backyard, this motion picture is constrained by its limitations to great result, even during the final half hour, when certain pivotal moments cry out for a more expansive production setup.

In terms of its storytelling, in fact, Unsane would have fit right in on an Elvira's Movie Macabre episode back in the day. Despite the godawful “psychological thriller” media description that compels seasoned moviegoers like me to roll our eyes, this is a pure horror movie through and through. I walked into the theater expecting a by-the-numbers ambiguous mental patient tale, only to find myself wanting to cheer out loud at this story's grisly twists. This is the type of B-movie horror mayhem that I live for, and, although I'm not sure if this was Soderbergh's intention, I applaud him for bringing the drive-in grindhouse cinema aesthetic of the seedy Times Square theaters of 1970s New York City to a widespread release in present day.

Unsane struck a nerve in my psyche for personal reasons, because, almost exactly a month ago, I spent six days in the hospital because of a ruptured appendix and a potentially deadly infection. As I watched Claire Foy's Sawyer being stripped and taken to a psychiatric ward, I thought of my own experience of checking into the emergency room expecting to be discharged that same afternoon due to a minor medial issue, only to lose my freedom during a prolonged hospital stay where I was almost completely helpless. As such, the disorienting lack of space depicted by this film's smartphone camera point-of-view resonates with me all the more.

This movie will not sweep up the Academy Awards nominations like Soderbergh's career peaks have done, but it nonetheless has my highest recommendation for those attuned to its special brand of old-school rudimentary horror exploitation.

06-07-2018, 06:55 PM	#1
tomkatholic Active Member Member since:Apr 2010	Unsane (2018) Tried to find a thread for this Blu-ray release, but could only find one for the 4K. This is dated for release on June 19th but Amazon has broken street date and is currently shipping it now. Just got my copy delivered with slipcover!

06-07-2018, 09:38 PM	#3
tomkatholic Active Member Member since:Apr 2010	Clown Posse

06-08-2018, 04:18 PM	#4
Darrin88 Active Member Member since:Nov 2017 Location:New Braunfels, TX 4K collection:65 Blu-ray collection:196 Digital collection:2082 Prime collection:5 Trading Score:117	Loved this movie. Anxious to get it.

12-29-2018, 07:12 PM	#5
The Great Owl Blu-ray Archduke Member since:Dec 2012 Location:Georgia 4K collection:921 Blu-ray collection:6031 DVD collection:28 Blu-ray reviews: 255 Trading Score:6	I'm going back and revisiting some of my favorite 2018 movies this weekend so I dove into the standard Blu-ray of my “future proof” 4K+UHD combo... The Blu-ray looks and sounds great, but I wish that more extras were included. Here's my old movie content review from a few months ago... Sawyer Valentini, a young woman played by Claire Foy, has moved away from her home city of Boston to escape an obsessed man who has been stalking her for two years, despite the fact that she filed a restraining order against him and made changes to her everyday routines. As she settles into her new life of working as a financial analyst in Pennsylvania, she is still struggling with post-traumatic stress that is exacerbated by her inability to fit in with her co-workers and by her male employer's intimidatingly flirtatious behavior. As Sawyer paints a false rosy picture of her daily existence while talking on the phone with her mother and then later has a meltdown while meeting with a Tinder date, she establishes herself as an unreliable narrator. In a desperate attempt to come to terms with her past, Sawyer seeks out support groups for victims of stalking and visits a local therapy clinic during her lunch hour to talk to a professional. After she casually signs an assortment of papers upon checking into the clinic, however, her entire life changes in an instant. During a terrifying chain of events, Sawyer's personal possessions are taken from her, her clothes are replaced by a hospital gown, and she is escorted to a psychiatric ward for an overnight stay upon learning that she has unwittingly given signed consent to be committed to the institution. When her assertive protests and violent reactions to this unexpected dilemma are interpreted by the hospital staff as self-destructive behavior, the medical authorities lengthen her term of stay to one week. Sawyer has no readily-available contact with the outside world, and she is forced to take medications for treatment. Her situation takes yet another alarming turn for the worse when she comes to believe that her stalker, played by Joshua Leonard, is actually working as an orderly at the clinic. Unsane, the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, who has received mass critical acclaim for diverse features like Traffic (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001), has been hyped in the press because of the director's decision to shoot the entire movie with an iPhone. This unconventional format, while decidedly amateurish on the surface, enhances the invasive claustrophobia of the narrative during the uncomfortable close-ups of the characters in the hospital rooms, while the sequences that are filmed from a distance add to the paranoid notion that Sawyer is being observed on a constant basis by an unknown party. For me, the most serendipitous side effect of Soderbergh's use of an iPhone to film Unsane is that, instead of lending a cloyingly pretentious artistic feel to the proceedings as I had feared beforehand, the often-disjointed and unskilled camera perspectives, along with the inherent lack of fine picture detail, remind me of the endearingly gritty low-budget 1970s horror films that I used to watch on the Elvira's Movie Macabre television series on Sunday evenings during my childhood in the early 1980s. Like those uncannily wondrous scary flicks that often looked as though they were filmed in someone's garage or backyard, this motion picture is constrained by its limitations to great result, even during the final half hour, when certain pivotal moments cry out for a more expansive production setup. In terms of its storytelling, in fact, Unsane would have fit right in on an Elvira's Movie Macabre episode back in the day. Despite the godawful “psychological thriller” media description that compels seasoned moviegoers like me to roll our eyes, this is a pure horror movie through and through. I walked into the theater expecting a by-the-numbers ambiguous mental patient tale, only to find myself wanting to cheer out loud at this story's grisly twists. This is the type of B-movie horror mayhem that I live for, and, although I'm not sure if this was Soderbergh's intention, I applaud him for bringing the drive-in grindhouse cinema aesthetic of the seedy Times Square theaters of 1970s New York City to a widespread release in present day. Unsane struck a nerve in my psyche for personal reasons, because, almost exactly a month ago, I spent six days in the hospital because of a ruptured appendix and a potentially deadly infection. As I watched Claire Foy's Sawyer being stripped and taken to a psychiatric ward, I thought of my own experience of checking into the emergency room expecting to be discharged that same afternoon due to a minor medial issue, only to lose my freedom during a prolonged hospital stay where I was almost completely helpless. As such, the disorienting lack of space depicted by this film's smartphone camera point-of-view resonates with me all the more. This movie will not sweep up the Academy Awards nominations like Soderbergh's career peaks have done, but it nonetheless has my highest recommendation for those attuned to its special brand of old-school rudimentary horror exploitation.

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