10 Horror Movies Scenes Shot For Real
2. Real Dead Bodies Were Used - Unrest
Joining Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist as one of those few horror pictures that opted to go very real when it came to human remains, Jason Todd Ipson's indie film Unrest went one step further than using actual skeletons.
Doing exactly what it said on the tin - with said tin being its trailers - this 2006 picture, focusing on a cadaver that is cursed and brings trouble to people who encounter it, put very real corpses on-screen throughout.
Away from being a unique way to sell the spooky movie to the horror crowd, seeing genuine dead bodies, and even autopsies, at various points in the film certainly makes those moments within the hospital morgue - again, a real one - feel that little more unsettling.
The director, who was actually a physician, too, would ultimately add that what his team did was "respectful of the dead and their spirits" when shooting the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival Best Picture for Horror winner, via Sknr.net.
This wasn't just a case of trying to freak people out with real images of the dead, though. According to Ipson, the aim here was to help viewers "really understand human anatomy and what death means".
That's one way to go about it.