The Unraveling

Zack Gold is excellent as the drug-addicted Michael, a junkie unable to quit his addiction despite the adoration of Jess (Cooper Harris), the stomach caressing girlfriend who has little to do except pout smugly for the duration. Her role is to be blissfully pregnant, and that's it: perhaps a waste of Harris's talents.

Michael and his daft friends embark on what appears to be a very unwise caper - jeopardising his job and travelling to an isolated forest to get drunk and argue.

I think what impresses me most about 'The Unraveling' is the acting - everyone plays their part well. The location is also very effective and well photographed. As for the story, well, ultimately it seems less than the sum of its parts and doesn't really succeed as a horror, despite a few lightly creepy moments. As a means of kicking an addiction, it doesn't survive any scrutiny, but it is an interesting premise. My score is 6 out of 10.

Well just finished ⌚ watching the horror movie 🎦 called the Unravelling and I thought what A well made little flick never. Mind what the other reviewers said. I found it quite entertaining and love 😍 and have many horror films myself

Michael, a drug addicted, gets abducted whilst at work by four guys wearing hoodies and hockey masks, he is bundled into the boot (trunk) of a car and taken out to the Californian backwoods. It turns out to be a bachelor party prank played by his friends. This is annoying and misleading because the DVD artwork (British release) shows the four hooded guys looking very menacing and gives the impression that they are gang of brutes. They drink beer, they play pranks and they camp but then, one by one, they are killed by killer/s unknown. Backwoods slasher movies were very popular back in the 1980's and this is a reasonable attempt at being one. But then comes a huge plot twist that completely ruined it for me, quite ridiculous and hard to swallow. Much of the acting is as wooden as the many trees that we see, there are some unsettling scenes of drug use but very little in the way of gore. This movie was never going to be better than average but that dumb ending was very disappointing. Thankfully the running time clocked in at under 80 minutes.

It's a rare thing when I give anything labeled horror more than a passing glance. The genre has become so completely oversaturated by teen slasher flicks, soulless gorefests and inferior remakes. Having said that I'd say this film doesn't quite fit any of those labels. Of course there have been enough horrors over the years for a pretty well defined list of tropes to be a known part of the movie-going consciousness, but at least this film attempts something different though it doesn't quite succeed in the end.

To my surprise this film pulled off drama better than most indie horror films I've seen. This film had a human element to it, where I felt like I was living the experience with Michael. It is a story of the human experience of life, love, and addiction. They do a profound job telling this story, taking their time with cinematic shots, dramatic and emotional music, and effective dialogue. A few parts fell flat but overall grab the popcorn, but don't expect just an edge of your seat thriller it was also heartfelt and well delivered.