Unsane(2018)
2018 · Steven Soderbergh · 98 min
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Horror · Thriller
6.31.7k votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How scary is Unsane?
It starts tight and claustrophobic, trapping you inside a psychiatric facility alongside a woman who isn't sure if she's actually in danger or losing her grip on reality, and it stays in that uneasy headspace for most of the runtime before tipping into more direct physical threat near the end. The camera work feels cheap and intimate on purpose, like security footage or a phone recording, which makes everything feel closer and more uncomfortable. There are no monsters or ghosts here, just a very real, very personal kind of dread about not being believed and not being in control of your own body or surroundings. It's more unsettling than gory, better suited to people who like tense, paranoid thrillers than to those looking for scares and jumps.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Unsane rates psychological 5/5, visceral 3/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 95 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 65 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A tense, claustrophobic slow build that keeps ratcheting up with only brief breathers, ending in a frantic, all-out final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4.
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