Review of Unnatural & Accidental (2006) by Karen F — 05 Mar 2008

It's hard to make anything but a real downer when your subject is the unnoticed murder of nearly a dozen derelict women during the 1990s. However, the film isn't so much adapted from a play as pulled from the stage (The playwright was heavily involved in the picture) and the premise of Rebecca being guided by the spirits of the murder victims works better on stage than it does here.

It's a story with visceral power, but it's lost in part through the too-faithful adaptation and the fact that the male lead doesn't want to be there.