Unsane
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Where to Watch Unsane
- Joe G30 November 2025No amount of camera work, stylistic experimentation, or visual storytelling can save this terrible story. What begins with the promise of a psychological thriller quickly collapses into a poorly executed stalker film. The potential of its premise—could any of us prove we’re sane?—is completely ignored, leaving nothing but a wasted opportunity wrapped in technical ambition.
- Kevin Ward1 July 2025Finally caught up with this one. I’m a big fan of Soderbergh’s approach to filmmaking and cinematography. He’s not precious about form or format and I love that he’s kept that sort of indie spirit of calling up some buddies to just go someplace and make a movie. And this is a really solid contained thriller that really nails the paranoia of being involuntarily committed to a mental institution. That said, while the film doesn’t look terrible (I’m not docking any stars), the iPhone cinematography certainly doesn’t look very good, either.
Unsane Trivia
Unsane was released on 21 March 2018.
Unsane was directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Unsane has a runtime of 1h 38m.
Unsane was produced by Joseph Malloch.
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
The key characters in Unsane are Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy), David Strine (Joshua Leonard), Nate Hoffman (Jay Pharoah).
Unsane is rated 15.
Unsane is a Drama, Thriller, Horror film.
Unsane has an audience rating of 5.9 out of 10.
Unsane had a budget of US$1.5M.
Unsane has made US$14.3M at the box office.