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Man With A Data Plan: 'Unsane' Is Soderbergh's Shot-On-An-iPhone Thriller

Claire Foy stars in this low-budget, high-stakes horror film about a woman whose grasp on reality slips as she commits herself to a pysch ward.
Padded Cell-ular: Claire Foy stars in <em>Unsane, </em>director Steven Soderbergh's horror film shot entirely on an iPhone.

If a movie looks bad on purpose, does it still look bad? That is one of the mysteries at the heart of , a new horror flick about a woman who unknowingly commits herself to a psych ward. Other "asylum" thrillers in recent memory (, ) have used the occasion of this well-worn genre staple to pump up some lush, neo-Gothic production design, "committing" their audiences to sensory chambers that hearken back to the days of Hammer Films. This one, though, was

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