Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘The Unwanted’

Written by Scott Edwards

Small towns are great places to visit in my opinion, but honestly, I don’t think I would be able to live in one. With so little going on and everyone in everyone else’s business, I don’t see the appeal at this point in my life. Maybe when I get older and cannot handle the kids playing their rock-n-roll music too loud, but I have a feeling that will be further down the road. But the people that live in small towns are great and most of the time, they have lived in the town for all of their lives. I can respect that, especially when they get into story telling mode and you learn all kinds of things about everyone who has left the town, and everyone that has chosen to stay.

Carmilla has been on the road for quite a while, trying to find out where her mother, Millarca, has headed off to next. Never meeting the woman, Carmilla is not afraid to think that she has passed on but would like to know what she was like when alive and hopes that the next town on her list will have some answers. Arriving at the last address she could find connected to her mother, Carmilla is given a cold shoulder from Troy the homeowner, but his daughter seems to be interested in why the stranger is looking for the woman. Being a waitress at the local diner, Laura, is able to get the details about what Carmilla is looking for and why. Finding out that Millarca is Carmilla’s mother, she is willing to open up and show the stranger the old trailer where the woman slept for nearly half a year.
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Laura has an idea to let the stranger rest and offers up the trailer for her stay, but needs to make sure that she gets her father’s okay as well. Laura is intrigued by Carmilla and wants to get to know her better and when inviting her out to a movie, Carmilla sees that the girl is much more excitable than she could imagine. When the two arrive back at the trailer for a night cap, Carmilla is interested why Laura will not leave the town, since there is a big world out there and she should be a part of it. Thinking that this is a good idea, Laura cannot pull the trigger on leaving, her life is here, and she has responsibilities. As the two start to form a little friendship, Carmilla finds out from Troy the secret about what happened in the house when Millarca was a guest and why he does not want to tell a story that is unbelievable. 

Being able to see the police report that housed her mother’s side of the story, Carmilla thinks that Troy is a monster and needs to get Laura as far away from him as possible. Leaving on a whim, Carmilla comes back to get Laura and gets more of the story about what happened between Millarca and Laura’s mother. As her story comes to a close, Laura then starts to confess her love for her new friend and believes that she should follow in her mother’s footsteps. As the two embrace; Carmilla has to formulate a plan to get her new lover out of the house and find a safe place to stay. But Laura refuses to leave the house and when her father finds out what is going on between the two, he knows the steps that need to be taken to protect his daughter from her mother’s fate.

This movie leads you to question what is more important in life, love for a stranger or love for your family. I liked how a little bit of the vampire aspect moved its way into the story and if you are watching this for the first time and did not read the plot on IMDB before watching, you would never have known. The breakdowns that Troy has to go through throughout the story, you might think that he was in the wrong, but he made it very apparent that his family would always come first. Laura seems to be a lost character that needs someone to give her direction, but without having a mother to give her advice, she has to put her trust to a stranger. I really liked Carmilla who did not come into the situation wanting to find anything other than what happened to her mother, she kept her eyes open and when the opportunity presented itself, well, she did not let it pass by. I liked how the movie played out and I did not see the ending coming, which is good in this manner of storytelling. Stay Scared.

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