2016 Directed by André Øvredal
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
This could have been so brilliant.
The build up in this horror film, one that tries to play with the classic haunted house genre, is superb. It opens with a scene that imbues the film immediately with a great sense of mystery. We then cut to the location where the rest of the film will take place, an old crematorium come mortuary run by a father and son. The place oozes character and serves as a fantastic location for a horror film. There is this palpable feel of the dead, strengthened by the first autopsy scene.
There is an unnerving sense of realness to the corpses and the way the outstanding central duo (Cox and Hirsh) move around them. Director…
She won’t be receiving any awards attention for her role as an unidentified corpse in “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” but Olwen Catherine Kelly’s performance — in which she lies naked and motionless on a metal slab for 99 minutes — is a profoundly morbid testament to the notion that less is more. At first seeming more like a marvelously effective prop than she does an actual character, Kelly’s frigid corpse soon thaws into a gruesome display of the Kuleshov effect, her blank stare growing a touch more evil every time “Trollhunter” director André Øvredal cuts back to it.
The dark heart of a horror movie that begins as an atmospheric mystery before flatlining into something much schlockier, Kelly doesn’t…
props to any horror film willing to go for empathy when exploitation is so much easier, and to include a brief digression that gives the (usually tactless) animal death its proper emotional due
fun and silly while satisfyingly spooky! it's encouraging that this director is also doing scary stories to tell in the dark later this year 💀
A fine little movie that works SO well with what it’s doing from the start until it changes direction. It goes where it wants, and it’s not where I wanted it to go, which is on me. It just fails to be interesting after certain stuff starts and the mystery ends.
It has a bit of a slow start but it works in its favor. The suspense builds up to a nice rhythm. While the ending might be predictable it’s still worth watching.
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