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.
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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
Autopsie mit Plottwists
Was mir an diesem Film so gefällt ist sein Minimalismus. Die Handlung spielt sich in einem Haus und zum Großteil in einem Raum ab, der Cast besteht aus fünf Schauspielern, von denen eine weder Text, Mimik oder Gestik hat, und aus den sehr wenigen Elementen das Maximum an Story und Wendungen heraus zu kitzeln ist eine Kunst die ich total gerne mag.
Die Jumpscares haben mich eiskalt erwischt, die Atmosphäre hat mich ordentlich gegruselt und die Story nahm mehrere Wendungen, die ich nicht hätte erahnen können. Diese Überraschungsmomente und Stilmittel, bei denen sich mir die Nackenhaare stellen, machen diesen Horrorstreifen so innovativ und auf eine neue Art gruselig, dass ich hier nur die volle Punktezahl geben kann.
Fazit: The Autopsy of Jane Doe ist toll besetzt und überzeugt mit einer unerwarteten Liebe zum Detail und einer durch und durch runden Story mit klasse eingesetzten Plottwists. Bitte mehr davon!
It's worth a watch but when it's over a decade you see the whole idea, you can't help but feel like they under achieved in the execution. A rewrite, and a little budget (or simply not using scenes like when someone falls... that looked so cheesy) would have helped this immensely. It could have been fantastic.
A simply incredible first half. I was disgusted and terrified by the gore, practical effects, and atmosphere. The scares were mostly psychological and deeply disturbing. However, when the second half rolls around, the movie becomes more of an action thriller than a terrifying mystery. I wish that they had constructed a second half with just as much suspense and horror as the first, because this movie could have been a modern horror masterpiece. A must watch for any horror movie fans, gore fanatics, and/or mystery lovers. However, when you watch the movie, be prepared for a tonal shift at the half way mark.
It's like finding a bullet in the brain, but with no gunshot wound.
It’s a shame Emile Hirsch couldn’t body slam those ghosts like he did that female film exec
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