Solidrariol
Am I Missing Something?
Motompa
Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
Joanna Mccarty
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Paul Kydd
Available on Blu-ray Disc (Region B)USA 2009 English (Colour); Horror/Thriller/Drama (Anchor Bay/Lleju/Plum/Constellation); 103 minutes (15 certificate)Crew includes: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (Director); Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk (Screenwriters); Brad Michael Gilbert, William O. Perkins III, Celine Rattray (Producers); Cooper Richey, Pamela Hirsch, Galt Niederhoffer, Catherine Kellner, Edwin L. Marshall, James Swisher (Executive Producers); Anastas Michos (Cinematographer); Ford Wheeler (Production Designer); Niven Howie (Editor); Paul Haslinger (Composer)Cast includes: Christina Ricci (Anna Taylor), Liam Neeson (Eliot Deacon), Justin Long (Paul Coleman), Chandler Canterbury (Jack), Celia Weston (Beatrice Taylor), Josh Charles (Tom Peterson), Shuler Hensley (Vincent Miller)"How can you save yourself if you're already dead?"A discontented schoolteacher (Ricci) wakes up immobile following a serious car accident, to be told by the solemn undertaker who is preparing her body (Neeson) that she is dead and is being helped to cross over to the afterlife, but her grieving boyfriend (Long) will not accept her death and confronts the mortician.Beautifully shot supernatural horror, with a striking prominence of the colour red (Ricci spends much of the movie in just a red slip, or naked), with Neeson bringing an ethereal gravitas to his role of the respectable and (apparently) kindly funeral director - or is he a serial killer?Subtle clues and an ambiguous ending enhance the mystery.Blu-ray Extras: Commentary, Featurette, Trailer. *** (6/10)
iznu
This is probably one of the most well written films i have ever seen. The writers of the film wrote it in two different perspectives.The film was written as if she was dead and at the same time as if she was alive. If two people were to argue over if she was dead or alive during the film they both would be completely right!The film follows a young lady who is depressed and is not appreciative of her life. She gets into an accident and is sent to a mortician who has the gift of speaking to the dead.The question that still lingers is whether or not he buried her alive or was she truly dead to begin with.I had to rematch the film two more times after the first watch and i was still unable to determine if she was dead or alive due to the brilliant writing of the film.
plutus1947
This is a very strange movie but nevertheless extremely watchable.SPOILER BEGINS This is the tale of a beautiful woman, Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) who walked out on her boyfriend, Paul Coleman (Justin Long) at a restaurant just before he was going to propose to her.She drives off crying and eventually is involved in a car accident and finds herself on an undertakers slab ready to be prepared for burial by Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson), the Funeral Director.Anna can move and speak and Eliot can see and hear her and of course Anna wants to know why she is where she is and Eliot tells her that the accident left her dead and he was going to prepare her for her funeral and burial. He even shows her a copy of her Death Certificate.He tells her that he has a gift of being able to see and speak to the dead.From then on it was a cat and mouse game between Anna and Eliot, she trying to convince him that she is still alive and Eliot trying to get Anna to accept she was dead.Before she ended up in the Funeral Parlour Anna was a schoolteacher and one of her students Jack (Chandler Canterbury) insisted that he saw her peering out of the window in the Funeral Home.SPOILER ENDS The wonderful thing about this movie is that you simply did not know whether Anna was still alive or indeed dead until the very last minute of the movie and the ending was for most people totally unexpected although I thought I had figured it out about a minute before all was revealed and I am glad to say I was right.However I am not going to reveal the outcome I thoroughly recommend that you watch this movie. The acting was superb but that is what you would expect from three such talented actors and the Direction was superb.The writers, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and Paul Vosloo must be congratulated on such a great script.A special mention should be given to Chandler Canterbury who played Jack the student at Anna's school. He is a very talented child actor, played his part wonderfully and given the chance I am sure he will become a well established adult actor.I feel you should be warned that Christina Ricci spent about 25% of the movie naked but in my case that was an enormous plus.I have no hesitation in recommending this movie and have given it an 8 star rating. 6 for the movie and 2 for Christina Ricci allowing us red blooded males the pleasure of seeing her superlative body.
hdavis-29
Or is it "turbid"? I think in this case, both apply. The pace is nothing short of funereal. What is the underlying theme here? Is it a horror flick? A heavy philosophical treatise on the meaning of life and death? Did anyone really know? It's not clear whether the writer ever had a grip on things and watched it get lost in the film's execution, or whether it remained this muddled at every stage. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this idea was pitched. How was Liam Neeson corralled into participating in this unfocused mess? It really is, as one reviewer suggested, a episode of Twilight Zone that runs three times normal length and compensates by showing us lots of Ms. Ricci's flesh. She's lovely, but I'm not sure she's worth that extra hour.
