Majorthebys
Charming and brutal
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Leofwine_draca
AFTERDEATH is a silly, low budget British horror film with a high concept and very poor execution. It's one of those films which has a greyed out look to the cinematography which makes it quite depressing to watch and, in fact, a chore to sit through. The story has a bunch of the usual unlikeable characters waking up in a small house and discovering that they've died and are in a kind of limbo. They swear, drink, have sex a great deal, and are generally offensive so that you hope something bad happens to them and quickly. They also get menaced by lame CGI shadow creatures which rip-off the look of the Dementors in HARRY POTTER. I hated this one.
Michael Ledo
Robyn (Miranda Raison) wakes up "dead" in a world where she breathes but has no pulse. She enters a house where there are four other people, three of which are engaged in sex. It seems sex and alcohol is the favorite past time of the dead. The house has a sign "Tabula Rasa" which is Latin for "blank slate" or "clean slate" a clue that is later explained.Robyn is not content with staying there being vexed by the black smoke demon, lighthouse lights, and an enclosing bubble. Time is running out as out group attempts to brainstorm and confess their way out.This was a fairly good film, for what it was. Acting was decent. Effects were okay. The black smoke demon has become popular.Guide: F-bomb, sex, no nudity.
t-rexx-568-196825
Quite a good, refreshing, clever movie. Must not be seen as a horror movie. It stirs a lot of things inside, making the viewer think and project personal feelings, beliefs, explanations etc. onto the screen.The casting is surprisingly very good, especially the lead, tough as nail female character.Of course, the movie is far from perfect -but given its budget, it does do the job... There are holes in the narrative, some key elements of explanations are missing -how can you possibly have s*x when you've got no pulse???- but overall, there are minor misses.Not a film for avid gore or action seekers, though. They might quickly get bored. I've liked its sense of intimacy -well, I could even go so far as to talk about delicacy here- its rather gentle touch on a grave, often disturbing subject (life after death).A truly intimate movie overall, worth watching.
Roderick123
The intriguing title and spookily atmospheric poster promised an interesting watch – which turned out to be the case at the UK premiere.AfterDeath doesn't fit the standard categories - it's neither a slasher horror, a sci-fi adventure nor a supernatural fantasy, but combines elements of all these to create an eerily effective limbo where all possibilities still seem open. Four young women and one cocky young man find themselves thrust unwillingly into a standard issue and isolated 'cabin in the woods', although here it stands above a bleakly desolate beach and is absolutely not what it first seems. Forced to confront their past in an attempt to work out why they are there and how they might escape back into the land of the living, their problems grow when they discover that their world is shrinking and they are not alone……The small and nicely characterised ensemble cast is excellent and the growing unease over their predicament is well conveyed with a combination of splendid photography and very effective sound and visual effects. It's a high concept, low budget film with an interesting premise and plenty of twists that keep you continually guessing up to an outcome that will keep you talking long after you leave the cinema.An imaginatively realised debut film from the clearly talented co-directors.
