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After.Life

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Original title

After.Life (Afterlife)

Year

2009

Running time

104 min.

Country

United States

Director

Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Screenwriter

Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk

Cast

Music

Paul Haslinger

Cinematography

Anastas N. Michos

Producer

Anchor Bay Entertainment [USA], Lleju Productions, Harbor Light Entertainment, Plum Pictures

Genre

Horror. Thriller

Synopsis

After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief—stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over the other side. With an unrelenting edge of menace, After.life is a stylish psychological thriller which provocatively questions the line between life and death.

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Critics' reviews

"The potent imagery never meshes with narrative logic in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's first feature, promising more than it can deliver."

Brian Lowry: Variety
"I don't think we're expected to take After.Life any more seriously than Ricci's last extended (near) nude role in the immortal "Black Snake Moan." That one was more fun"

Lou Lumenick: New York Post
"Caught in a pretentious no-man’s land between horror and melodrama"

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"Clean, precise and terribly sullen, After.Life is like its female protagonist. It feels stuck between worlds, or genres"

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"The only thing worse than bad horror is pretentiously bad horror. From title to finish, After.Life takes itself far more seriously than you will."

Elizabeth Weitzman: New York Daily News
"Icky, nasty, calculatingly odd and a little funny, though more often strained and inadvertently absurd, After.Life changes its mood and apparent intentions from scene to scene, sometimes minute to minute."

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"After this and "Black Snake Moan," it might be time for the talented actress (Ricci) to keep her clothes on."

Frank Scheck: The Hollywood Reporter
"So many horror conventions are at work in After.Life that either the filmmakers are parodying them or couldn't come up with anything better. I'm betting on the second choice."

Walter Addiego: SFGATE

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