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I Sell the Dead
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 6 |
Studio : | Glass Eye Pix, |
Crew : | Assistant Art Director, Co-Art Director, |
Cast : | Dominic Monaghan Larry Fessenden Ron Perlman Angus Scrimm Joel Marsh Garland |
Genre : | Drama Horror Comedy |
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The Worst Film Ever
Excellent adaptation.
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
While awaiting the guillotine, a man recounts the story of him and his partner's quest to dig up the bodies of the dead to deliver to a doctor for medical study, and how one such encounter lead to them encountering the dead walking the Earth.On the whole this one was an enjoyable if flawed effort. The biggest effort holding this one back is that hardly anything at all happens in here, as the action scenes here are so infrequent that it really stumbles around with its pacing. Concentrating on how they're going about grave-robbing as successfully as they are for as long as this one does really affects this one at rather large segments of time without offering a lot of interesting scenes here, and that also manages to expose other flaws here. by forgoing the horror action, there's other scenes here that need to take up that time which comes in the form of several lame subplots that don't impart much action on the action, as the involvement of the girlfriend serves nothing here with their relationship not really providing the obstacle it's supposed to be for them to keep their business secret. There's never anything about her discovering them and the scenes weren't all that integral to what's going on for the pace, while the constant scenes interrupting the plot going back to the jail cell aren't all that well-done either as it goes back to simply see what's already been given in the plot so there just eat up time needlessly. As well, the comedy here is a little goofy and not up to many individual's tastes here with the sound and music gags for many not really being funny which does come up as a potential problem. Overall, all of these combine together into long stretches of problematic scenes here that hold it down yet still offers some rather fun times here when it was doing something that these here are fun enough. The main fun comes from the second half as that's where the zombie action is mostly centered around, as it mostly starts with the eerie journey to the island with the night-time setting and heavy fog masking the source of the growls coming off incredibly atmosphere before the chaos and panic once they find the box containing the captive zombie and how he gets loose providing some stellar action in the escapes and encounters as well as giving off some solid gore. Likewise, despite not really offering a lot of action the opening does have some stellar atmospheric shots of the two out and about grave-robbing which is full of creepy and rather chilling scenes throughout here. Along with the creepy make-up, these here make up the films' best parts here with these hold it up, though as a zombie film this is lowered due to their lack of screen-time.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
Entertaining black comedy. Doesn't have the poignancy, depth, or biting wit to be truly great or emotionally involving, but is still better than 95% of what's out there. The stuff that's gruesome is pretty tame by modern standards. For some reason, the way the film hit me is how I remember the original "Beatlejuice", which isn't a bad thing. Not a horror flick at all or even a very dark comedy--more along the lines of a very good late night horror spoof. I just popped some corn, kicked back and had an uncomplicated good time.
This movie turned out to be well worth the watch.One of the hobbits from Lord of the Rings Trilogy, teams up with the legendary Ron Perlman, to bring us a humorous Gothic tell of two grave robbers who sell bodies they dig up to mad scientist types. Sounds like a strange business to be in, but apparently their are a few movies about this particular subject set during the Victoria era of Britain, where this may have been a common way for the medical profession to get corpses to study, which makes the story even more Erie than it already is.I did not have any expectations when I watched the film, but I ended up being well entertained by the whole thing. It's a fun movie to see.
This film is a poor attempt at comedy and horror. It has mild frights and even milder humor.The movie drags on for far too long and really is not very well cast.The most annoying thing about this tripe is the accents that some of the actors attempt to put on. Especially Monaghans character as a kid. The majority of Irish accents are laughable apart from the odd actual Irish person who got a role in the movie(you can spot the real accents very easily).Some scenes look like they where thrown together after the movie was finished to fill in the time.Please save yourself a few quid and rent/buy something else.