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LeZeeJun 26, 2017

The one corpse no coroner want to mess with!

And this is something different. Actually, no films are different these days, but it has succeeded to shape differently with an already known platform. Except the small parts of the opening andThe one corpse no coroner want to mess with!

And this is something different. Actually, no films are different these days, but it has succeeded to shape differently with an already known platform. Except the small parts of the opening and the ending, the rest of the story takes place in a postmortem room and its building. It is a one night story and revolves around two characters, a coroner father and his assistant son. After receiving an unidentified body to examine, the son decides to stay back with his dad by dropping out the plan to go a date with his girlfriend. As the procedure begins, the night goes on. But at the half way through, they begin to experience the strange events. And once it goes beyond their hands, they try to survive the threads that come their way which pretty much the rest of the film.

A short and sweet horror. I mean no sweet, but very effective theme. There are lots of things you won't understand, even the film does not explain them for us. But if you sit back and think about them after you have watched it, you would get many perspectives, like about the corpse, and what happened at the end. I could have revealed mine in here, but it would only spoil your watch if you are yet to see it. Overall, there's nothing serious you are going to miss any details. Except one question that nobody sure about is who is/was Jane Doe, I mean her background story that linked to this film event. Only a prequel would explain that. So I hope they make one quickly. Meantime, don't miss it if you're looking for a decent horror film. Because it's much better that any recent horrors.

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alejandro970Apr 26, 2017

Effective horror movie in minimalist and claustrophobic atmosphere. The minimal of cast -and the writer- does the best effort for cause the chills, altough in the climax the plot stumbles with own feet. No popcorn, please.

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ObiDonKenobiMay 11, 2017

Stephen King said that this film made him as tense as the original Alien did. I'm inclined to agree with him -- one of the best horror movies I've seen in a long time. Watch this movie at night by yourself.

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smodcastMay 20, 2017

No spoilers here, this came completely from left field. If you are a horror/suspense fan, you owe yourself this. For better viewing, skip the trailers and reviews and just get it. It works best when you're devoid of the premise.

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whitmorgan7Mar 10, 2017

A truly chilling, sometimes uncomfortable, thriller for the year.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe does it all. It makes you feel uncomfortable, it will send chills down your spine, it had me peeking through my fingers and saying oh my God. AndreA truly chilling, sometimes uncomfortable, thriller for the year.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe does it all. It makes you feel uncomfortable, it will send chills down your spine, it had me peeking through my fingers and saying oh my God. Andre Ovredal knew exactly what he was doing with this one, and he manages to get the job done in just under an hour and thirty minutes.

The film centers around Tommy and Austin Tilden, portrayed by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch respectively, a father-son coroner duo. Now, if I was going to pick a profession to have with my child, I don’t think I would choose to work in the morgue, but hey, you do you Tilden’s. First of all, let’s be real, any type of situation where a movie takes place in a dark basement morgue is gonna be a little creepy even if you don’t get scared easily. The bond you can see between the two characters is apparent from the very beginning of the movie. The characters are close, all each other has for the most part.

The beginning of the movie also shows us police discovering the body of a female buried in a basement of a home they were doing a raid on. She appears to have no signs of any kind of struggle on her body, nothing to indicate cause of death. The home doesn’t show signs of forced entry. So who is this woman, and what happened to her? We have our Jane Doe people.

We meet Austin’s girlfriend Emma, who seems like a real peach to be around. She tries to convince Austin to leave with her since they had plans, but he says he cannot leave his father until the job is done. He asks for a little bit of time and then he will meet her. You should have left Austin, you should have left. The police bring in ‘Jane Doe’ from the basement, and the two must figure out a cause of death. This will prove to be more difficult than either of them imagined.

You get to see all the gory details of an autopsy, and if you have a weak stomach you might want to cover your eyes. It’s bloody, disgusting, gory, and totally awesome. You know when you’re watching a thriller/horror film and a happy song starts playing on the radio or it starts storming it’s going to be bad, right? What about when both of those happen? Chaos is bound to follow. Now, I’m not going to give away any more details because I think you need to be one hundred percent invested in this movie while knowing the least amount as possible about it.

I haven’t watched a horror film that I enjoyed as much as this one in a while. There’s a little bit of a twist, lots of gore, and a few subtle, but well played scares. It’s worth the time and your undivided attention. It will make you never want to enter a morgue, I don’t know why you would EVER want to anyway, but if you ever had that feeling it will be gone after this. Olwen Catherine Kelly plays the part of Jane Doe, and while she doesn’t have to do much the entire film, her performance is the most chilling. Her face will be etched into your brain for the rest of the night. I already want to see what she’ll be doing next.

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DirigiblePulpDec 5, 2017

Day 24: Morgue fest continues, this time with one that comes somewhat touted and recommended.

Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox make up the cast and they're both good dependable co-leads. This film begins with a nearly suffocating claustrophobicDay 24: Morgue fest continues, this time with one that comes somewhat touted and recommended.

Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox make up the cast and they're both good dependable co-leads. This film begins with a nearly suffocating claustrophobic atmosphere, one in which the outside world can't possibly exist and there's only the starkly lit mildewy wooden paneled interior of an old family morgue. The mystery mounts and the two leads examine an inexplicable body, one in which they can't find a cause of death. The body is untouched and yet her insides show unbelievable trauma.

The mounting atmosphere and tension of the first half is unfortunately mishandled in the second half. The film becomes a rather bare-bones spooky jump scare exercise that leads to a shocking revelation that really does deliver (it's genuinely intriguing and so much more could have been done with it) on the first half's tension. There's no follow through.

There are great ideas here but a lack of focus in the middle, or maybe a fear that if jumps in the night didn't start happening soon the audience would get bored. It's the complete opposite.… Expand

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PanchogulApr 27, 2020

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

Sinopsis: Dos forenses, padre e hijo, investigan la muerte de una hermosa joven sobre la que nadie sabe nada. A medida que descubren más información, más se adentran en una telaraña de indicios y hechosThe Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

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Dos forenses, padre e hijo, investigan la muerte de una hermosa joven sobre la que nadie sabe nada. A medida que descubren más información, más se adentran en una telaraña de indicios y hechos extraños y desconcertantes.

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No tenía idea de esta película hasta que me la topé en un video top 10 de YouTube y fue una muy grata sorpresa, a simple vista da la impresión de ser una película al estilo Cadáver del 2019 pero lo único que comparten en común es que ambas se desarrollan en una morgue, aquí todo se basa en una autopsia que se por si empieza muy fuera de lo común al ver las anomalías de la mujer muerta con cara de maniquí, hasta que de a poco el thriller empieza a hacer acto de presencia solo para que al final corra el dicho de que la explicación mas simple casi siempre es la correcta, pero eso no lo veía venir claro está.

La trama es buena, pero su desarrollo y planteamiento es aún mejor por mas sencillo que parezca, las actuaciones son sólidas y creíbles, contiene uno que otro jumpscare, pero esta película es mas suspenso que terror, la verdad esperaba algo genérico y predecible, pero pese a la premisa sencilla, me atrapó desde el primer momento, muy buena … Expand

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TryASummersaultDec 24, 2016

An extremely eerie and truly foreboding mystery/horror film with fantastic premise and camerawork and great acting by Hirsch and Cox. It's highly unpredictable and very creative with some intriguing little points throughout. Definitely one ofAn extremely eerie and truly foreboding mystery/horror film with fantastic premise and camerawork and great acting by Hirsch and Cox. It's highly unpredictable and very creative with some intriguing little points throughout. Definitely one of the more under the radar horror genre films that should be watched.… Expand