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After.Life

After.Life

Drama · Horror · Mystery · 2009

Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

Movie details

After.Life

“Life is the symptom. Death is the cure.”

2009 Drama · Horror · Mystery 1h 43m

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TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Written by

Paul Vosloo · Jakub Korolczuk · Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci

Anna Taylor

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

Eliot Deacon

Justin Long

Justin Long

Paul

Chandler Canterbury

Chandler Canterbury

Jack

Josh Charles

Josh Charles

Tom Peterson

Celia Weston

Celia Weston

Beatrice Taylor

Shuler Hensley

Shuler Hensley

Vincent Miller

Court is in session

Put After.Life on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.