Director/writer: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo.
Afterlife is a film from independent director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo ("Pate"). Afterlife is her first feature film and the title reviewed here was released on DVD and Blu-Ray August 3rd, 2010 by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film hosts exceptional performances by the central characters, which include Liam Neeson (Taken), Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell) and Christina Ricci (Cursed). This often tense thriller takes on the ever elusive subject of: what happens after death? Just as in reality, this question is trying, but slightly redundant when bandied about for over a 100 minutes.
The film mainly focuses in on Ricci's character, Anna Taylor, who is involved in a fatal car accident. Her body is dead, yet her soul remains. To prepare her for death is a vitriolic mortician, played by Liam Neeson. His gift is speaking to the dead, which subdues the recently deceased and he prepares future clients...
Afterlife is a film from independent director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo ("Pate"). Afterlife is her first feature film and the title reviewed here was released on DVD and Blu-Ray August 3rd, 2010 by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film hosts exceptional performances by the central characters, which include Liam Neeson (Taken), Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell) and Christina Ricci (Cursed). This often tense thriller takes on the ever elusive subject of: what happens after death? Just as in reality, this question is trying, but slightly redundant when bandied about for over a 100 minutes.
The film mainly focuses in on Ricci's character, Anna Taylor, who is involved in a fatal car accident. Her body is dead, yet her soul remains. To prepare her for death is a vitriolic mortician, played by Liam Neeson. His gift is speaking to the dead, which subdues the recently deceased and he prepares future clients...
- 1/3/2011
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
What happens when you are so disengaged with your life that you live every day just making sure you do the basics that is expected of you? Do you take what life has given you and just toss it aside, not allowing life to give you something to actually live for? These are some of the questions that are raised by Director, and writer, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo in the film After.Life. Agnieszka fills out the cast of her independent film with some great talent as you will find Justin Long, Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson in this film. Ricci plays the young teacher Anna Taylor, who has begun to...
- 9/28/2010
- by Shawn Micallef, Green Bay Horror Movie Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Start: 10/07/2010 End: 10/17/2010 Start: 10/07/2010 End: 10/17/2010
Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's dramatic horror film After.life plays Spain at the The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival taking place 7th-17th October 2010.
After a horrific car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for burial. Confused, terrified and still feeling very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite Deacon’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Does Deacon really have the ability to communicate with the dead and the only one who can help her? Trapped inside the funeral parlour, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her death. But Anna’s boyfriend Paul still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Deacon isn’t what he appears to be. As Anna’s funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth. However, it could be too...
Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's dramatic horror film After.life plays Spain at the The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival taking place 7th-17th October 2010.
After a horrific car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for burial. Confused, terrified and still feeling very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite Deacon’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Does Deacon really have the ability to communicate with the dead and the only one who can help her? Trapped inside the funeral parlour, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her death. But Anna’s boyfriend Paul still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Deacon isn’t what he appears to be. As Anna’s funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth. However, it could be too...
- 9/20/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Hey everyone! I hope everyone is having a great week. There's a ton of movies releasing today onto DVD! So here are the one's I decided to highlight and then I will give ya a link to the rest cause there's literally 32 of them. I hope you all like the one's I did choose to highlight however!
Kick-Ass
Inspired by his love of comic books, high school student Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides to transform himself into a masked crime fighter -- a decision that eventually thrusts the teenager into Internet stardom. Soon, Dave's antics inspire a wave of would-be heroes to don costumes and live out their superhero fantasies. Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz also star in this comic book adaptation from director Matthew Vaughn.
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Loved it! Hit-Girl is the best part!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Middle school...
Kick-Ass
Inspired by his love of comic books, high school student Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides to transform himself into a masked crime fighter -- a decision that eventually thrusts the teenager into Internet stardom. Soon, Dave's antics inspire a wave of would-be heroes to don costumes and live out their superhero fantasies. Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz also star in this comic book adaptation from director Matthew Vaughn.
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Loved it! Hit-Girl is the best part!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Middle school...
- 8/3/2010
- by Mars
- GeekTyrant
The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
- 7/2/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
- 7/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The concept of this interesting little horror film was pregnant with promise: A young girl awakes on a mortician's slab convinced she's still alive while the mortician explains that she's dead and he's the only one who can help her over to the other side. From there, you've got two options: Is you is or is you ain't my dead body. For her first feature, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (no relation to the Mummy) does an outstanding job balancing your doubt with atmospheric creepiness and great performances from her two principal leads. You're never quite sure which way the wind will blow. Unfortunately, she manages this for about 40 minutes, until the whole house of cards completely collapses from arty-goth-porn into a bitterly cheesy B-grade slasher flick tarted up to look as slick and shiny as the ridiculous red slip Ricci runs around in. That is, when she's not spending the rest of the movie bare-ass naked,...
- 4/20/2010
- by Brian Prisco
Liam Neeson in a very silly fright flick.
Liam Neeson
Photo: Anchor Bay Films
"After.Life" is a horror movie without the courage of its grisly convictions. Without much in the way of convictions at all, actually.
Liam Neeson is Eliot Deacon, a suburban undertaker who has a special relationship with his deceased clientele. When Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci), a local schoolteacher fresh from a nasty car crash, comes to on his embalming table, she naturally wonders what's up. "You're dead," Eliot gently informs her. But Anna — struck by the fact that she is, after all, still wondering things — begs to disagree. This only makes Eliot pissy. "You all say the same thing," he snaps. And then, pricelessly: "Maybe you should rest now."
Eliot claims to have "a gift" for communicating with the dead. This might have made a nice little movie — 90 minutes of high-toned back-and-forth about the nature of death...
Liam Neeson
Photo: Anchor Bay Films
"After.Life" is a horror movie without the courage of its grisly convictions. Without much in the way of convictions at all, actually.
Liam Neeson is Eliot Deacon, a suburban undertaker who has a special relationship with his deceased clientele. When Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci), a local schoolteacher fresh from a nasty car crash, comes to on his embalming table, she naturally wonders what's up. "You're dead," Eliot gently informs her. But Anna — struck by the fact that she is, after all, still wondering things — begs to disagree. This only makes Eliot pissy. "You all say the same thing," he snaps. And then, pricelessly: "Maybe you should rest now."
Eliot claims to have "a gift" for communicating with the dead. This might have made a nice little movie — 90 minutes of high-toned back-and-forth about the nature of death...
- 4/9/2010
- MTV Movie News
After.Life
Directed by: Angieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Cast: Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Plot: A young woman (Ricci) gets into a fatal car accident and is taken care of by an undertaker (Neeson) who may or may not be able to speak to the dead.
Who’S It For?: People who enjoy sitting in on a stranger’s funeral.
Expectations: I knew nothing about this movie except that it starred Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson. I didn’t even read Calhoun’s trailer write-up!
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Liam Neeson as Eliot Deacon: In another movie, this cryptic funeral home owner might work. As a man with a purpose, Neeson is able to convince the audience he’s an undertaker who very well could have a special power to communicate with the dead. The story makes his character the right amount of odd,...
Directed by: Angieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Cast: Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Plot: A young woman (Ricci) gets into a fatal car accident and is taken care of by an undertaker (Neeson) who may or may not be able to speak to the dead.
Who’S It For?: People who enjoy sitting in on a stranger’s funeral.
Expectations: I knew nothing about this movie except that it starred Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson. I didn’t even read Calhoun’s trailer write-up!
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Liam Neeson as Eliot Deacon: In another movie, this cryptic funeral home owner might work. As a man with a purpose, Neeson is able to convince the audience he’s an undertaker who very well could have a special power to communicate with the dead. The story makes his character the right amount of odd,...
- 4/9/2010
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Plot: Anna Taylor is a young woman in a loveless relationship. She is wandering through life until she finds herself in a terrible accident. When she finally wakes up, she is greeted by a mortician. He explains to her that she was killed and that he has the gift to see and speak to the dead. Not ready to accept her death, he explains to her that it is a very natural reaction. But as time passes, she begins to question if she is truly not one of the living, or simply held captive by a...
- 4/7/2010
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
After.Life is moving towards a confirmed April 9th release date and now the first trailer is available for critique. In the trailer the central characters Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson), Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci), and Paul (Justin Long) are shown relating to one character's possible demise. But is she really dead, or part of a devious plan? This is the core plotline that is explored in After.Life and the answer will not be released until the end, guaranteed. Leave your own comments and expectations about the film below.
Tagline:
Life is the symptom. Death is the cure.
The synopsis for After.Life:
After a horrific car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna does not believe she is dead, despite the funeral director's reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife.
Tagline:
Life is the symptom. Death is the cure.
The synopsis for After.Life:
After a horrific car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna does not believe she is dead, despite the funeral director's reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife.
- 3/5/2010
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Here’s a poster for Agnieszka Wojtowicz’s feature film debut, “After.Life,” which stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles and Chandler Canterbury.
Co-written by Agnieszka and Paul Vosloo, the story centers on a young Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) caught between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) who holds her fate in his hands and who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead.
Check out also some photos from the upcoming horror movie “After.Life” which is scheduled to be released in Us sometime in 2010.
Co-written by Agnieszka and Paul Vosloo, the story centers on a young Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) caught between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) who holds her fate in his hands and who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead.
Check out also some photos from the upcoming horror movie “After.Life” which is scheduled to be released in Us sometime in 2010.
- 11/16/2009
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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