The Autopsy Of Jane Doe [DVD]

I watch a lot of horror films and it's rare that one spooks me as I'm quite desensitised and generally don't scare that easily, but I found 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe' to be a deeply unsettling watch.The film starts in a suburban house where local law enforcement are attending the scene of a multiple homicide and the body of 'Jane Doe' is located half-buried in the basement.Lieutenant Wade ominously predicts: "Nothing was stolen. Not a scratch on the outside of the house either. Doesn’t look like someone broke in...Looks like they were trying to break out".The rest of the film then plays out a local coroner's home/crematorium which is a family business run by father (Brian Cox) and son. They're busy conducting an autopsy (post-mortem for us Brits!) in a high-tech room set within the confines of an ancient moody looking building.The local Sheriff arrives with the body of Jane Doe wanting a cause of death by the morning, so the father and son team settle themselves in for the night, whilst they get to work. Outside a storm is brewing which adds to the tense atmosphere, which isn't helped by the radio station changing channels and playing a creepy song-a portent of things to come.It soon becomes apparent that this is no ordinary body and things start to go south very quickly. I won't provide any spoilers but this is a great horror film which I enjoyed just as much on the second viewing, as I did on the first. Well worth adding to your collection.

Excellent creepy horror film with lots of atmosphere the tone of dread maintains throughout and continues to the end. Saw a lot of horrors in 2017 it seemed like they were all the same just possession after possession after possession that it became tiresome and embarrassing. Out of the 30ish horror films I saw in 2017 only four including The Autopsy of Jane Doe were films I enjoyed. Annabelle Creation, Get Out and It all had there merits and few flaws only two were original and not sequels but compared to the huge amount of cheap forgettable horror movies like Rings, Eloise, The Bye Bye Man, Anna etc they are classics in my book. Set at a morgue late at night a Mortician and his son get a corpse which a police officer needs to be checked for the clues to how she died and who is responsible. Simple premise but with lots to enjoy from start to end lots of horror films could learn a lot from this. Both actors do a great job and the Director even more so. One of my favourite films of the year.

OK, this is a brill horror film, really atmospheric and well-acted, and not TOO reliant on jump-scares. The way the actress playing the corpse subtly changes her expression, widening or narrowing her eyes is very clever and effect. But for the love of Salem, can we PLEASE stop the narrative (very handy for male directors and viewers) that those accused of witchcraft were exclusively pretty young women? It just isn't true, and it made me feel uncomfortable watching the actress nude the whole way through, because she should have been an older, and ugly, woman. So I felt there was a reason she was not, and the reason was exploitation of her body and of male or lesbian interest.Old, ugly, lone women, conveniently with property, were overwhelmingly the targets of witchhunts - there's a reason illustrations of witches in old books look like they do!, and not like the glam Hammer wenches and so on. Society had no reason to want to kill off pretty young girls. Men needed them. They didn't own anything for the law to confiscate. People accused women who LOOKED like witches and didn't conform to husband, children and church. The authorities condemned them because they were seen as no use to anybody but generally had some property, being older, which they could then snatch.So why then the young-girl-witch trope? Some of it is fairly harmless, and feeds into the needs and psyche of girls nowadays - the glamour of power, control while you're still young - and that's fine, because those shows are written for them. Buffy, Charmed, Sabrina etc, etc. But when it comes to more serious fare, historical accuracy should dictate, not titillation. - which, let's face it, is clearly the director's intention on this one.

This is a brilliant film ,

Had been recommended thus by a friend. Very interesting although in my opinion a bit overated

Awesomeness move ,

Brian Cox at his best cracking little horror fantastic considering it's all filmed in one building nice and creepy.

It's a very scary movie in my opinion. Picked on the off chance, as I like horror genre. However this was very scary even for me.. Can recomment for thrill seekers.