But he reluctantly postpones in order to help Dad solve the puzzle of this newly arrived Jane Doe. Night is falling, and Austin is due to meet girlfriend Emma (Ophelia Lovibond) for a date. A sprawling subterranean labyrinth, the morgue is a long-established family business run by gruff widower Tony Tilden ( Brian Cox) and his son Austin ( Emile Hirsch). rights.įollowing a mysterious suburban massacre in a small Virginia town, police recover the half-buried body of a young woman ( Olwen Kelly) and drop her at the local morgue for an urgent postmortem. World premiered in Toronto’s Midnight Madness section last week, The Autopsy of Jane Doe makes its European debut at the London Film Festival next month. That said, this morbid three-hander slices through enough main arteries to quench the bloodlust of undemanding genre fans and horror-friendly festivals.

Not for the squeamish, Ovredal’s chilly slab of body horror ultimately proves less than the sum of its forensically fileted parts. setting, though it was largely shot on a London soundstage with a mostly European cast and crew. This contemporary exercise in American Gothic has a U.S. Norwegian director Andre Ovredal’s English-language debut, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, is more conventional in style and tone than his 2010 breakthrough film, the found-footage comedy thriller Trollhunter. For obvious reasons, morgues and morticians have long appealed to horror movie makers.

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