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Tell Me, Mum, When Your Little Girl's on the Slab, Where Will It Tickle You?

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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Earlier this week, TK ruminated on After.Life from relative newbie director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, a heady dark thriller with a fascinating premise: a woman wakes up from a carwreck in a funeral home only to have the funeral director try to convince her that she’s passing on to the next life and only he can see her. What makes it awesome is that you’re not really sure if he’s full of shit or if it’s all true.

They’ve finally released a trailer, and I gotta say, I’m less convinced than I was with TK’s assessment last week. This kinda of confirms the poster as spoiling everything that sounded awesome about the project. I’ll admit, with Liam Neeson on a mean streak — presuming we all allow ourselves to bow reverently when he bellows “Release the Kraken!” — he’s in full blown Darkman rage mode here. Which was a Sam Raimi flick. Now, my colleague raised some doubts about Justin Long’s role, but I must point out the most recent Raimi flick as his defense. While TK was little-girl screaming See No Evil to my cowardly Hear No Evil during our last SXSW outing, he might have missed how great Long was in just this exact role. Ricci’s the lag peg on this cribbage, but I still hold out that this might have some promise still. You be the judge.

And, no, TK. We will never ever let it go. Ever.










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Comments

Hmmm ... could be interesting. I just don't get a feeling one way or the other from the trailer ... Ricci looks like she was born to act in a casket though, doesn't she?

Posted by: , at March 4, 2010 10:45 AM

LURVE the title.

I can't watch the trailer now because of DAMNED WORK BLOCKERS but I'm still mildly interested.

Posted by: dammitjanet at March 4, 2010 10:48 AM

I'm guessing Liam's character is full of shit but it doesn't make the premise any less interesting. But Ricci needs to discover bangs. Girl, with a forehead like that, bangs are your best friend--trust me on this. I have a similar problem and after I got bangs, total strangers were coming up to me in school and telling me how much better I looked. Ricci has lovely eyes but they're totally overwhelmed by that giant blank slab of a forehead--she has more forehead than actual face.

Posted by: DeadBessie at March 4, 2010 11:00 AM

But she has bangs. Or had. I hope that they're still there and her pose in this picture blends them in with her hair.

http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2009/11/fug_or_fab_christina_ricci111009.html

Posted by: Scully at March 4, 2010 11:07 AM

I'm willing to give it a shot. Plus Ricci in skimpy clothing is never really a bad thing.

Posted by: admin at March 4, 2010 11:15 AM

Wait, why would Liam Neeson be yelling anything about the Kraken? Wasn't that Bill Nighy? Is there another friggin' movie with another friggin' Kraken?
Also, does anyone else find the sexifying of a corpse just a little troubling?

Posted by: Lannie at March 4, 2010 11:26 AM

Oh, good. Another Anchor Bay trailer that tells the whole film in two minutes. Saves me the trouble of caring until I can rent it on DVD.

Posted by: Robert at March 4, 2010 11:28 AM

Lannie. He's playing Zeus in the new Clash of the Titans. He says that line in the trailer.

I don't care what anyone says, Christina Ricci is beautiful and will always be one of my first celebrity crushes.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 4, 2010 11:47 AM

DeadBessie my husband has a thing about large foreheads. We can see the most beautiful woman walking down the street but if she has a large forehead he is immediately and completely "meh" about her. Strange because dude is married to me so obviously is not that concerned about looks in his significant other - although he assures me I have a nice normal sized forehead - but a large forehead is instant "blah". He says the same thing you do "Girl needs bangs."

Posted by: Kelly at March 4, 2010 11:57 AM

I want to like Christina Ricci, I really do. But, that voice! Oh, that voice. When she's banging on the door and attempting to yell/cry "Let me ooouuuut!" ....ugh.

Posted by: Kiddo at March 4, 2010 12:00 PM

I'm tentatively interested but skeptical. The preview looks like there could be a wholesale ripoff of Shamalamadingdong's "there's red in every scene and he's dead the whole time lolz!" from The Sixth Sense. If it turns out this thing has more too it, I'll show up with my 10 bucks and flask of Jameson.

Posted by: Roaddog at March 4, 2010 12:21 PM

Damn, Scully, she looks like a totally different person. Much better. It just seems like everything I've seen her in, there's this giant monster forehead completely distracting me. It hurts 'cause I like her and want her to look less weird, and it would take so little effort on her part.

Posted by: DeadBessie at March 4, 2010 12:37 PM

I'm still trying to be optimistic about this one. Decent suspense is so hard to come by these days in a theater, and Liam is such a great actor.

@Roaddog I got the same thing from the red - "oh look, it's the otherworldly vibrant red signifying the vitality of life, but she's dead! THE IRONY!". I think at this point it's becoming a cinematic trope.

I don't know why people rag on Ricci - guess the forehead thing just doesn't register with me. She has fantastically expressive eyes, but that's just looks. I think she still has some unrealized acting chops that are just seeking the right movie to let them out.

-Frob

Posted by: frobme at March 4, 2010 1:59 PM

Casting Liam Neeson will pretty much guarantee that I will see this.

Although I have to agree with Kiddo about Ricci's voice. Bleh.

Posted by: Jelinas at March 4, 2010 4:01 PM

I have to say from the trail, it looks pretty spoiled. She's not dead. Hoax being perpetrated by evil, creepy funeral director. Looks like a paycheck for Liam, but somehow the first speech struck me as creepy given his wife's bizarre brain-death accident. Can't he get a better script? If I'm prejudging and wrong, they need a better trailer.

Posted by: Marion at March 6, 2010 3:55 PM