In the second of this weeks podcasts/interviews, host Stuart Wright talks Winter Ridge with director/producer Dom Lenoir. The film, which stars Matt Hookings, Olwen Catherine Kelly and Hannah Waddingham, tells the story of a young detective whose life is torn apart after his wife ends up in a coma while hunting a serial-killer at the same time. You can check out our review of the film right here.
Winter Ridge opens in cinemas from 5th September 2018. For listings and tickets see their Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/WinterRidgeFilm/events/?ref=page_internal...
Winter Ridge opens in cinemas from 5th September 2018. For listings and tickets see their Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/WinterRidgeFilm/events/?ref=page_internal...
- 9/5/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Stars: Matt Hookings, Olwen Catherine Kelly, Hannah Waddingham, Michael McKell, Justin McDonald, Alan Ford, Ian Pirie, Noeleen Comiskey, Claudia Archer, Ella Road, Liana Harris | Written by Ross Owen Williams | Directed by Dom Lenoir
Winter Ridge is rapidly becoming the little British movie that could! Having all ready picked up a bunch of awards on the circuit, The movie, its director Dom Lenoir, and cast are about to embark on a strong festival run through 2018 that will undoubtedly see the movie picking up more awards and critical acclaim… making the lads at British production company Camelot Films and up-and-coming powerhouse performer Matt Hookings, ones to watch.
Winter Ridge opens really strong with the harrowing sound of a car crash (props to the sound guy). You have no time to prepare for the story that is coming your way, instead the audience is just thrown in at the proverbial deep end. We...
Winter Ridge is rapidly becoming the little British movie that could! Having all ready picked up a bunch of awards on the circuit, The movie, its director Dom Lenoir, and cast are about to embark on a strong festival run through 2018 that will undoubtedly see the movie picking up more awards and critical acclaim… making the lads at British production company Camelot Films and up-and-coming powerhouse performer Matt Hookings, ones to watch.
Winter Ridge opens really strong with the harrowing sound of a car crash (props to the sound guy). You have no time to prepare for the story that is coming your way, instead the audience is just thrown in at the proverbial deep end. We...
- 7/3/2018
- by Ryan Kershaw
- Nerdly
Halloween always provides a good excuse to celebrate scary movies, but as anyone keen on the genre knows, it’s never really a bad time to do that. That’s especially been true this year, long before “It” broke box office records. Just a few months into 2017 and it was already a banner year for genre films, with “Get Out” becoming a cultural phenomenon, new horror festivals generating headlines, and other promising developments that send a positive message to genre fans. While the industry worries about the future of moviegoing and the quality of the art form in a blockbuster-dominated era, horror fans have nothing to worry about — the genre is secure, but only if you know where to look.
Keeping up our annual tradition, here’s an overview of 13 of the very best horror indies produced over the last 12 months, all of which are available to rent, on streaming platforms or in theaters.
Keeping up our annual tradition, here’s an overview of 13 of the very best horror indies produced over the last 12 months, all of which are available to rent, on streaming platforms or in theaters.
- 10/31/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Autopsy of Jane Doe Review The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) Film Review, a movie directed André Øvredal, and starring Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Olwen Catherine Kelly, Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, and Parker Sawyers. The Autopsy of Jane Doe was one of the best horror films of the [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: The Autopsy Of Jane Doe (2016): A Good Narrative Undone By Its Ending...
Continue reading: Film Review: The Autopsy Of Jane Doe (2016): A Good Narrative Undone By Its Ending...
- 4/22/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Stars: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Olwen Kelly, Ophelia Lovibond | Written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing | Directed by Andre Ovredal
Grantham, Virginia. A house-full of grisly murders. The body of an unidentified female is found half-buried in the basement.
Down the road is the Tilden Mortuary and Crematorium, a family business that has been running for almost a century. Inside, Tommy (Brian Cox) and Austin (Emile Hirsch), father and son, go about their autopsy work with rock music blaring, entirely comfortable in their mentor and apprentice roles.
Except Austin doesn’t see his future in this business. He and his girlfriend (Ophelia Lovibond) plan on moving away, breaking the Tilden family chain. But then, in classic “final job” style, the Jane Doe from the murder house is delivered to the autopsy table.
The sheriff needs a cause of death, so Tommy and Austin have one night to unveil the mystery. The...
Grantham, Virginia. A house-full of grisly murders. The body of an unidentified female is found half-buried in the basement.
Down the road is the Tilden Mortuary and Crematorium, a family business that has been running for almost a century. Inside, Tommy (Brian Cox) and Austin (Emile Hirsch), father and son, go about their autopsy work with rock music blaring, entirely comfortable in their mentor and apprentice roles.
Except Austin doesn’t see his future in this business. He and his girlfriend (Ophelia Lovibond) plan on moving away, breaking the Tilden family chain. But then, in classic “final job” style, the Jane Doe from the murder house is delivered to the autopsy table.
The sheriff needs a cause of death, so Tommy and Austin have one night to unveil the mystery. The...
- 4/3/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Ryan Lambie Mar 31, 2017
The director of Trollhunter and now The Autopsy Of Jane Doe talks to us about how to make a truly suspenseful horror movie...
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is a very different kind of horror film. Set largely in one location - a Virginia morgue - it's all based around one mystery: the identity and history of a mysterious dead body. Almost perfectly preserved, pale eyes staring, the young woman's corpse (the Jane Doe of the title) is gradually dissected by father-and-son coroners Tommy and Austin (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch respectively). And the more layers they peel back, the more troubling Jane Doe's story becomes.
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Directed by Norway's André Øvredal, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is a lean, finely-honed exercise in suspense. For much of the movie, we're watching Cox and Hirsch at work,...
The director of Trollhunter and now The Autopsy Of Jane Doe talks to us about how to make a truly suspenseful horror movie...
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is a very different kind of horror film. Set largely in one location - a Virginia morgue - it's all based around one mystery: the identity and history of a mysterious dead body. Almost perfectly preserved, pale eyes staring, the young woman's corpse (the Jane Doe of the title) is gradually dissected by father-and-son coroners Tommy and Austin (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch respectively). And the more layers they peel back, the more troubling Jane Doe's story becomes.
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Directed by Norway's André Øvredal, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is a lean, finely-honed exercise in suspense. For much of the movie, we're watching Cox and Hirsch at work,...
- 3/30/2017
- Den of Geek
Ryan Lambie Mar 28, 2017
Creepy sets, gore, a sweary Emile Hirsch and lots of gallows humour. We visited the set of indie horror, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe...
Nb: The following contains some saucy language and discussions that some may consider Not Safe For Work.
Half an hour out east on the Hammersmith & City Line, across a busy dual carriage way, just down from a branch of Tesco’s and tucked away in an old warehouse, about 200 people are making a horror film.
The warehouse interior is now, thanks to the ingenuity of production designer Matt Gant and a few dozen set builders, a basement mortuary in Virginia. There are long corridors. Low lighting that picks out the Victorian wallpaper but leaves corners shrouded in deep shadow. A junk-strewn room houses a man-sized furnace, something the production designer jokingly refers to as “the pizza oven”, but is actually a place where...
Creepy sets, gore, a sweary Emile Hirsch and lots of gallows humour. We visited the set of indie horror, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe...
Nb: The following contains some saucy language and discussions that some may consider Not Safe For Work.
Half an hour out east on the Hammersmith & City Line, across a busy dual carriage way, just down from a branch of Tesco’s and tucked away in an old warehouse, about 200 people are making a horror film.
The warehouse interior is now, thanks to the ingenuity of production designer Matt Gant and a few dozen set builders, a basement mortuary in Virginia. There are long corridors. Low lighting that picks out the Victorian wallpaper but leaves corners shrouded in deep shadow. A junk-strewn room houses a man-sized furnace, something the production designer jokingly refers to as “the pizza oven”, but is actually a place where...
- 3/27/2017
- Den of Geek
Trollhunter director André Øvredal returns with the effective, gory chiller, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe. Here’s our review...
Aside from the odd mobile phone and ungentlemanly curse word here and there, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe could have sprung from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe. Set in the present though it is, there’s a macabre, gothic tone to director André Øvredal’s first English-language film that makes it almost timeless.
Somewhere in Virginia, a family is found dead in their own home, the crime scene bloody and the doors locked from the inside. The mystery’s heightened further when the police venture into the basement: there, partly buried in the ground, lies the corpse of a young woman. Keen to figure out the cause of death, the police bag the woman's body up and take it to the local mortuary - a family-run business run by Tommy...
Aside from the odd mobile phone and ungentlemanly curse word here and there, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe could have sprung from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe. Set in the present though it is, there’s a macabre, gothic tone to director André Øvredal’s first English-language film that makes it almost timeless.
Somewhere in Virginia, a family is found dead in their own home, the crime scene bloody and the doors locked from the inside. The mystery’s heightened further when the police venture into the basement: there, partly buried in the ground, lies the corpse of a young woman. Keen to figure out the cause of death, the police bag the woman's body up and take it to the local mortuary - a family-run business run by Tommy...
- 3/17/2017
- Den of Geek
Reviewed by Jesse Miller,
MoreHorror.com
A father and son team of coroners are planning to close up shop for the night when the local police drop a Jane Doe in their laps and requests a cause of death for the press by the next morning. With no time to argue, they get to work on dissecting what's going on.
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe plays out almost like a theater production, with two leads playing off of each other in the one location trying to uncover this bizarre situation they are in while the story also explores their relationship.
In that regard, it is absolutely masterful in its execution of tension as the film goes on and things get stranger and stranger.
Praise has to be thrown to the film makers here for their attention to detail and shocking reveals. Every twist, every turn of events, every little thing...
MoreHorror.com
A father and son team of coroners are planning to close up shop for the night when the local police drop a Jane Doe in their laps and requests a cause of death for the press by the next morning. With no time to argue, they get to work on dissecting what's going on.
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe plays out almost like a theater production, with two leads playing off of each other in the one location trying to uncover this bizarre situation they are in while the story also explores their relationship.
In that regard, it is absolutely masterful in its execution of tension as the film goes on and things get stranger and stranger.
Praise has to be thrown to the film makers here for their attention to detail and shocking reveals. Every twist, every turn of events, every little thing...
- 1/29/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Don't you hate when a movie's trailer ends up being way better than the movie itself? No genre suffers from this more than horror. When a trailer for a scary movie is stuffed with its biggest jump scares and not-so-subtle hints at a twist ending, it simultaneously entices audience members into the theater while also spoiling their eventual viewing experience. If the best parts are in the trailer, then what's the point of even watching? When the trailer for The Autopsy of Jane Doe was released in December it almost immediately went viral, and though I was interested in it straightaway, I couldn't help but wonder if it was yet another flimsy horror movie skating by on trailer-friendly scares. Fortunately it delivers, and then some. Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox star in the indie flick as father-son coroners tasked with performing an autopsy on a mysterious young woman, and the...
- 1/17/2017
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
She won’t be receiving any awards attention for her role as an unidentified corpse in “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” but Olwen Catherine Kelly’s performance — in which she lies naked and motionless on a metal slab for 99 minutes — is a profoundly morbid testament to the notion that less is more. At first seeming more like a marvelously effective prop than she does an actual character, Kelly’s frigid corpse soon thaws into a gruesome display of the Kuleshov effect, her blank stare growing a touch more evil every time “Trollhunter” director André Øvredal cuts back to it.
The dark heart of a horror movie that begins as an atmospheric mystery before flatlining into something much schlockier, Kelly doesn’t have to move a muscle in order to command your full attention. No matter how far “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” slides off the rails, she lies there stiff as a board,...
The dark heart of a horror movie that begins as an atmospheric mystery before flatlining into something much schlockier, Kelly doesn’t have to move a muscle in order to command your full attention. No matter how far “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” slides off the rails, she lies there stiff as a board,...
- 12/21/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
2016 has been a relatively good year for horror films and it’s going to end on a high note with a creepy thriller that premiered in the Toronto Film Festival’s “Midnight Madness” track this past September.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is the new film from Troll Hunter director André Øvredal, and it stars Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as a father and son pathology team who perform autopsies in their funeral home and who have been assigned to perform such an operation on the corpse of a naked body found buried in a home where another crime was committed. As they start cutting away at this mysterious “patient,” strange things start happening around them from power failures to storms, and things escalate, they start to think that the body they’re working on may be responsible. But first, they have to figure out how this woman was killed…...
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is the new film from Troll Hunter director André Øvredal, and it stars Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as a father and son pathology team who perform autopsies in their funeral home and who have been assigned to perform such an operation on the corpse of a naked body found buried in a home where another crime was committed. As they start cutting away at this mysterious “patient,” strange things start happening around them from power failures to storms, and things escalate, they start to think that the body they’re working on may be responsible. But first, they have to figure out how this woman was killed…...
- 12/19/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
From director André Øvredal—who also wrote and directed 2010’s Trollhunter—The Autopsy Of Jane Doe features Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as a father-son coroner team who are tasked with performing an autopsy on an unidentified woman who may have been murdered. As you might expect, nothing is really as it seems, and each incision the boys make creates more questions than answers. The A.V. Club has an exclusive clip from the film that is certainly not for the squeamish, featuring Olwen Kelly as the corpse.
Jane Doe features wonderfully creepy set design and makes terrific use of color and lighting, giving the film a very distinct—and very stylish—look. But don’t worry, gorehounds, there’s plenty of icky gore as well. On top of all that, Cox and Hirsch turn in deft performances as the coroner father and his son, who may not want ...
Jane Doe features wonderfully creepy set design and makes terrific use of color and lighting, giving the film a very distinct—and very stylish—look. But don’t worry, gorehounds, there’s plenty of icky gore as well. On top of all that, Cox and Hirsch turn in deft performances as the coroner father and his son, who may not want ...
- 12/7/2016
- by Mike Vanderbilt
- avclub.com
André Øvredal’s last feature, the monster mockumentary Trollhunter, was thrillingly irreverent — a cruelly funny movie that turned Norwegian mythology into a riotous adventure. That subversive streak heralds his English-language debut, a high-concept horror thriller set in a morgue where not all is as it seems. “Every body has a secret” says Brian Cox’s Austin as he digs into the mysterious new cadaver they’ve just been delivered.
That corpse is the Jane Doe of the title, a body found untouched at the scene of a gruesome triple homicide. The cops on hand say there’s no evidence of a break into their home, and, instead, the deceased – whose blood is splattered colorfully on the walls – looks as if they were “trying to break out.” With no leads, the local sheriff sends this Jane Doe to be investigated by the local mortuary to see if they can pick out any clues.
That corpse is the Jane Doe of the title, a body found untouched at the scene of a gruesome triple homicide. The cops on hand say there’s no evidence of a break into their home, and, instead, the deceased – whose blood is splattered colorfully on the walls – looks as if they were “trying to break out.” With no leads, the local sheriff sends this Jane Doe to be investigated by the local mortuary to see if they can pick out any clues.
- 10/25/2016
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
"This autopsy will be conducted in four stages..." IFC has debuted another teaser trailer for the upcoming indie horror The Autopsy of Jane Doe, which received some rave reviews out of Fantastic Fest last month. We posted the first very brief teaser for the film then, but this new teaser sheds even more light on the creepy ghost story. Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox play father-son coroners who receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. "Perfectly preserved on the outside, Jane Doe's insides have been scarred, charred and dismembered." As they begin to go to work, things start to get very creepy - as you'll see in this trailer below. This film also stars Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, Parker Sawyers, and Olwen Kelly. The footage in this new teaser was enough to seriously scare me and make me fearful of ever watching this, and it probably...
- 10/12/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In his English-language debut, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Norwegian director André Øvredal takes a more conventional, straightforward approach to storytelling than he did with his 2010 breakthrough horror comedy, Trollhunter, and the results are downright riveting. Anchored by two strong performances from Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch, The Autopsy of Jane Doe moves with a laser-focused sense of precision, with the mystery surrounding the titular corpse growing more intriguing the more that’s revealed about her state. With his latest directorial effort, Øvredal has proven himself to be an accomplished storyteller in two languages.
After a blood-soaked murder shocks a sleepy small town in Virginia, local police are baffled to find the corpse of an unknown woman buried inside the basement of the crime scene. With the police seeking answers for who this woman is and what happened to her, the corpse is dropped off at the local mortuary run...
After a blood-soaked murder shocks a sleepy small town in Virginia, local police are baffled to find the corpse of an unknown woman buried inside the basement of the crime scene. With the police seeking answers for who this woman is and what happened to her, the corpse is dropped off at the local mortuary run...
- 10/4/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Families who cut open cadavers together stay together. That, at least, is the vibe given off by “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” a thriller starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as a team of father-son coroners whose latest corpse provides more questions than answers. Watch the film’s first teaser trailer below.
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“The Autopsy of Jane Doe” marks the English-language debut of Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal, who previously directed “Trollhunter.” The minute-long ad doesn’t show Cox and Hirsch performing what are typically thought of as the standard duties of a mortician, but the two of them do seem rather afraid of whatever’s on the other side of the door they’ve barricaded themselves behind. (Spoiler: It’s probably Jane Doe).
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“The Autopsy of Jane Doe” marks the English-language debut of Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal, who previously directed “Trollhunter.” The minute-long ad doesn’t show Cox and Hirsch performing what are typically thought of as the standard duties of a mortician, but the two of them do seem rather afraid of whatever’s on the other side of the door they’ve barricaded themselves behind. (Spoiler: It’s probably Jane Doe).
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- 9/26/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox star in a new horror thriller called The Autopsy of Jane Doe in which they play a father and son who run a morgue. They receive a mysterious homicide victim, and as they proceed with the autopsy and strange discoveries are made, strange supernatural things start to happen.
The first teaser trailer for the film has been released, and it looks like a solid and intense horror thriller. The film was directed by Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal who is the same guy who made Trollhunter. I'm 100% on board with watching this flick because it seems like it could be nightmarishly fun. Here's the detailed synopsis:
Experienced coroner Tommy Tilden and his grown-up son Austin run a family-owned morgue and crematorium in Virginia. When the local Sheriff brings in an emergency case -- an unknown female corpse nicknamed 'Jane Doe', found in the basement of a...
The first teaser trailer for the film has been released, and it looks like a solid and intense horror thriller. The film was directed by Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal who is the same guy who made Trollhunter. I'm 100% on board with watching this flick because it seems like it could be nightmarishly fun. Here's the detailed synopsis:
Experienced coroner Tommy Tilden and his grown-up son Austin run a family-owned morgue and crematorium in Virginia. When the local Sheriff brings in an emergency case -- an unknown female corpse nicknamed 'Jane Doe', found in the basement of a...
- 9/26/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
"We're trapped down here!" IFC Midnight has debuted a short teaser trailer for an indie horror film titled The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a new thriller about morticians who encounter a "Jane Doe" body unlike any other. Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox play father-son coroners who receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. "Perfectly preserved on the outside, Jane Doe's insides have been scarred, charred and dismembered." As they begin to go to work, they discover "increasingly bizarre clues" that hold the key to her terrifying secrets. This also stars Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, Parker Sawyers, and Olwen Kelly. This is from the same Norwegian filmmaker who made Trollhunter. Reviews from Fantastic Fest say it has "endlessly intriguing mystery, great tension". Take a look at the teaser below. Here's the teaser trailer (+ poster) for André Øvredal's The Autopsy of Jane Doe, via IFC's Facebook: Here's...
- 9/25/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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