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 [email protected] (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Well, folks, 2010 is officially in the can, and unlike 2009 horror movie fans took it in the can a lot less this year. Sure the last twelve months had its fair share of lows, but it also brought us a couple of new classics. As always we covered every single one of them mostly in great detail for you.
Now, with a fresh movie-watching start before us, we're taking our usual yearly look back at the good, the bad, the Wtf, and everything in between.
Don't just read along, though ... give us your lists in the comments section below. We wanna hear from you regarding what we nailed and what we dropped the ball on, so let the games begin!
Dig on our Best of and Worst of lists for 2010 by following the links below!
[The Buz]
[Thom Carnell]
[The Foywonder]
[Heather Wixson]
[Gareth Jones]
[MattFini]
[Nomad]
[The Woman in Black]
[Uncle Creepy]
[Andrew Kasch]
The Buz's Picks
As per usual I failed this year as a horror fan and a movie fan in general.
Now, with a fresh movie-watching start before us, we're taking our usual yearly look back at the good, the bad, the Wtf, and everything in between.
Don't just read along, though ... give us your lists in the comments section below. We wanna hear from you regarding what we nailed and what we dropped the ball on, so let the games begin!
Dig on our Best of and Worst of lists for 2010 by following the links below!
[The Buz]
[Thom Carnell]
[The Foywonder]
[Heather Wixson]
[Gareth Jones]
[MattFini]
[Nomad]
[The Woman in Black]
[Uncle Creepy]
[Andrew Kasch]
The Buz's Picks
As per usual I failed this year as a horror fan and a movie fan in general.
- 1/2/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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
Like, what's the deal, Neil?
Neil isn't a real person.
In the past 5 years I've seen women horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directors representing at least one third of all genre film festival screenings in the United States and in Europe. This year, not so. While there are a few features making the rounds, the same ones appear in all the fests and often they're the Only film directed by a woman in the entire lineup.
Check it out:
Horror/drama After.life, directed Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, already made a theatrical release in the USA and was recently screened in the United Kingdom at London Frightfest alongside only one other horror film by a woman (Hélène Cattet co-directed the awful giallo Amer with Bruno Forzani) and the violent action flick Isle of Dogs by Tammi Sutton and is now in the official lineup for Sitges, Spain. Unless there are films Sitges has not announced yet,...
Neil isn't a real person.
In the past 5 years I've seen women horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directors representing at least one third of all genre film festival screenings in the United States and in Europe. This year, not so. While there are a few features making the rounds, the same ones appear in all the fests and often they're the Only film directed by a woman in the entire lineup.
Check it out:
Horror/drama After.life, directed Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, already made a theatrical release in the USA and was recently screened in the United Kingdom at London Frightfest alongside only one other horror film by a woman (Hélène Cattet co-directed the awful giallo Amer with Bruno Forzani) and the violent action flick Isle of Dogs by Tammi Sutton and is now in the official lineup for Sitges, Spain. Unless there are films Sitges has not announced yet,...
- 9/19/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Sitges 2010:
Exorcisms, Vampires, Zombies, Martial Arts And Liters Of Blood At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place from 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup, with some films still to be confirmed, for the following sections:
Sitges 43 Official FANTÀSTIC Selection - In Competition
The official selection par excellence will be offering a lineup emphasizing a variety of nationalities (Bulgaria, Japan, France, Swede, Uruguay,...), the impact of new South American cinema, the rebirth of oriental cinema and the mixture of supernatural horror movies with exorcisms, vampires and mutants and everyday horror with real extreme violence.
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, Japan)
14 Days With Victor (Román Parrado, Spain)
A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (Zhang Yimou, China, Hong Kong)
Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo, South Korea)
Black Death (Christopher Smith, Germany)
La Casa Muda (Gustavo Hernández, Uruguay)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima,...
Exorcisms, Vampires, Zombies, Martial Arts And Liters Of Blood At Sitges 2010
The 43rd Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, that will take place from 7 to 17 October, presents its lineup, with some films still to be confirmed, for the following sections:
Sitges 43 Official FANTÀSTIC Selection - In Competition
The official selection par excellence will be offering a lineup emphasizing a variety of nationalities (Bulgaria, Japan, France, Swede, Uruguay,...), the impact of new South American cinema, the rebirth of oriental cinema and the mixture of supernatural horror movies with exorcisms, vampires and mutants and everyday horror with real extreme violence.
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, Japan)
14 Days With Victor (Román Parrado, Spain)
A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (Zhang Yimou, China, Hong Kong)
Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo, South Korea)
Black Death (Christopher Smith, Germany)
La Casa Muda (Gustavo Hernández, Uruguay)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima,...
- 9/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
If I had the holiday time left, I’d be booking a trip to España right about now. The 43rd annual Sitges kicks off on October 7th and their line up so far is impressive. Damned impressive.
In competition are Gregg Araki’s Kaboom (teaser, stills), Christopher Smith’s Black Death (review), Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (trailer), Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (clip) and Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins among many others. In competition in the Panorama section are another great set of films including Shion Sono’s Cold Fish (trailer), Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage (trailer), Jim Mickle’s Stake Land (trailer) and Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film (review).
If those titles aren’t enough, there’s loads more including Rob Stefaniuk’s vampire musical road trip film Suck (review, trailer), James Wan’s Insidious (clip), Adam Green’s Frozen (trailer), Black Lightning (trailer), Super (clip), The Vanishing on 7th...
In competition are Gregg Araki’s Kaboom (teaser, stills), Christopher Smith’s Black Death (review), Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (trailer), Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (clip) and Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins among many others. In competition in the Panorama section are another great set of films including Shion Sono’s Cold Fish (trailer), Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage (trailer), Jim Mickle’s Stake Land (trailer) and Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film (review).
If those titles aren’t enough, there’s loads more including Rob Stefaniuk’s vampire musical road trip film Suck (review, trailer), James Wan’s Insidious (clip), Adam Green’s Frozen (trailer), Black Lightning (trailer), Super (clip), The Vanishing on 7th...
- 9/17/2010
- QuietEarth.us
After.Life
Stars: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long | Written by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk | Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Neeson) 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 (Long) 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 late; Anna may...
Stars: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long | Written by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk | Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Neeson) 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 (Long) 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 late; Anna may...
- 9/8/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Anchor Bay have been kind enough to give us 5 copies of their latest movie, After.Life to give away. The movie stars Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, is directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and is available to buy on DVD and Blu ray today.
Stylish and sophisticated, After.Life is an unique psychological thriller set in a funeral parlor where nothing is as it seems. Featuring stellar performances from Christina Ricci (Sleepy Hollow, Speed Racer), Liam Neeson (The A-Team, Taken)and Justin Long (Accepted, Drag Me to Hell) this is a guessing game where life or death is the prize. Out to buy on DVD and Blu-ray 6 September After.Life will keep you hooked to the deathly end.
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna...
Stylish and sophisticated, After.Life is an unique psychological thriller set in a funeral parlor where nothing is as it seems. Featuring stellar performances from Christina Ricci (Sleepy Hollow, Speed Racer), Liam Neeson (The A-Team, Taken)and Justin Long (Accepted, Drag Me to Hell) this is a guessing game where life or death is the prize. Out to buy on DVD and Blu-ray 6 September After.Life will keep you hooked to the deathly end.
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna...
- 9/6/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There are some awesome new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week, so head down to your nearest movie emporium and snap these up pronto:
Kick-Ass (dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2010) – Arguable one of the most original, funny action packed super hero movies we’ve ever seen, this tale of a young boy wanting to make the wrongs in the world right will have you laughing from beginning to end. Starring Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson and the C Word swearing 13 year old Chloe Moretz, the controversial entertainment and originality of narrative is more than likely going to top the charts.
The Last Song (dir. Julie Anne Robinson, 2010) – Another soppy love story starring a singer with her own songs creating the soundtrack. Miley Cyrus takes on a more serious role and tries to rekindle her love for the father who she’s become resentful of after her parent’s divorce. Perfect for the lovers of tear-jerkers.
Kick-Ass (dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2010) – Arguable one of the most original, funny action packed super hero movies we’ve ever seen, this tale of a young boy wanting to make the wrongs in the world right will have you laughing from beginning to end. Starring Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson and the C Word swearing 13 year old Chloe Moretz, the controversial entertainment and originality of narrative is more than likely going to top the charts.
The Last Song (dir. Julie Anne Robinson, 2010) – Another soppy love story starring a singer with her own songs creating the soundtrack. Miley Cyrus takes on a more serious role and tries to rekindle her love for the father who she’s become resentful of after her parent’s divorce. Perfect for the lovers of tear-jerkers.
- 9/6/2010
- by Kelly
- Nerdly
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
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: "Essentially, Wimpy Kid is only slightly better than its trailers ("Wanna see my secret freckle? It's got a hair in it!") would suggest, and it's sort of like "The Wonder Years" with much less charm and no sense of nostalgia. Unlike the young Fred Savage, actor Zachary Gordon doesn't make us feel for Greg, who isn't so much an anguished soul trapped in a short kid's body but, instead, a conceited, opportunistic, and unfeeling prick with an inexplicably inflated sense of self worth. At home, Greg has a sadistic older brother Rodrick (Devon Bostick) and inattentive parents Susan (Rachael Harris) and Frank Heffley (Steve Zahn, nooooo) who are portrayed as idiots. At school, fellow outcasts Fregley (Grayson Russell) and Rowley (Robert Capron) are company; the latter is Greg's best friend from grade school, who is suddenly a huge embarrassment with a girly bike, rotund body,...
- 8/3/2010
- by Intern Rusty
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A look at what's new on DVD today:
"A Prophet" (2009)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
Audiard's ("The Beat That My Heart Skipped") ridiculously cool prison drama well earns its over two-and-a-half hour runtime -- the transformation of relative newcomer lead Tahar Rahim from illiterate mouse to underworld kingpin never seems forced or unnatural. Rahim's impressive, as is Niels Arestrup as the head of the jail's Corsican mob, but overshadowing both is the film's portrait of a multicultural (if criminal) population that looks nothing like the cast of your average French import. (Matt Singer's review from February.)
"After.Life" (2009)
Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Released by Starz/Anchor Bay
Christina Ricci is dead! But she's not dead. Unless she died! Or did she? In Wojtowicz-Vosloo's feature debut (following her acclaimed 2001 short "Pâté"), Liam Neeson plays a funeral director who's either a sadist plays elaborate mindgames on Ricci's character, or...
"A Prophet" (2009)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
Audiard's ("The Beat That My Heart Skipped") ridiculously cool prison drama well earns its over two-and-a-half hour runtime -- the transformation of relative newcomer lead Tahar Rahim from illiterate mouse to underworld kingpin never seems forced or unnatural. Rahim's impressive, as is Niels Arestrup as the head of the jail's Corsican mob, but overshadowing both is the film's portrait of a multicultural (if criminal) population that looks nothing like the cast of your average French import. (Matt Singer's review from February.)
"After.Life" (2009)
Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Released by Starz/Anchor Bay
Christina Ricci is dead! But she's not dead. Unless she died! Or did she? In Wojtowicz-Vosloo's feature debut (following her acclaimed 2001 short "Pâté"), Liam Neeson plays a funeral director who's either a sadist plays elaborate mindgames on Ricci's character, or...
- 8/3/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Chicago – Loyal readers will know that I am often forgiving of bad horror films merely due to my love for the genre but there’s nothing that can save “After.Life” from the company of the worst movies of 2010. The copious nudity from Christina Ricci and the admittedly interesting premise may draw those who haven’t seen it to this monumentally stupid film but prepare to lose a few brain cells in the process.
DVD Rating: 1.0/5.0
A common criticism of horror films is that too many writers have been inspired by great anthology shows like “The Twilight Zone” or “The Outer Limits” and they fail to realize that while their idea may be interesting enough to have made a great half-hour episode of television, it falls apart when stretched to the running time of a feature film. If you’re ever trying to make this point in the future, “After.Life” would...
DVD Rating: 1.0/5.0
A common criticism of horror films is that too many writers have been inspired by great anthology shows like “The Twilight Zone” or “The Outer Limits” and they fail to realize that while their idea may be interesting enough to have made a great half-hour episode of television, it falls apart when stretched to the running time of a feature film. If you’re ever trying to make this point in the future, “After.Life” would...
- 8/2/2010
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A new clip from Anchor Bay's latest thriller, After.Life, which is crashing onto Blu-ray and DVD this coming August 3rd, has surfaced, and we've got the goods for you right here.
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Delving Into The After.
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Delving Into The After.
- 7/29/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Hide the kids and shut your office door! We just got our hands on a very Not Safe For Work clip from Anchor Bay's latest thriller, After.Life, which is crashing onto Blu-ray and DVD this coming August 3rd.
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,...
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The release of Anchor Bay's After.Life is only a few weeks away and to build excitement for the debut, Anchor Bay has delivered another clip for the film. The clip below is entitled "Anna's Scary Dream" and the brief video shows haunting images, ghost-like movements, and one woman partly in the land of the living and partly in the land of the dead. Check out the clip below courtesy of Horror Society.
The synopsis for After.Life:
"In After.Life, Anna’s (Christina Ricci) quest for love and happiness takes a macabre turn when, after a car accident, she wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body. He calmly tells her she’s dead. Her funeral is in three days time. As Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her death, her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) begins to suspect Eliot may...
The synopsis for After.Life:
"In After.Life, Anna’s (Christina Ricci) quest for love and happiness takes a macabre turn when, after a car accident, she wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body. He calmly tells her she’s dead. Her funeral is in three days time. As Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her death, her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) begins to suspect Eliot may...
- 7/18/2010
- by [email protected] (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
With its August 3rd release date just around the corner, we got our claws into a brand new clip from Anchor Bay's forthcoming release of After.Life. Dig it!
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Delving Into The After.Life: The Art of Making a Thriller,...
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Delving Into The After.Life: The Art of Making a Thriller,...
- 7/14/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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
Christina Ricci. Naked. Now those are selling points, my friends, and you'll get them along with a whole lot of spooky when Anchor Bay releases its latest thriller After.Life onto Blu-ray and DVD this coming August 3rd. To get you geared up, we got our hands on the official home video trailer for you to dig on!
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just...
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead but might just...
- 6/22/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Check out the DVD and Blu-ray specs and cover art for the horror flick “After.Life” below, which is due out August 3, 2010 from Anchor Bay Entertainment: Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He’s Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment (Pre-Book July 1st). Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive. Srp is $29.98 for the DVD and $34.98 for the Blu-ray™ edition. The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,...
- 6/9/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Anchor Bay will be releasing After.Life, starring Christina Riccia, Justin Long and Liam Neeson, August 3rd. The film, recently, had a limited theatrical showing April 9th and now the available special features are available for the film. Included in both the DVD and Blu-Ray formats are a making of featurette "Delving Into The After.Life: The Art of Making a Thriller," director commentaries and the original theatrical trailer. In this film Anna takes on a funeral director in a conflicted test of reality and sanity. Have a look at all the available details in this stand-out feature before the release August 3rd.
The synopsis for After.Life here:
"In After.Life, Anna’s (Christina Ricci) quest for love and happiness takes a macabre turn when, after a car accident, she wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body. He calmly tells her she’s dead.
The synopsis for After.Life here:
"In After.Life, Anna’s (Christina Ricci) quest for love and happiness takes a macabre turn when, after a car accident, she wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body. He calmly tells her she’s dead.
- 6/1/2010
- by [email protected] (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Wonder when you're going to be able to feast your eyes upon the very naked Christina Ricci in Anchor Bay's new thriller After.Life (review here)? You friggin' pervert! Though who can blame you?
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Delving Into The After.
From the Press Release
Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace), Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Penelope), and Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me to Hell) star in the psychological thriller After.Life, on DVD and Blu-ray™ on Tuesday, August 3rd from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and released theatrically by Anchor Bay Films, After.Life tells the story of a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death and a funeral director (Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive.
The After.Life DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features include audio commentary with Co-Writer/Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Delving Into The After.
- 5/27/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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
Do you prefer actors who works from the inside out or the outside in?Michele Mulroney and Kieran MulroneyLos Angeles; co-directors and co-screenwriters, 'Paper Man'Good work is good work, no matter how you get there. However, it's thrilling to witness character-building based on externals. An actor puts on a piece of wardrobe and suddenly his or her posture changes. Those tangible, external choices are satisfying because, as a director, you can actually participate in the actor's often mysterious process by picking out the shoes you think that character might wear. We're big on the physicality of a character. It provides such an important shorthand in the visual medium we work in.In "Paper Man," for example, Emma Stone had a very specific way of walking—dragging her feet—which she developed for the character of Abby. It spoke volumes about how this girl was stuck, emotionally speaking. Similarly,...
- 4/13/2010
- backstage.com
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
Rating: 1.0/5.0
Chicago – “After.Life” is one of the first truly awful films of 2010. Its aggressive solemnity combined with its head-slapping silliness will cause most viewers to simply laugh it off the screen. There’s at least two possible ways to interpret its murky story, and they’re both ludicrous. The only mystery guaranteed to linger in moviegoers’ minds is the inexplicable motivation of Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson to take part in this direct-to-video dreck.
First-time feature director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo tries far too hard to get a reaction out of her audience. There are countless instances where loud clangs are heard on the soundtrack, followed by characters asking Ricci (and presumably the viewer), “Are you scared?” Frankly, there were more scares in “Casper.” The filmmakers spend so much time making noise that they forget to build suspense. Paul Haslinger’s irritating score has perhaps the greatest overuse of suspended cymbal rolls in film history,...
Chicago – “After.Life” is one of the first truly awful films of 2010. Its aggressive solemnity combined with its head-slapping silliness will cause most viewers to simply laugh it off the screen. There’s at least two possible ways to interpret its murky story, and they’re both ludicrous. The only mystery guaranteed to linger in moviegoers’ minds is the inexplicable motivation of Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson to take part in this direct-to-video dreck.
First-time feature director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo tries far too hard to get a reaction out of her audience. There are countless instances where loud clangs are heard on the soundtrack, followed by characters asking Ricci (and presumably the viewer), “Are you scared?” Frankly, there were more scares in “Casper.” The filmmakers spend so much time making noise that they forget to build suspense. Paul Haslinger’s irritating score has perhaps the greatest overuse of suspended cymbal rolls in film history,...
- 4/9/2010
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 1.5/5
Writers: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Cast: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Josh Charles
Studio: Anchor Bay Films (U.S. Distribution)
What happens after you die? Or, more specifically, what happens during that weird, in-between time when you’re dead, but not yet put safely into the ground or spread on the wind or kept on someone’s mantle? Oh, you haven’t wondered about that, have you? Luckily, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo has.
Read more on Theatrical Review: After.Life…...
Writers: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Cast: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Josh Charles
Studio: Anchor Bay Films (U.S. Distribution)
What happens after you die? Or, more specifically, what happens during that weird, in-between time when you’re dead, but not yet put safely into the ground or spread on the wind or kept on someone’s mantle? Oh, you haven’t wondered about that, have you? Luckily, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo has.
Read more on Theatrical Review: After.Life…...
- 4/9/2010
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
There's a scene in which a pervy police officer sneakily cops a feel of Christina Ricci's very nude and very cold body that pretty much sums up Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's debut feature, the unnervingly creepy "After.Life." I mean, the writer-director couldn't possibly be serious about a movie in which a mortician named Eliot addresses the corpses he's fixing up as "you people" -- and gently complains they're "in denial" about being dead. Eliot is played by the great Liam Neeson with considerably more restraint than his concurrent role as...
- 4/9/2010
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
Horror is such a male dominated genre, it's always refreshing to talk to a female horror director and I always jump at the chance when the opportunity arises. Such was the case with Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and her chilling thriller After.Life which hits theaters tomorrow from Anchor Bay. We took some time to chat with Agnieszka about her A-list cast, being influenced by Polanski and Argento and why death scares her so much. FEARnet: Can you tell us how After.Life, your first feature length film came about? Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo: I was still in school, I made Pâté my freshman year, and it won a bunch of awards and opened many doors for me. I got an agent very quickly, and I was offered stuff...
- 4/9/2010
- FEARnet
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Title: After.Life Directed By: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo Starring: Christina Ricci, Justin Long, Liam Neeson, Chandler Canterbury Everyone wonders what happens when you die. The fact that nobody knows the answer turns the concept of passing on into an everlasting goldmine of opportunity for the film industry. You can revisit the subject over and over and always come up with something new. After.Life certainly proposes a novel scenario, but bogs it down with cliche filmmaking techniques so much, you’ll be hoping we all just die and go to heaven; end of story. Christina Ricci plays Anna, a somewhat happy teacher in a somewhat happy relationship. Her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) is kind, caring and, most [...]...
- 4/8/2010
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
Just when an editorial was coming to mind lamenting the absence of female directors in horror, in comes Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, an eager, talkative Nyu grad whose short film earned kudos and propelled her into the director's seat on After.Life , a confidently made psychological thriller starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long and Josh Charles. Here, Ricci is faced with relationship lethargy and after a spat with her fella (Long) she winds up in a car wreck and wakes up on the slab in Eliot (Neeson) Deacon's funeral home. Is she dead? It seems so, however, Eliot speaks and interacts with her. So what's the deal? We turn to the young director of the film to learn more. Shock Till You Drop: Let's briefly talk about the journey from your short film to your...
- 4/8/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Anchor Bay's latest limited release film arrives in theaters this weekend, After.Life, which stars Christina Ricci as a young woman in a transitional state between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director (Liam Neeson) who holds her fate in his hands. Bloody Disgusting's BC caught up with director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo to chat about life, death and the chills behind waking up on a a slab in a prep room of a funeral home (can you imagine that? Yikes!) Click the title for more info on the film or here for the full interview.
- 4/8/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s a very rare occurrence that this writer has the opportunity to speak with female directors in the horror genre, which is why I was very happy to interview Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo about her upcoming supernatural thriller After.Life, which hits theaters in limited release this Friday courtesy of Anchor Bay.
Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s own personal journey to get After.Life made is compelling enough to be its very own movie. The young director came to the United States from Warsaw to study film at Nyu, and during her freshman year at the University she made her presence as an up-and-coming storyteller felt immediately. Pate, a short film she did for Nyu, was selected to debut during the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Wojtowicz-Vosloo spoke about how Pate’s involvement in the prestigious festival changed her life forever.
“Usually at Sundance the short films get overlooked,” said Wojtowicz-Vosloo. “That’s why it was so surprising...
Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s own personal journey to get After.Life made is compelling enough to be its very own movie. The young director came to the United States from Warsaw to study film at Nyu, and during her freshman year at the University she made her presence as an up-and-coming storyteller felt immediately. Pate, a short film she did for Nyu, was selected to debut during the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Wojtowicz-Vosloo spoke about how Pate’s involvement in the prestigious festival changed her life forever.
“Usually at Sundance the short films get overlooked,” said Wojtowicz-Vosloo. “That’s why it was so surprising...
- 4/7/2010
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
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After.Life is one of those creepy films that sets up a certain reality and then simply builds on it, accruing suspense and chills as it goes. Alternatively, you could look at this feature debut by director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo as contrived horror: an easily unraveled premise which, in retrospect, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I guess it depends on what you're in the mood for. Inevitably, however, the latter overtakes the former because the script by Wojtowicz-Vosloo and Paul Vosloo can't help painting itself into a corner. If you can swing with the vision being built by Wojtowicz-Vosloo (typing that name actually makes me appreciate the pretentious moniker McG), then After.Life is a modest and effective little tale, one that is unafraid to take its time and wring the maximum flavor out of each carefully crafted moment. The film stars Christina Ricci...
- 4/6/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
As Hollywood consistently scrambles to create the “feel-good movie of the year,” sometimes there’s nothing more life-affirming than horror. After all, Jigsaw, in his own warped and brutal way, has been teaching victims and audiences to appreciate what they’ve got for six years now. On April 9, Anchor Bay is set to give limited theatrical release to Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s After.Life, and while this film is nothing like Saw—or much else to come out of the genre lately—it should spark discussion and debate in viewers’ minds about how much they’re actually living.
- 4/5/2010
- by [email protected] (Samuel Zimmerman)
- Fangoria
Chicago – In our latest horror/thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “After.Life” starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long!
“After.Life” also features Josh Charles, Chandler Canterbury, Celia Weston, Anna Kuchma, Shuler Hensley, Rosemary Murphy, Malachy McCourt, Laurel Bryce, Bill Perkins, Luz Alexandra Ramos and Laurie Cole from writer and director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. The film opens on April 9, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “After.Life” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “After.Life” with Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long.
Image credit: Anchor Bay Films
Here is the “After.Life” plot description:
After a horrific car accident,...
“After.Life” also features Josh Charles, Chandler Canterbury, Celia Weston, Anna Kuchma, Shuler Hensley, Rosemary Murphy, Malachy McCourt, Laurel Bryce, Bill Perkins, Luz Alexandra Ramos and Laurie Cole from writer and director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. The film opens on April 9, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “After.Life” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “After.Life” with Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long.
Image credit: Anchor Bay Films
Here is the “After.Life” plot description:
After a horrific car accident,...
- 4/1/2010
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Creepy but great new poster for psychological thriller After.Life has been revealed.
The movie directed by Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles and Chandler Canterbury.
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral.
Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her.
Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief—stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late…
If...
The movie directed by Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles and Chandler Canterbury.
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral.
Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her.
Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief—stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late…
If...
- 3/27/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Arriving in limited theaters on April 9 is Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's chiller After.Life, which chronicles a young woman (Christina Ricci) in a transitional state between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director (Liam Neeson) who holds her fate in his hands. Anchor Bay has released the official one sheet that can be viewed below. How can you save yourself if you're already dead? "After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesnt believe shes dead, despite the funeral director's reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. " More...
- 3/22/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
Anchor Bay Entertainment is gearing up for the April 9 limited release of Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's After.Life, the psychological thriller that chronicles a young woman (Christina Ricci) in a transitional state between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director (Liam Neeson) who holds her fate in his hands. While last week you caught a glimpse at the trailer, they've now released the first official clip that really does capture the tone of the film. Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles, Chandler Canterbury also star in the film penned by both Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo and Paul Vosloo.
- 3/10/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Last week, MTV debuted an exclusive poster for "After.Life," a new horror/thriller from director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. Christina Ricci stars as a young woman who dies in a car accident, only to wake up in the funeral parlor with the mortician (Liam Neeson) claiming that he can help her move on to the afterlife. The deceased's boyfriend (Justin Long) thinks something fishy is going on though, and it looks like he's right.
This trailer arrived sometime last week, but it's pretty cool and the movie's got a solid cast, so I felt it deserved another look here.
This trailer arrived sometime last week, but it's pretty cool and the movie's got a solid cast, so I felt it deserved another look here.
- 3/10/2010
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
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
Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's upcoming horror thriller "After.Life" just got a trailer, and you can check it out below. The film is now on track to open in theaters April 9, 2010 via Anchor Bay. Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long and Josh Charles star.
The flick centers on a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death. A funeral director (Neeson) appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but may be intent on burying her alive. Only her boyfriend (Long), who is convinced she's not dead, can help her.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about "After.Life" at this stage. It's definitely not a mainstream release, but there are elements in this trailer I admit I enjoyed. The cast seems solid enough, and the film seems visually pleasing as well. The story? I'm not quite convinced yet.
The flick centers on a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death. A funeral director (Neeson) appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but may be intent on burying her alive. Only her boyfriend (Long), who is convinced she's not dead, can help her.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about "After.Life" at this stage. It's definitely not a mainstream release, but there are elements in this trailer I admit I enjoyed. The cast seems solid enough, and the film seems visually pleasing as well. The story? I'm not quite convinced yet.
- 3/4/2010
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
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.
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.
- 3/4/2010
- by Brian Prisco
Apple just released the first official trailer for the suspense thriller After.Life starring Liam Neeson, Justin Long and Christina Ricci. The film seems pretty unique and different from most thrillers about the afterlife, not giving to much away from the coolness of the trailer, it almost seems as if Neeson is very serial killer like but that Ricci seems to be caught in and out of flux between death and life. Ricci plays the lead role of Anna whereas Justin Long plays her grief stricken boyfriend Paul. Neeson plays the funeral home director Elliot Deacon.
The film is written and directed by Polish filmmaker and Nyu Film School graduate Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. Anchor Bay Films will be bringing After.Life to very limited theaters starting on April 9.
A young woman (Christina Ricci) caught between life and death wakes up to meet a funeral director (Liam Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead,...
The film is written and directed by Polish filmmaker and Nyu Film School graduate Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. Anchor Bay Films will be bringing After.Life to very limited theaters starting on April 9.
A young woman (Christina Ricci) caught between life and death wakes up to meet a funeral director (Liam Neeson) who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
There are a few horror movies that tend to slink us out of nowhere and After.Life (yes After, period, Life) happens to be one of those films. The news on this film has trickled out slowing since announced late last year and finally we have a trailer to set the vibe for what looks to be a really creepy movie...
Synopsis: After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot,...
Synopsis: After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot,...
- 3/3/2010
- by admin
- Horrorbid
Anchor Bay has debuted the first official trailer for Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s psychological thriller After.Life.
Don’t miss this creepy and breathtaking trailer, where Anna (Christina Ricci) doesn’t believe she’s dead despite the funeral director’s (Liam Neeson) reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife and that he is the only one who can save her.
Co-written by Polish filmmaker Agnieszka and her husband Paul Vosloo, the upcoming movie also stars Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles and Chandler Canterbury.
After.Life Official Plot Synopsis: After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral.
Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has...
Don’t miss this creepy and breathtaking trailer, where Anna (Christina Ricci) doesn’t believe she’s dead despite the funeral director’s (Liam Neeson) reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife and that he is the only one who can save her.
Co-written by Polish filmmaker Agnieszka and her husband Paul Vosloo, the upcoming movie also stars Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles and Chandler Canterbury.
After.Life Official Plot Synopsis: After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral.
Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has...
- 3/3/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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Anchor Bay has released a movie trailer for Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's upcoming thriller After.Life, which stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long. The story follows a young woman "caught between life and death... and a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive." Watch the trailer embedded after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her.
- 3/3/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Anchor Bay has debuted the official trailer (via Apple) for their upcoming thriller After.Life starring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long. The concept for this is pretty damn unique and it's easy to get from watching the trailer, so I won't say much so you can enjoy the reveal. There's some creepy necrophilia style sexuality with Ricci too, which hopefully doesn't interest anyone, but it's still in there. If I had to make a quick comparison, this looks like a dark intense look at the life/afterlife balance as also seen in The Lovely Bones. I'm actually kind of interested in checking this out, mainly because of Neeson. What about you? Watch the official trailer for Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's After.Life: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/After-Life-full-trailer.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/After-Life-full-trailer.jpg 598 248] You can also watch the official After.Life trailer in High Definition on Apple A young woman (Christina Ricci) caught between life and death wakes up to meet a...
- 3/3/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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