The Autopsy of Jane Doe

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Movie
German title The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Original title The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director André Øvredal
script Ian B. Goldberg,
Richard Naing
production Rory Aitken,
Fred Berger,
Eric Garcia,
Ben Pugh
music Danny Bensi,
Saunder Jurriaans
camera Roman Osin
cut Patrick Larsgaard
occupation
synchronization

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is an American horror film released in 2016 by the Norwegian director André Øvredal .

The film premiered on September 9, 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on December 21, 2016. The German-language premiere took place on September 7, 2017 at the Fantasy Filmfest . The Autopsy of Jane Doe was released in Germany on October 20, 2017 on Blu-ray Disc and DVD .

action

In a house in Grantham, Virginia , the police found three bodies that were apparently brutally murdered. A fourth unknown body is found half-buried in the basement of the house. Sheriff Burke orders an autopsy of the unknown young woman for the same night and brings the body to the local coroners , where Tommy Tilden and his son Austin do their work in the basement of their house. Although Austin had an appointment with his girlfriend Emma that evening, he helps his father to autopsy the unknown body.

The first examinations on the corpse reveal a puzzling picture. In addition to the absence of death spots and rigor mortis , the ankles and wrists of the murdered were broken without any signs of hematoma and the tongue was cut off. After opening the rib cage , Tommy and Austin see that the organs resemble those of burn victims and that these have stab wounds, although the body is externally intact. During the investigation, the first strange phenomena occur. The blood and organ samples run out in the refrigerator, and Tilden's cat comes through the ventilation opening seriously injured and bleeding and dies, whereupon Tommy burns her in the crematorium .

Finally, the two continue the autopsy and find a flower of the common thorn apple and a shroud with Roman numerals, characters and symbols in the stomach . When Tommy finally removes the skin from the chest, he discovers the same signs and symbols on the inside of the skin. Tommy and Austin finally come to the conclusion that the dead woman must have come from the north and was sacrificed as a human sacrifice in a ritual murder .

When the lights suddenly go out and the other bodies have disappeared from the cold rooms, Tommy and Austin decide to leave the morgue using the elevator. However, since the elevator does not work and they are followed by the living dead, they hide in one of the offices and try in vain to contact the sheriff on the phone. After the persecutors let go of them, they decide to burn the unknown corpse, who seems to be responsible for the events, in the crematorium. Back in the morgue, a supernatural force locks the door to the crematorium, whereupon Austin tries in vain to burn the corpse with acetone , which sets the entire room on fire, so they are forced to put the fire out again. Meanwhile the elevator is working again and they are trying to go up. The elevator door does not close, however, and when a living corpse approaches, Tommy takes an emergency ax and knocks him down. As it turns out, the dejected dead man is Austin's friend Emma, ​​who came back to check on him.

Austin and Tommy decide to go back to the morgue to find out what the unidentified dead person is and to find a way to kill her. After opening the top of the skull , they see that the brain cells have not yet died and that an unknown energy is probably keeping the dead person alive. On the shroud found in the stomach Austin discovers the Bible passage Leviticus 20:27 ( Lev 20.27  EU ) and the Roman number 1693. They finally come to the theory that the dead woman must be a witch , which is similar to the Salem witch trials must have died from 1692 . Tommy tells of the severe torture and mistreatment inflicted on the victims of the witch hunt. He concludes that these rituals, applied to a completely innocent person, created the very thing that was supposed to be destroyed: a witch. Since he already shows the first injuries like the corpse, he realizes that the tortured witch wants revenge, and that he and his son were actually only accidentally in the way.

As a result, Tommy offers up as a sacrifice for the witch and asks her to spare his son. Tommy then suffers the same injuries as the witch. Any injury inflicted on him heals the corpse. Just as Tommy's eyes cloud and those of the witch clear, Austin can no longer bear his father's torment and releases him with a stab in the heart. Then the lights go back on and Austin hears the sheriff calling for him. The door to the top is blocked. When the voice sings the song on the radio, Austin realizes that the calls are hallucinations. When he turns around, his father suddenly stands in front of him and Austin falls to his death in shock over the banister.

The next morning the police arrive and find the bodies of Tommy, Austin and Emma. The unknown corpse is still lying on the table with no sign of an autopsy and the other corpses are still there. The sheriff orders the stranger to be transferred to another county to perform the autopsy there.

Background and production

The Norwegian director André Øvredal made his English-language directorial debut with The Autopsy of Jane Doe . In 2010, Øvredal made the Norwegian horror film Trollhunter , which celebrated international success and won awards.

After Øvredal had seen the horror film Conjuring in 2013 , he expressed interest to his agency in filming a “pure horror script ”. While searching, he finally came across The Autopsy of Jane Doe , which was on the 2013 Black List for unfilmed Hollywood scripts.

Initially, Martin Sheen was scheduled for the role of Tommy, but canceled due to scheduling problems. In March 2015, the role was cast with Brian Cox . Irish model and actress Olwen Catherine Kelly took on the role of the unknown dead . According to Øvredal, Kelly had the most difficult role in the film, as she had to lie naked and quiet on a table for eight to ten hours at the end of a day of shooting. Kelly was the first actress to audition for the role and was chosen for her yoga training and shallow breathing.

Production began on March 30, 2015 in London , England . The shooting took place in Selling, a town in the east of England in Swale County, Kent .

reception

The film received mostly mixed to positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 86 percent of the 102 reviews collected are positive, while Metacritic received a Metascore of 65 percent from 20 reviews.

For film releases, The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a “largely straightforward film” that “ captivates with its minimalist concept of a chamber play [...]”.

For Moviebreak.de, The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a "pleasant, classic horror film in which director André Øvredal creates fear and horror with skillful directing means". However, the "hasty, unsatisfactory ending cannot keep up with the great first hour, otherwise one of the great highlights of the genre [...] would have arisen here".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Autopsy of Jane Doe . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Fantasy Filmfest 2017: The Autopsy of Jane Doe . In: Wortvogel . September 8, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ Publication “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” . In: Bluray-Disc.de . Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ Interview: André Øvredal Dissects The Autopsy of Jane Doe . In: Dread Central . December 13, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ Martin Sheen Conducts The Autopsy Of Jane Doe . In: Empire Online . February 6, 2014. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" Screens in Chicago . In: The Movie Blog . December 21, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ Emile Hirsch And Brian Cox Set For The Autopsy Of Jane Doe . In: Empire Online . March 8, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  8. ^ Autopsy of Jane Doe: How an actress played dead for horror film . In: Entertainment Weekly . September 27, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  9. ↑ IM Global boards The Autopsy Of Jane Doe . In: Screen Daily . March 6, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  10. ^ The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2017) . In: Kent Film Office . March 29, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  11. ↑ The Autopsy of Jane Doe . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ The Autopsy of Jane Doe . In: Metacritic . Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  13. ^ Review of “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” . In: film starts . Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  14. ^ Review of “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” . In: Moviebreak.de . Retrieved November 5, 2017.