Horror TV tip with a corpse as the main character – This film creates unbearable horror without any clumsy shocks

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She lies on the table like a mannequin, untouched on the outside and yet without a single sign of life. The unknown dead man, hence only referred to as Jane Doe, puzzles the two forensic pathologists Tommy Tilden (Brian Cox) and his son Austin (Emile Hirsch). Time is of the essence, because they have to be there by the next morning the cause of the young woman’s death have found.

What in the chilling The Autopsy of Jane Doe by André Øvredal, the today at 10:00 p.m. on Tele 5 runs, then happens, you should not miss it.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe relies on old-fashioned horror and lots of atmosphere

The father-son duo immediately begins the autopsy of the dead. However, the further they penetrate into the dead body of the corpse, the stranger they become curious insights about the passing of this Jane Doe.

Very early on, Øvredal’s work turned out to be a very atmospheric horror film, in which fortunately clumsy shock effects were dispensed with for a long time. The director prefers to rely on tried and true tricks of horror cinemato regularly send a good shiver down the spine of the viewer.

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Due to the realistic setting of the morgue in which the whole action takes place, The Autopsy of Jane Doe doesn’t even seem like a typical horror film at first. Instead it blows in all the time cold breath of the morbid through the premises, while father and son go about their jobs with sympathetic composure.

Nevertheless, the fascinating center of André Øvredal’s film is the unknown dead Jane Doe. She is the repulsive enigmain which every exposed fiber within the body reveals a different terrifying piece of the puzzle.

When the events increasingly slip into the inexplicable, the director uses the game with light and shadow, contrary songs from the radio and eerie noises, unclear silhouettes or just the ringing of a small bell pure fear to create.

The Autopsy of Jane braces itself against modern horror – and yet gives in to it

The director finally transforms the already scary scene into a place of terror where morbid reality and irrational imagination collide. André Øvredal skilfully eludes modern horror mechanisms from films such as The Conjuring, The Nun and Co. and avoids generic jumpscares or clumsy, fleeting moments of shock.

In addition to the successful atmosphere, The Autopsy of Jane Doe also convinces with the attentive drawing of the characters. While Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch act as a charismatic father-son duo, some scenes lead later in the story emotionally stirring character developmentswhich also do not leave the viewer untouched.

And yet André Øvredal apparently didn’t want to completely oppose modern horror mechanisms. After the great first hour, they work final around 20 minutes sobering when the director suddenly sacrifices much of the subtly oppressive atmosphere through a major revelation.

This finale cannot destroy the otherwise so good impression of The Autopsy of Jane Doe, which at the end confuses horror with violence and ends in a very hasty and unsatisfying way. A fly in the ointment is the final sprint of André Øvredal’s film anyway.

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