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The recently released AFTER.LIFE is intended as a thought-provoking horror film, but the only lasting thought it provoked in me is the question: Why is Christina Ricci not a horror star? She surpasses the chill-factor of her supposedly creepy co-stars, projecting not only a melancholy gloom but also an eerie allure perfectly suited to the genre.

After sitting out last week’s CLASH OF THE TITAN’s episode, Dan Person’s is back in the host’s chair this week for a round-table discussion of AFTER.LIFE, the new horror-thriller starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, and Justin Long, about a young woman who wakes up after a car accident to find that she is in a [...]

Built around an intriguing premise, this ambitious little horror movie deserves credit for its art house aspirations, focusing on characterization, ideas, and intrigue instead of violence and shock; unfortunately, this is a case when “vaulting ambition” o’erleaps itself and falls victim to its own seriousitude, the heavy-handed approach collapsing under its own weight and generating [...]

In an interview at Dread Central, director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo talks about AFTER.LIFE, the indepdent horror film receiving a limited platform release this Friday.

Read more about After.Life (2010) by clicking the links below:

After.Life theatrical release
Cybersurfing: DreadCentral interviews After.Life director
After.Life (2009)
After.Life: Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast
Sense of Wonder: Why is Christina Ricci not a horror star?

[ April 9, 2010; ] Anchor Bay Films is giving platform release to this little movie, hoping that a little theatrical exposure will bump their home video sales. Christina Ricci stars as Anna, who wakes up after a car accident to find herself being prepped for burial by funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson). Understandably reluctant to believe that she is dead, Anna [...]