I Sell The Dead
Posted on September 12, 2009 in Movies
Two weekends ago London’s Empire Cinema at Leicester Square was the host of Freakfest 2009. Freakfest is a pretty large scale film festival centred on horror movies. The festival ran from Thursday till Sunday with people having the option of buying whole festival passes, day passes or single viewing tickets. I chose to buy a single ticket to go see I Sell The Dead starting Dominic Monaghan (Lost) and a few other less known actors. I Sell The Dead is a intriguing and captivating story of two grave robbers who have been imprisoned and are sentenced to go before the guillotine. The film is told in flashbacks as one of the grave robbers makes his confessions to a priest and tells him of his life as the best grave robber alive (according to himself).
I Sell The Dead is clearly created as a low budget horror film in terms of visuals and storyline but in a friendly and familiar fashion to fans of horror films. Although this is a horror film it does not in any way take itself too seriously. It’s not an all out comedy with a horror plot like Shaun Of The Dead but most people who see the film will have ample opportunity to laugh. The movie does start off a bit generic and lacking in any manner of horror elements (excluding the fact that it’s about grave robbers). It does however take a sharp turn to the inclusion of horror elements as around the mid point of the film supernatural beings start showing up.
I Sell The Dead is a horror flick with ample comedic scenarios to make it appealing to most watchers as long as they are old enough. I full heartedly recommend this film.
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