The Autopsy of Jane Doe

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

I avoided all the reviews here for a year until I could see this movie. I'm glad I did. I'll go back and look at them now. For me, it's an excellent horror thriller that starts out as a normal forensic thriller with the beginning of the autopsy of the title. At a house where a murder has taken place and police are going through their standard processing of the scene, a naked woman's body is found half-buried in the basement of the house. When the autopsy begins, with a father and son coroner team working on the woman for the local sheriff, strange things begin to be found and the young woman's body reveals clue after clue as they delve deeper and deeper. And weird things begin to happen in and around the autopsy room, which is located in the family's house.

The father and son begin to realize that they are in danger and maybe even the son's girlfriend, who is due to visit the son. It's soon A great movie all the way through, very tense with scary stuff aplenty. The always-awesome Brian Cox plays the father, Tommy and an excellent Emile Hirsch is his son, Austin. Ophelia Lovibond is good as Austin's girlfriend, Emma, who is in mostly the beginning and end of the film, and Olwen Catherine Kelly is a super presence as Jane Doe, whose entire performance is lying naked on a table, getting carved up, not moving, with her cloudy eyes staring at the camera for most of the movie but she nevertheless gives a great performance. This film is a fun ride from start to finish and is a fine addition to the