15. After.Life dir. by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (2010)

Christina Ricci gets angry at Justin Long during a romantic dinner because he tells her that he’s moving away to pursue a new lawyering job. Ricci decides she knows what’s going on before Long can finish his proposal - he’s leaving her and she’s going to be miserable. So she storms out, drives off in a storm and is killed in a car accident with a truck. Turns out Justin Long just wanted to say he loved her, would she marry him, and would she come with to wherever it was he was going. Woo, what an idiot.

Anyway, Ricci wakes up on the cutting table of local funeral directory Liam Neeson. She freaks out again, exclaiming to Neeson that she’s not dead, “How can I talk if I’m dead!?” Neeson apparently has a gift for speaking with the deceased and calmly explains to Ricci her situation. She’s a corpse and she needs to prepare for her after life.

Ricci still has a hard time believing she’s dead, and Justin Long becomes convinced that Neeson is hiding something from him. Mystery! Intrigue! Stale acting!

This movie was just ok. There were some disconcerting plot holes thrown around in the film, things that were never really resolved - although I’m confident in my interpretation of the ending. It’s a little horror movie with a budget and some halfway decent cinematography. Personally, I’d take Long in Drag Me to Hell over this any day.

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