Resurrecting Excellence.
Movie reviews are fun :]
If nobody reads them I still enjoy writing them. I’ve been waiting to see this movie for a while, mainly because I am a big fan of Dominic Monaghan and his work on LOST. I SELL THE DEAD opens as Willie Grimes is being led to the gallows, yelling obscenities and kicking, Dominic Monaghan’s character Arthur Blake is soon to follow his partners fate, and is confessing his story to a curious priest during his last hours alive. Willie and Arthur are grave robbers being black mailed by an asshole named Dr. Quint who needs a constant supply of corpses for his sick medical experiments. Willie and Arthur eventually find a way to break their ties to the doctor when the stumble upon a body buried at a crossroads, with a steak through it’s heart. They unwittingly remove it thus reawakening the corpse. Than the story picks up and lots of zaniness ensues.
This film is is very quirky, at the end of most scenes we are treated to a brief animated sequence and there is always a veil of black humor over every shot. It’s clear that the makers didn’t exactly have the most accommodating budget. There is some obvious green screened scenes and the film quality itself isn’t the best. These restrictions seemed to have no bearing on the awesomeness of the film though. It didn’t need a bigger budget and the lack of one only adds more character and quirkiness to it. My only complaint is that it feels much to short. It’s a fun film and it’s really hard for me to find anything to complain about. And it might be because any film featuring a cast member from LOST will automatically win for me. It ends with room for a sequel that we both know isn’t happening.
4 out of 5 :]
kisses,
Mandragon.
