Kate Lyn Sheil and Jane Adams star in this psychological horror thriller by way of an absurdist comedy.
A psychological horror film that behaves like an absurdist comedy , “She Dies Tomorrow” fittingly begins with a crisis that might be mistaken, at first, for a relapse. Amy , a recovering alcoholic, awakens with a sudden premonition of disaster. She wanders the empty rooms of her recently purchased Los Angeles home, nursing a glass of wine. She listens to Mozart’s Requiem on repeat and shops online for an urn, presumably for herself.
When the aforementioned friend, Jane , stops by for a visit, Amy breaks the bad news that has haunted her from the opening scenes: “I’m going to die tomorrow.” Her stubborn, inexplicable fatalism quickly sends Jane out the door, but without knowing it, Amy has planted a seed.
Shortly before succumbing to the contagion herself, Susan blurts out in a drunken haze: “We’re all the same!” This line may come out of nowhere — actually, it follows a strange aside on the mating habits of dolphins — but it is also a widely accepted theory of human behavior, one that “She Dies Tomorrow” takes seriously enough to both uphold and challenge. Our response to a crisis, real or perceived, is one of the qualities that makes us human.
On one hand, it would seem, Susan’s theory has been dispiritingly confirmed: We are all the same. But on the other, we surely couldn’t be more different. “She Dies Tomorrow” is nothing if not a celebration of individual eccentricity, something it manages through the jagged novelty of its form and the distinctiveness of its principal actors.for the past decade , hints at private aches that her impending demise has brought to the surface. Her journey, which leads her at key moments away from L.A.
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