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Horror has made a big comeback over the last decade, whether it's more elevated fare like Talk to Me and Hereditary, the return of icons like Halloween and Scream, or the birth of a new legend in Art the Clown and the Terrifier films. One of the best horror movies of the last ten years made just $6 million worldwide when it was released in 2016, but through word of mouth, as it built an audience on streaming, it became an original nightmare worthy of being lumped in with the other greats.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is just that, with Tommy and Austin beginning to examine this unknown woman's body, but nothing they uncover during the autopsy makes sense. Her foggy eyes are wide open, yet blood still moves inside her and rigor mortis has not taken effect, with these conflicting and seemingly impossible details making it impossible to tell when she died.
The similarities between Alien and The Autopsy of Jane Doe lie in their tone and atmosphere. In Alien, our crew is safe inside the Nostromo, but then a sinister outside force is brought in when a face hugger attacks Kane . Bringing his unconscious body on board the spaceship results in an unknown horror being crossing that threshold of safety. We learn in a shocking second act scene, during the famous chest-burster scene, the horror that Ellen Ripley and crew will have to face down.
✕ Remove Ads David Cronenberg-Like Body Horror Takes Over the Third Act David Cronenberg is a master of horror, just like Stephen King. For half a century he's been making films, and while most of them are scary, they are also usually not so easily definable. Cronenberg is an auteur of the weird and unusual, a mastermind at twisting narratives horrifically to create wholly original stories. Early Cronenberg movies set the path for the rest of his career and a host of imitators.
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