Another movie from the long lasting bucket list, this things never end with the amount of content you discover every day and that is been released, this time it is "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" and if you are familiar with Salem story or have seen any movie related to it at some point you try to make connections to the story, it also reminds me of The Witch (2015) almost like a modern sequel. This 2016 horror movie directed by Andre Ovredal, the same guy who brought us "The Last Voyage of the Demeter", manages to do something pretty rare in horror these days, he creates genuine tension and dread without relying too heavily on cheap jump scares or excessive gore, in fact one of the characters never moves or blink. The movie takes place mostly in one location, a morgue which might sound limiting because of the amount of space they had, but actually works in its favor creating this claustrophobic feeling that is not easy to pull off due to its limitations as the story unfolds with also very few characters.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3289956/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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As they keep examination her the weird things start happening around the morgue, the radio keeps changing stations on its own, playing "Let the Sunshine In" at creepy moments, their cat becomes extremely active and a storm traps them inside the morgue. Each new discovery about Jane Doe's body makes the movie more intense, suggesting a connection between their autopsy and the supernatural events going on around them. Tommy and Austin eventually find a cloth with strange symbols inside her stomach along with her missing tooth this points in the direction of a ritual straight up, its here when they realize they're dealing with something far beyond a regular autopsy, the body of a woman tortured during the Salem witch trials in 1693, who now seems to be exacting her revenge on anyone who disturbs her body was buried, pointing out that all the chaos that happen at that place was her doing some how.
The ending of movie brings the themes full circle in a way that is both satisfying and disturbing at the same time after realizing that Jane Doe was an innocent woman tortured during the Salem witch trials, Tommy and Austin understand that she wasn't actually a witch when she was accused but the torture she endured transformed her into one, I can't really understand how that can happen while she is been torture unless there was some evil or demon lurking around just waiting for her to give up and let him in, the greatest irony as while trying to prove she was a witch her captors eventually turn her into one. Tommy explains to Austin that the cloth they found inside her with biblical passages was meant to condemn witches but since she wasn't one it had the opposite effect, another irony on the movie character's procedure. Her body became a vessel for vengeance against those who violate her which is exactly what Tommy and Austin have been doing with their autopsy, evil knows nothing about science, its either black or white, stay away. At this point in time with everything going on around them, Tommy has come to the conclusion that a sacrifice needs to be made so Jane can be satisfy, its here where he ask her to take him and leave his son alone, with every clue they put together, Tommy eventually comes to the conclusion that as she keeps killing becomes stronger like she is healing and probably coming back to life. It's a powerful moment that shows Tommy's love for his son and felt that there was no other choice so Austin could survive. Austin escapes and the police arrive the next morning but Tommy sacrifice was in vain, we see that Jane Doe's body is being taken to another morgue, where the cycle will presumably begin again and I could only imagine Jane finally resurrecting into a full blown powerful witch.
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