After.Life

Afterlife is a deeply intriguing movie that takes us on one of the most dreaded lines- the line between life and death. The movie has a disturbing ‘this-could-happen-to-me’ air about it, which arises as it gives an uncanny twist to the concept of death and life after death.

The movie centers on the character of Anna (Christina Ricci), who after a silly fight with her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long), dies in a car accident. As Paul and the rest of her family mourn her death and prepare for her funeral, she finds herself lying in a funeral home, with barely any clothes on, and a creepy undertaker, Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) watching over her body. As she springs to consciousness, she is terrified to discover that he is preparing her body for the funeral. When she protests, claiming to be alive, he tells her that she isn’t alive, but is merely in the stage between life and death, and can talk to him because he has the ability to communicate with the dead. That is when an old classmate of Anna sees her standing near the window of Eliot’s funeral parlor. He informs Paul that she is still alive. Paul goes into a state of shock and frantically begins to figure out a way to save Anna, realizing that he suspected Eliot’s behavior all along.

Meanwhile, Anna snoops around Eliot’s house, discovering pictures of his previous victims, which lets her know that there is something that is not normal about this man and his life. Liam Neeson steals the show with his par-excellence performance as the creepy undertaker, while Christina’s beauty simply enchants the viewers.