Anchor Bay has just premiered the trailer for After.Life. Badly punctuated title and silly poster design aside, the film’s been in the works for quite a while, with Kate Bosworth and Alfred Molina originally supposed to star. They even released this teaser poster of that version. But now they’ve got an equally solid cast, and after seeing her first short go to Sundance, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (say that five times fast) is ready to unleash her first feature film on the world.
The plot is somewhat reminiscent of an old Tales From the Crypt episode (Abra Cadaver)
where a person hears, sees and feels after death, and ends up experiencing it himself. In After.Life Christina Ricci wakes up after a car accident to find herself in a funeral home, and Liam Neeson preparing her body for her big day. She doesn’t feel dead, though, and understandably starts to freak out. Neeson tries to reassure her that only he has the ability to communicate with the dead and can help her out, but what’s the truth? She tries getting in touch with her boyfriend (Justin Long) for help.
The trailer is now up on Apple. Check it out here.
After.Life hits theaters April 9th.
15 comments
Wow. Justin Long looks remarkably like Liam Neeson and vice versa. It drives me nuts when they align one name with a face on a poster but not the rest.
Pretty fucking weird if Neeson made this after his wife died.
This is one of the worst posters I've ever seen. I hate this specific type of floating heads design. And I especially hate when they align the wrong name with the face. I understand that Liam Neeson gets center stage because he's a bigger name and screen presence than Justin Long. But he should be second-billed too. Fuck Justin Long.
@Adam A. You're not alone. It just looks odd, especially when the names hover over each floating head. My wife thinks I'm weird.
LOL. Right there with you Adam A and MikeyPants. Does it take too much effort to just realign the friggin' names on the poster? Pure laziness!
@#5: So you think the reason the names don't line up is because of pure laziness? Think harder…
@#6: Do you think it's a billing issue? Then wouldn't it go Neeson, Long, Ricci then? Particularly if you're thinking associations with recent BO Gross. As pretty as Ricci is, shit hasn't been in a hit movie for a long long time. I personally don't think it's laziness either – more likely the usual case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing in Hollywood.
Agreed on the poster gripe. What's with that "wrong name over the actor's pic" deal anyhow? I can see maybe -MAYBE- someone fucking up a one-sheet like that and it somehow getting past quality control, but we see this far too often these days. Not sure what the deal is, but it's fucking retarded.
To #5 and #8 – The practice is called parallel billing. #7 – Parallel billing has little to do with box office and more to do with agents/management.
I was lucky enough to see the premier of this movie at the AFI fest. I still don't know how I feel about it, quality wise. But why I say I was "lucky" to see it is because Christina Ricci is stark ass naked for literally half the movie. If you saw BLACK SNAKE MOAN for pornographic reasons alone, this is the movie for you.
stark ass naked Christina Ricci you say, Left Hand Lucas? SIGN ME UP! Oddly, I've owned a copy of Black Snake Moan for 2-3 years and have never really sat down to watch it, so it needs to go on my to do list. As for the trailer, I know she had to hold that knife up that high near the end to keep it properly in frame, but damn she looked like she was just waiting to cut her own neck! Anybody know the name of the filming technique where both actors could have been framed better for that shot (if there is such a thing)?
@#10: Ahh, now THAT explains the billing…
oh great, on the one hand: Christina Ricci butt naked… **drool** down, boy,down. ON the other hand she's dead, lying on a slab and all of a sudden I'm a necrophiliac. Damn you, Hollywood.
and while I'm at it.. fuck you CAPTA test, 5th time I've entered the right code to no avail.
You know what would make this poster worse? If it employed that contagious orange/blue theme that Hollywood has been jerking off on for the past eight years.
And fuck these captcha things.
i learn how to do capcha work.
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