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I Sell the Dead

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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Horror
Written by: Glenn McQuaid
Directed by: Glenn McQuaid
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 7, 2009
Running Time: 85 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm, Eileen Colgan, Daniel Manche, John Speredakos, and Brenda Cooney
In I Sell the Dead, 19th century justice has finally caught up with two of the craftiest grave robbers in town. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, body-snatcher Arthur Blake tells his life story to the peculiar Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling usiness with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes. As the whisky flows Arthur's tales get stranger and stranger. From their graveyard discoveries of vampires and zombies to tales of vicious gang rivalries with the infamous House of Murphy, Arthur's confessions are the stuff of legend! Whether pillaging in fog drenched grave yards or plotting on blood soaked coast lines, Grimes and Blake leave no graves unturned. Their colorful and peculiar history is one filled with adventure, horror, and mayhem that threaten to drag all involved down into the very graves they're trying to pilfer. (IFC Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Film Threat Matthew Sorrento
The joy behind this film is right there in the old-time, exploitation-tinged title.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The movie goes out on a high, but until then, it plays almost like the pilot for a TV series. But it would be a GOOD TV series.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
The jokes do wear thin, and the setup does too, but it’s nonetheless worth noting what a couple of crafty thieves can do with elbow grease, some spare change and the kind of deep movie love that never dies.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Chris Barsanti
The result is smart, gruesome and inventive enough to more than please niche genre fans who are likely to spread the word to fellow admirers of gallows humor.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Antic horror comedy I Sell the Dead nods to the '60s Hammer heyday of fog-swirling Victorian chillers, as well as that period's penchant for teaming genre favorites (Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre, etc.) in genial sendups.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Genre fans will definitely get off on I Sell the Dead, but outsiders might be less enthusiastic.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nicolas Rapold
The storytelling frame allows a genial, ain't-it-cool pile-up of occasionally antic episodes.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Low-budget, grubby and gleeful, but with a nice sense of style and apparently an endless supply of dry ice. Points deducted, though, for a too-easy alien-corpse joke.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Michael Ordoña
The movie's not without charm -- the creature effects are fun and the mix of vampires, zombies (et al) is amusing. That's not enough to save it from the Curse of the Predictable Plot Twist and the Blight of the Creeping Shadows.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
A sweet, splattery bit of in-jokery; if it’s not actually a good movie, on some level you have to admire the chutzpah of a film set in 1850s Ireland but shot on Staten Island.
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