A pair of coroners played by Succession star Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch try to solve the haunting mystery behind the latest Jane Doe to end up on their table in the 2016 supernatural horror movie The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
Released by IFC Midnight in the United States almost ten years ago, The Autopsy of Jane Doe has become an oft-recommended film thanks to its disturbing subject matter and shocking plot twists. It is currently streaming on Netflix, but it won't be for much longer.
Netflix is home to a significant amount of great horror movies, many of them even original films produced in-house. The majority, however, are films that the streaming service licenses for a certain amount of time and then removes when that license expires. The Autopsy of Jane Doe is leaving the app in March. The last day to watch the movie on Netflix will be March 14.
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What is The Autopsy of Jane Doe about?
Cox and Hirsch play father and son Tommy and Austin Tilden, a pair of coroners who regularly perform autopsies at their job. The latest body belongs to an unknown woman dubbed Jane Doe. Police find the body while investigating a murder case. She's discovered in a basement nearby and shipped to the Tildens to discern the cause of death.
What starts as a conventional autopsy soon evolves into something more complex and concerning. Tommy and Austin find unexplainable markings and a number of other oddities on Jane's corpse that are unlike anything they've seen before.
Along with Jane's inconsistent injuries, father and son begin to witness strange events happening within the morgue, like spotting apparitions and the radio changing at random. As the night progresses, it becomes apparent that learning the truth about Jane's death could endanger the lives of both coroners.
Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal directed the film. He's best known for directing other horror titles like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Umma, and The Last Voyage of Demeter. Ian Goldberg
and Richard Naing co-wrote the script.
It's not easy to make this kind of one-location horror movie, especially with such a small cast, but Øvredal somehow manages to make a morgue even more terrifying and claustrophobic than you thought possible.
The movie was so scary that even Stephen King sang its praises, comparing it favorably to the early works of David Cronenberg.
Those interested in watching the film before it departs Netflix can do so here.