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I Sell the Dead
Glenn McQuaid 2008
Categories: Narrative Competition Features
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Run time: 85 min. | USA | Language: English
18th century justice has finally caught up with grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of the guillotine looming over him, young Blake confesses to a priest, Father Duffy, about his fifteen years of adventure in the resurrection trade; from his humble beginnings as a young boy stealing trinkets from corpses, to his partnership with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes hunting creatures unwilling to accept their place in the ground. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure, horror, and vicious professional competition that ends where it begins -- the grave.

Low budget meets high imagination and takes a justified thrashing. I Sell The Dead is a Grade-A masterpiece of morbid fun.

- Gareth Upton, Film Programmer
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9:00 PM     Fri, Jan 16
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1:00 PM     Wed, Jan 21
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Cast & Crew
director
Glenn McQuaid
writer
Glenn McQuaid
 
Cast
Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm, Larry Fessenden, John Speredakos, Brenda Cooney, Eileen Colgan, & Daniel Manche
producer
Peter Phok & Larry Fessenden
composer
Jeff Grace
editor
Glenn McQuaid
director of photography
Richard Lopez
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Rated 4.0/5 Stars
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Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings) star in this nicely orchestrated little indie comedic thriller. The concept is deceptively simple, perhaps one of the reasons why it is so fun and easily enjoyed: two grave robbers are imprisoned for murders they claim they didn't commit. The film begins in Arthur Blake's (Monaghan in a spectacular non-Hobbit role) cell and spins backward in a series of revelatory flashbacks as he converses with a priest (Ron Perlman in a decidedly non-red demon role). The gents held for their parts in a supposed murder are just your average 18th century blokes who rob the dead, until the dead start wanting more than rest. Vampires and zombies begin to attack them from their coffins and the robber's business picks up in the black market for the living dead's supposed secrets to eternal life. But their good business plan begins to run afoul of the wrong crowd when they start poaching on another gang's undead turf. Perlman does a great job as a holy man, with a twist, and doesn't slaughter the accent too much. Monaghan is fully legit, of course, and his spot-on brogue is exactly what saves the others from bad-accent land (in between Jersey and Philly, if you were wondering). I'd say this is one of the better creature features that I've seen, mainly due to the starpower and chops the leads bring, and I wouldn't be surprised if it did very well in the cult movie scene. There's still time to catch it at Slamdance though, and I would if I were you.