Review of The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) by Prabhu — 18 Jan 2018

The Autopsy of Jane Doe.

A great movie is always unique. A standard movie has a good plot, screenplay, characters and direction as well as cinematography.

I believe this movie had the potential to be in the list of standard movies but why did it dissatisfy me? A movie dissatisfies you when you're able to predict the outcome, especially for a horror movie.

I liked how the evil possessed the father, and made it sacrifice for her own preservation. I liked how the film devolved and was getting interesting grabbing all our attention. But where was it leading to? It's constrained itself to the idea of autopsy. It could not get out of it and performed more!

What has it achieved that we haven't seen in low grade films? The way our characters die, same old delusional tactic. The way most of such horror violent movies end, killing them all. And we usually don't have much of clue what happens!

The evil prevails, innocent characters die. Don't tell me to interpret or think about the story of jane doe. That's not my job, but the director's, producer's or screenwriter's. Has they talked about any sequels? Take "it follows" for example, what the director left for interpretation, is irrelevant and unnecessary to the main plot. It is a great movie because it achieved its purpose and became more than a movie. It is an art and an inspiration for cinematographers and directors. But what has The Autopsy of Jane Doe achieved? Did it scare us? Was the plot completely unique and original? The lights flickering, doors closing, abnormal noise in radios, the dead body walking, are they new to us anymore? The characters, from a little effort because they always get a clue accidentally and sometimes with no effort as if the director was pushing so hard to reveal us, apprehended that this girl is a witch from the seventieth century and was tortured like all those innocent girls of those times and she'd continously revenge whoever tortures her living dead body. I think this's an idea of a scene without a story, it is an experiment that failed leaving us a feeling of disappointment.