Passable supernatural horror film with a very solid set-up and great make-up work that unfortunately fades in punch as the movie moves forward becoming increasingly cliché and predictable.

In a crime scene inside a house, a mysterious woman appears buried in the basement. No identity nor record of her existence is found. Her body is sent to be examined by Tommy (Brian Cox) and Austin Tilden (Emile Hirsch), a father and son coroners, with the objective of understanding the cause of death and hopefully get a better understanding of who this woman might be. As they proceed with their work things will start to go sideways.

The setting and location of the film might by the highlight of it all by far. It is not usual that the autopsy room becomes the main location of a picture, not even in horror, so the fact that here it takes central stage it gives it a fresh and different approach right from the start.

This element combined with great make-up work which is perfect to display all the autopsy sequences and procedures set the perfect scene to build up towards a great solid horror movie.

Sadly enough, the movie peaks right there and goes downhill quite dramatically afterwards. Falling into the various horror movie clichés, you could basically grab pen and paper, note those down and start keeping track until yelling bingo. Mirror plays, shadows, storm, light/energy problems, slow zombies, roman numerals, creepy songs, failing radio, no phone connection, unsuccessful jump scares…

This goes hand in hand with the fact that the supernatural story becomes quite evident right away, which makes you wonder if the main characters might be somehow quite a couple of idiots for them to take so long to reach the same conclusion as well as making as a result the twists and reveals totally unimpactful. At the same time, various times during the film it feels like the dialogue includes several conversations as pure fillers since many feels like they might have some weight to the development of the story but actually end up being absolutely forgotten, just as it happens with the character of Emma, Austin’s girlfriend played by Ophelia Lovibond, which is quite a disposable element of the film.

In conclusion, a definitely weak but still watchable horror that although the good work from its main actors and strong beginning falls into self-acknowledgement and self-indulgence of the genre converting it into more of a sort of creepy parody than anything else.