Christmas time isn’t usually a hotbed for horror features, which makes it the ideal time for a distributor to corner the market. IFC Midnight looks to be doing just that with André Øvredal‘s Trollhunter follow-up The Autopsy of Jane Doe, which finds us in a morgue with Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, and Ophelia Lovibond as secrets involving a newly arrived corpse begin to pile up.
Following the red band trailer, we now have a new trailer for the film arriving in just a few weeks which sets up quite the mystery. We said in our review, “It’s nothing like the breath of fresh air that the breakout Trollhunter delivered, but Øvredal gives us B-movie thrills better than most of his peers, creating a campy, nasty, tremendously fun horror experience in which death proves not the ending we might expect.”
Check out the new trailer below.
Austin Tilden is ready to get out of Grantham, Virginia. With his mom dead and his girlfriend pulling at him, the only thing keeping him is his relationship with his father Tommy, the local coroner. The Tilden morgue has been a staple in Grantham for years and Austin still has plenty to learn from his dad, who may be older but is still as sharp as they come. When the local sheriff brings in a corpse late one night, Austin blows off plans with his girlfriend to stay and help his father with the autopsy.
The body belongs to a young woman found half-buried at a crime scene. With no ID and her fingerprints not found in the police system, she’s classified as a Jane Doe. What’s more troubling is that there’s no apparent reason for her to have been at the crime scene. And the body is pristine, with no apparent cause of death. As the Tildens start the autopsy, they discover that her eyes have clouded, which would indicate a body that’s been dead for days, but the muscles show no rigidity or signs of rigor mortis. And that’s just the first anomaly they find. As the strange inconsistencies pile up and a thunderstorm rolls in, the Tildens will find that the body on their table holds plenty of dark and terrifying secrets.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe opens in theaters and on VOD on December 21st.