It won’t arrive in time for Halloween, but since you might as well start the weekend of October 30th on a spooky note, consider the trailer for Takashi Miike‘s latest (relatively speaking) picture, Over Your Dead Body. While it initially sounds like diversion from his recent action and comedy pictures of recent years, and would instead mark a return to the horror pictures that earned him a place in westerner’s eyes, early word positions this as being a bit… stranger.
Our review, which was posted out of last year’s AFI Fest, praised certain aspects by saying, “Miike’s best handling of the material comes from his use of the set for the play, which uses a warehouse environment and desks for the audience. The stage is big enough that his shooting style permits an eschewing of the ‘audience’ and a focus only on the play at hand, blurring the lines between us noticing this fiction and us believing it.” Although we didn’t take so strongly to it overall — this was a cinematographic matter, for whatever that’s worth — we think Over Your Dead Body is worth investing in. How nice that we can see it soon.
Have a look below (via The Playlist):
Synopsis:
A beautiful actress (Kô Shibasaki of 47 Ronin and Battle Royale) plays the protagonist in a new play based on a legendary ghost story. She pulls some strings to get her lover cast in the play, although he’s a relatively unknown actor. With the cast in place, rehearsals for the play, about an abusive relationship and a grudge, begin. But off stage, some begin to develop their own obsessions. Trapped between the play and reality, they are horrified to find that a real grudge can cross the blurred line between reality and fantasy. Will love flourish? Or has it already turned hideously dark?
Over Your Dead Body will hit home-video formats on January 5.