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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) recounts his life as a grave robber to Father Duffy (Ron Perlman) as he awaits for his execution. His partner Willie Grimes has already been guillotined. He was a young boy when he started with Willie robbing graves for the demanding Dr. Quint. Quint demands more corpses and fresher ones all the time. Then the corpses start coming alive.I really don't like Monaghan and Perlman's scenes. They cut up and interrupt the story. It's also the men sitting and recounting the story which doesn't always add much to the movie. It's like a spoiler and one is always wondering if Blake is lying. It's not terribly funny even as a dark comedy. This is no Shaun of the Dead. The movie struggles to get any momentum. Whenever the movie pulls me in, it always gets interrupted by Monaghan and Perlman.

A priest is having the main character review his life of body snatching by telling various, otherwise unconnected, stories about his life of crime. This reminded me a LOT of some of the Hammer films where a group of unconnected stories are told by different people who just happen to be thrown together. Although the production quality of this film was light years ahead of the old Hammer movies, the "unconnected" feeling of the stories was the same.I actually watched this because I've been a Ron Perlman fan since "Quest for Fire", but Ron basically had just a walk on part (he's the priest). This was Dominic and Larry's film, and it looks like they had a lot of fun making it. Not exactly a riveting movie, but good for a lazy Saturday viewing if you have popcorn handy.

I think this was one of the strangest and coolest films I've seen in a while. The scenery is Dickensian and very atmospheric. Gives you a great sense of the dark side of Victorian era England. I didn't really know where it was going to go, so was actually somewhat surprised by it's foray into the supernatural. But this was generally a very enjoyable and humorous movie. I loved the interaction of the two main characters throughout the film, but felt like the plot got somewhat lost and ponderous during the second half. I thought the character of Murphy was introduced weakly and without the subsequent back-story which I felt would have been far more effective the other way around. The ending left me with a smile on my face though. I'd highly recommend this to people with a dark sense of humor and an open mind. Certain things about it reminded me of Delicatessen...it had that kind of rich atmosphere, morbid humor, and quirky characters and story, but didn't tie together or pace itself as well.

This film is a poor attempt at comedy and horror. It has mild frights and even milder humor.The movie drags on for far too long and really is not very well cast.The most annoying thing about this tripe is the accents that some of the actors attempt to put on. Especially Monaghans character as a kid. The majority of Irish accents are laughable apart from the odd actual Irish person who got a role in the movie(you can spot the real accents very easily).Some scenes look like they where thrown together after the movie was finished to fill in the time.Please save yourself a few quid and rent/buy something else.