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I Sell the Dead
Comedy, Drama, Horror
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy irreverent period horror-comedy with grotesque imagery, macabre banter, and an affectionate odd-couple partnership.
- Tone
- darkly comic, campy, playful
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- mortality, friendship, forbidden commerce, storytelling
- Setting
- eighteenth-century, grim prisons, churchyards, and rural backwaters
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