OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (2014, original title Kuime) is another film from the incredibly prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike. This one's set at a theatre, where a troup of actors are busy rehearsing their latest production, a stage adaptation of a classic ghost story. Trouble arises when the actors begin to adopt the roles of their fictional counterparts and things come to a head when madness, adultery and murder plays out. As interesting as the plot is, this is very much a disappointing film, a real slow-burner where very little happens for the first hour and ten minutes. It's very low budget and has that horrid digital look that I despise, and the actors have very little to work with. Things pick up for the climax, where Miike brings in some of his traditional nastiness with a very unpleasant self abortion scene and some grisly ghostly hijinks right at the end, but for me it's too little, too late at that point.
Review of Over Your Dead Body
