Well that was interesting... albeit confusing. I guess the play they were making was coming to life and affecting them. Still not sure what happened at the end there though. It was well shot, acted and had some decent effects though.

Takashi Miike's best film since 13 Assassins - a post-modern take on Yotsuya Kwaidan.

Over Your Dead Body will certainly appeal to Miike's hardcore fan base, for his technical mastery of blood is on display throughout.

Instead of relying on frenetic insanity and buckets of viscera, this movie sets an uneasy tone where tension slowly crawls to its peak.

two parallel narratives bleed into one another in a deeply irrational manner, blurring the boundaries between theatre and film, antique and (post)modern, actor and character, the living and the dead.