Corpse: STREAM IT ODER SKIP IT?
The essentials: Slowly zoom out one eyeball in a painting of a goat’s head that is not attached to the rest of the goat and is resting on a plate. Cut to the outside: It’s effed. Leonora (Gitte Witt), Jacob (Thomas Gullestad) and their daughter Alice (Tuva Olivia Remman) make their way through the ruins wherever they are looking for food. Newspapers (remember these?) Make headlines about nuclear disasters because the last thing many people did before they died was write and print articles about how they were likely to die. The family barricades themselves in a house where they are likely to starve to death, but at least they are safe from whoever knocks threateningly on the door, probably with Jehovah’s Witness literature.
The next day, as they are eating some dust in a delicious ash sauce, an outside voice calls out to gather people: Come on, watch a show and get some food. Sounds like an evening theater by the damned to me, but hey, I’ve got a fridge full of lunchables. The scenario seems lazy, but hey, this is a film from Norway in which herring is a major exclamation point for export rimshots! Leo, Jacob and Alice wander to a nearby majestic hotel, where a fancy staff serves them and many other attendees a sumptuous meal that might as well be one shoe on a plate as we wait for the other to drop.
Mathias (Thorbjorn Harr), the organizer of this meeting, at which SURELY does not take advantage of desperate people, then takes the stage, says it is time for everyone to forget the outside world for a while and introduces the piece that the audience is currently watching plays experience. Participants wear creepy gold masks to distinguish them from the actors who walk around the hotel playing scenes. Our Protag family follows a woman through halls with soft carpets and stairs that seem to twist down towards the stern, and the whole thing has a creepy feel to it, but Leo may be delighted because she was mostly a stage actress herself, mostly in Macbeth. Some of the “dramatic scenes” they see are kind of violent, others are from people who do. Then there is a moment when Leo and Jacob just let Alice run away because they are Dolts and they run up and down a red hallway and then run up and down a blue hallway to find her and panic because maybe not that was such a great idea and what about this goat head painting anyway?
What movies will it remind you of ?: Corpse starts like The street and then somehow A quiet place and then resembles Eyes wide closed and finally reminds me of a movie I shouldn’t mention because it will ruin the twist, although you will likely see it from a mile away.
Achievement worth seeing: (Checks notes) (furrowed brows) (cough) (hides in bathroom for five hours)
Memorable dialogue: “Tonight you will open up the person in you.” – Mathias spits out nonsense
Sex and skin: Like I said, two people did it. It’s not very sexy though.
Our opinion: As that one man put it, the whole world is a stage, and the men and women only pawn in an uncooked film with a predictable plot, a few flashes of visual flair, and nothing to say. It’s limp as a dead herring before it’s put on hold. Concept? Blah. Fear? No no. Character? Carton. Story? Weak. The atmosphere? A smidgen. Tension? A little less than a smidgen. Climatic slo-mo sequence that hardly deserves the right to be presented in climatic slo-mo? Naturally!
In the 1980s, Corpse would have been packed in a black and white container with the label on it Generic horror movie and underneath it would read “86 minutes”. Because that’s exactly what it does – it fills 86 minutes. There is very little about this film that sets it apart from many, many others of its kind, and it is meant to be seen only by madmen who watch every horror movie in existence like it’s a life’s work or something. I don’t know why it’s called either Corpse. I think every horror movie has a carcass at some point, so they should all be titled Corpse!
Our call: SKIP IT. My hopes that the goat head pic would mean this was a cool satanic movie were unfounded.
John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read more about his work on johnserbaatlarge.com or follow him on Twitter: @ Johnserba.
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