Synopsis
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
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Cast
- Emile HirschAustin Tilden
- Brian CoxTommy Tilden
- Ophelia LovibondEmma
- Olwen Catherine KellyJane Doe
- Michael McElhattonSheriff Sheldon
- Parker SawyersOfficer Cole
- Jane PerryLieutenant Wade
- Mark PhoenixLouis Tannis
- Mary DuddyIrene Daniels
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
Gruesome without being gory, The Autopsy of Jane Doe achieves real scares with a minimum of special effects. - 75
The Film Stage
Øvredal gives us B-movie thrills better than most of his peers, creating a campy, nasty, tremendously fun horror experience in which death proves not the ending we might expect. - 75
RogerEbert.com
So clever and well-done that it makes the sins of the finale easy to forgive. - 75
The A.V. Club
Cox and Hirsch are both accomplished actors with an easy, believable chemistry, and Cox in particular has the gravitas to really sell some of the more grotesque plot twists. - 70
Variety
While “Autopsy” lives up to its title, providing plenty of grisly medical gore, the forensics induce less squirming than the exacting yet playful way Ovredal keeps making us anticipate more unnatural acts as the Tildens realize something is seriously amiss. - 70
We Got This Covered
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is an age-old story of family horror that benefits from an approach focused on dark whimsy instead of typical genre jumps. - 63
Slant Magazine
This is cinema’s most comprehensive look at the gruesome business of necropsy since Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes. - 60
CineVue
The two stars stay on their game but their relationship is largely sidetracked in favour of fending off ghouls. While the heart rate may increase the creepiness dissipates, though The Autopsy of Jane Doe remains good genre fun - if little more.
