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07/22/08
A Chronicle of Corpses (2001)
63 %
Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 83 mins
Synopsis: Set in the early Nineteenth Century, A CHRONICLE OF CORPSES is a slow-paced chiller from maverick director Andrew Repasky McElhinney. The eerie atmosphere of the movie has seen it gather a cult following, and many parallels have been drawn with the cult shocker from director Herk Harvey, A... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Marj Dusay
Director: Andrew Repasky McElhinney
Reviews
1 - 9 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Night of the Living Dead for kids who cut their teeth on Ken Russell.
02/24/03
Its narrative resonates and reverberates as only the most universal stories do.
04/11/02
What's most impressive about McElhinney's highbrow period film is its ability to satisfy snobbish cultural aesthetes while simultaneously fulfilling slasher film conventions.
11/07/01
The story is painfully familiar, and McIlhenney regularly stops it in its tracks by indulging the actors in arty monologues that sap the movie of any suspense or sense of momentum.
10/24/01
Not without the flaws endemic in low-budget productions but still projects an amazing degree of stylistic assurance and originality.
10/24/01
Top Critic
McElhinney may have made the ultimate anti-calling card, a movie bold and deranged enough to tip its hat to Edgar Ulmer and Barry Lyndon.
10/23/01
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