The Autopsy of Jane Doe
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| Directed by | André Øvredal |
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| Cinematography | Romain Osin |
| Edited by | Patrick Larsgaard |
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| Distributed by | IFC Midnight |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal. It stars Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox as father-and-son coroners who experience supernatural phenomena while examining the body of an unidentified woman (played by Olwen Kelly). It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2016, and was released on December 21. It is Øvredal's first English-language film.
An unidentified corpse of a woman is found half-buried in the basement of a house where a bloody and bizarre homicide has occurred. One of the police officers concludes that there are no signs of forced entry and the victims seemed to be trying to escape the house instead.
Small-town coroner Tommy Tilden and his son Austin, a medical technician who assists him, have just finished the autopsy of a burned corpse when Austin's girlfriend, Emma, arrives and gets curious about the bodies in the morgue. When she notices a bell tied to the ankle of a dead body, Tommy explains to her that, in the past, the bells were used to signal if someone was actually just in a comatose state instead of really dead. The sheriff arrives with the mysterious body and tells Tommy that he needs the cause of death (COD) by morning. Austin decides to help his dad instead of going to the theater with Emma, but asks her to come back later. It's also revealed that Austin plans to leave to another city with his girlfriend, as he dislikes the job and he only does it to help his dad.
Since no one knows the body's identity and its fingerprints are not on police records, they refer to her as Jane Doe. Austin and Tommy start the autopsy with an external examination of the corpse, which has no visible signs of trauma and no scars or marks. They discover that her eyes are cloudy, which is something that usually only happens to bodies that have been dead for a few days, yet the corpse looks fresh. They find that her wrist and ankle bones are shattered without any outward signs of injury. They extract from her nails and hair a kind of peat that is only naturally found in the northern U.S. They also discover that her tongue has been non-surgically removed and one of her teeth is missing. Tommy proceeds to examine her vagina and concludes that it was mutilated.
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