History Film / AfterLife

* LonersAreFreaks: Deacon is a classic example, though does it seem slightly odd that he has no employees at all to help him with his successful funeral business and his large mansion. He appears to do everything himself and he pays great attention to detail, in one scene we find him delicately trimming a hedge with a pair of scissors.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Liam Neeson, as he usual when he plays Americans.

* LonerAreFreaks: Deacon is a classic example, though does it seem slightly odd that he has no employees at all to help him with his successful funeral business and his large mansion. He appears to do everything himself and he pays great attention to detail, in one scene we find him delicately trimming a hedge with a pair of scissors.

* OohMeAccent'sSlipping: Liam Neeson, as he usually does when playing Americans.

* FanService: Christina Ricci spends a good portion of the film topless while convinced she is dead and being prepared for her own funeral.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: Creator/LiamNeeson plays a mortician named Elliot who claims to have the ability to [[ISeeDEadPeople speak to the dead]]. Throughout the movie, he talks to the main character (who is dead) in hopes of getting her to move on with her life. [[spoiler:It turns out in the end that he was lying the whole time and that the main character was alive the whole time. However, there had been foreshadowing for ''both'' options on whether he was lying or not, with lots of those moments pointing towards the former. And one large hint that he [[KarmaHoudini has been doing it for a long time]].]]
* FanService: Christina Ricci spends a good portion of the film naked while convinced she is dead and being prepared for her own funeral.

* ISeeDeadPeople: Deacon appears to posses this ability. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he's a SerialKiller who drugs people to make them seem dead, burying them alive, because he feels they've wasted their lives, making them unworthy of life. He also (in the case of Anna at least) then convinces them of the fact, claiming this power as his explanation for why he can speak with them when they're supposedly dead.]]

* TheEndingChangesEverything: Creator/LiamNeeson plays a mortician named Elliot who claims to have the ability to [[{{Psychopomp}} speak to the dead]]. Throughout the movie, he talks to the main character (who is dead) in hopes of getting her to move on with her life. [[spoiler:It turns out in the end that he was lying the whole time and that the main character was alive the whole time. However, there have been foreshadowing for ''both'' options on whether he was lying or not. With lots of those moments pointing towards the former. And one large hint that he [[KarmaHoudini has been doing it for a long time]].]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Deacon manages to evade having his true activities revealed even when Paul is ''right outside the door'' from where Anna is, alive; having convinced her she's dead and has to "move on", she doesn't reveal herself. He then later goads Paul into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, getting rid of one of the only two people who could have revealed him. Jack, the other person who knows, is recruited by Deacon, who fooled him into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and calmly watches as Deacon kills Paul, convinced that he's just a spirit. Deacon gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]

''After.Life'' is a 2009 paranoid thriller film starring LiamNeeson, Creator/ChristinaRicci, and Justin Long.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: LiamNeeson plays a mortician named Elliot who claims to have the ability to [[{{Psychopomp}} speak to the dead]]. Throughout the movie, he talks to the main character (who is dead) in hopes of getting her to move on with her life. [[spoiler:It turns out in the end that he was lying the whole time and that the main character was alive the whole time. However, there have been foreshadowing for ''both'' options on whether he was lying or not. With lots of those moments pointing towards the former. And one large hint that he [[KarmaHoudini has been doing it for a long time]].]]

''After.Life'' is a 2009 paranoid thriller film starring LiamNeeson, ChristinaRicci, and Justin Long.

* FanService: Christina Ricci spends a good portion of the film topless while convinced she is dead and being prepared for her own funeral.

* KarmaHoudini-[[spoiler: Deacon manages to evade having his true activities revealed even when Paul is ''right outside the door'' from where Anna is, alive; having convinced her she's dead and has to "move on", she doesn't reveal herself. He then later goads Paul into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, getting rid of one of the only two people who could have revealed him. Jack, the other person who knows, is recruited by Deacon, who fooled him into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and calmly watches as Deacon kills Paul, convinced that he's just a spirit. Deacon gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]
* ISeeDeadPeople-Deacon appears to posses this ability. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he's a SerialKiller who drugs people to make them seem dead, burying them alive, because he feels they've wasted their lives, making them unworthy of life. He also (in the case of Anna at least) then convinces them of the fact, claiming this power as his explanation for why he can speak with them when they're supposedly dead]].

* TruthInTelevision: Hydronium Bromide is fictional, but such effects ' 'are' ' possible with drugs.

After.Life is a 2009 paranoid thriller film starring LiamNeeson, ChristinaRicci, and Justin Long. Ricci stars as Anna Taylor, a young school teacher whose relationship with her boyfriend Paul Coleman (Long) has grown strained. After fighting with him at dinner over a misunderstanding, she drives off and gets in a car accident. She wakes up in the funeral home of Elliot Deacon (Neeson) who says that she's dead. Apparently he has the gift (or curse, as he later complains) of being able to see and speak with the dead. However, she begins to suspect he may be lying, as does her boyfriend Paul, but time is running out as the funeral is in two days, with Deacon intent on completing his work...

!!After.Life includes examples of the following tropes:

* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: No one believes Paul when he claims Anna is really still alive]].
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:LiamNeeson plays a mortician named Elliot who claims to have the ability to [[{{Psychopomp}} speak to the dead]]. Throughout the movie, he talks to the main character (who is dead) in hopes of getting her to move on with her life. It turns out in the end that he was lying the whole time and that the main character was alive the whole time. However, there have been foreshadowing for ''both'' options on whether he was lying or not. With lots of those moments pointing towards the former. And one large hint that he [[KarmaHoudini has been doing it for a long time]].]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: It's never revealed how Deacon chooses his victims, besides Paul, though it seems to be set up in advance, since he appears to have followed Anna in the van before her accident. On that note, it seems hard to insure someone wouldn't be killed before he could get to them, and why bother? What's his need, convincing people they're dead to bury them alive?]]

After.Life is a 2009 paranoid thriller film starring LiamNeeson, ChristinaRicci, and Justin Long. Ricci stars as Anna Taylor, a young school teacher who's relationship with her boyfriend Paul Coleman (Long) has grown strained. After fighting with him at dinner over a misunderstanding, she drives off and gets in a car accident. She wakes up in the funeral home of Elliot Deacon (Neeson) who says that she's dead. Apparently he has the gift (or curse, as he later complains) of being able to see and speak with the dead. However, she begins to suspect he may be lying, as does her boyfriend Paul, but time is running out as the funeral is in two days, with Deacon intent on completing his work...

* FanService: Christina Ricci spends a good portion of the film nude while convinced she's dead and being prepared for her own funeral.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There were clues from the beginning that Anna wasn't actually dead. A white van follows her prior to the accident (the same type which we later see Deacon drive), her injuries did not appear sufficient to be fatal (though granted, that isn't definitive-people can be killed without much visible damage), injecting a corpse is pointless as the blood wouldn't circulate it, the drug he injects her with is said to cause the appearance of death, her breath fogged the mirror up (which Deacon wipes away the first time-why bother if she's actually dead?), she can't leave the room (why does Deacon race back to stop her when he finds she's taken his keys, if she's really a ghost?) Plus the way Deacon adjusts the thermostat for his morgue (why, if they're popsicles already? It could be invisible, odorless gas to knock Anna out)]].

* ISeeDeadPeople-Deacon appears to posses this ability. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he's a SerialKiller who drugs people to make them seem dead, burying them alive, because he feels they've wasted their lives, making them unworthy of life. He also, in the case of Anna at least, then convinces them of the fact, claiming this power as his explanation for why he can speak with them when they're supposedly dead]].

After.Life is a 2009 paranoid thriller film starring LiamNeeson, ChristinaRicci, and Justin Long. Ricci stars as Anna Taylor, a young school teacher who's having relationship to her boyfriend Paul Coleman (Long) has grown strained. After fighting with him at dinner due to a misunderstanding, she drives off and gets in a car accident. She wakes up in the funeral home of Elliot Deacon (Neeson) who says that she's dead. Apparently he has the gift (or curse, as he later complains) of being able to see the dead and speak with the dead. However, she begins to suspect he may be lying, as does her boyfriend Paul, but time is running out as the funeral is in two days, with Deacon intent on completing his work...

* FanService: Christina Ricci spends a good portion of the film nude [[spoiler: while convinced she's dead, and being prepared for her own funeral]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There were clues from the beginning that Anna wasn't actually dead. A white van follows her prior to the accident (which we later see Deacon drive), her injuries did not appear sufficient to be fatal (though granted, that isn't definitive-people can be killed without much visible damage), injecting a corpse is pointless as the blood wouldn't circulate it, the drug he injects her with is said to cause the appearance of death, her breath fogged the mirror up (which Deacon wipes away the first time-why bother if she's actually dead?), she can't leave the room (why does Deacon race back to stop her when he finds she's taken his keys, if she's really a ghost?) Plus the way Deacon adjusts the thermostat for his morgue (why, if they're popsicles already? It may be gas to knock Anna out)]].
* KarmaHoudini-[[spoiler: Deacon manages to evade having his true activities revealed even when Paul is ''right outside the door'' from where Anna is, alive; having convinced her she's alive, she doesn't reveal herself. He then later goads Paul into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, getting rid of one of the only two people who could have revealed him. Jack, the other, is recruited by Deacon, who fooled him into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and calmly watches as Deacon kills Paul, convinced that he's just a spirit. Deacon gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]

* TruthInTelevision: Hydronium Bromide is fictional, but such effect ' 'are' ' possible with drugs.

* FridgeHorror: Jack asks which dead person Deacon first saw. Deacon says it was his mother. [[spoiler: Given that it's revealed he doesn't actually see the dead, but makes living people appear to have died, so he can bury them alive, maybe she was his first victim.]]

* NightmareFuel: The whole plot, but a few instances stand out in particular: [[spoiler: Anna realizes she isn't dead, after being buried in the grave, Jack burying his pet chick alive, imitating Deacon...]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: It's never revealed how Deacon chooses his victims, besides Paul, though it seems to be set up in advance, since he was following Anna in the van before her accident. On that note, it seems hard to insure someone wouldn't be killed before he could get to them, and why bother? What's his need, convincing people they're dead to bury them alive?]]

* TruthInTelevision: Hydronium Bromide is fictional, but that effect ' 'is' ' possible with drugs.

* ISeeDeadPeople-Deacon appears to posses this ability. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he's a PhonyPsychic and SerialKiller, who drugs people to make them seem dead, then convinces them of the fact, burying them alive, because he feels they've wasted their lives, making them unworthy of life. He also ]].

* KarmaHoudini-[[spoiler: Deacon manages to evade having his true activities revealed even when Paul is ''right outside the door'' from where Anna is, alive; having convinced her she's alive, she doesn't reveal herself. He then later goads Paul into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, getting rid of one of the only two people who could have revealed him. Jack, the other, is recruited by Deacon, who fooled him into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and is convinced calmly watches as Deacon kills Paul, convinced that he's just a spirit. Deacon gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]

* TruthInTelevision: Hydronium Bromide is fictional, but that effect ' 'is' ' possible with drugs.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There were clues from the beginning that Anna wasn't actually dead. A white van follows her prior to the accident (which we later see Deacon drive), her injuries did not appear enough to be fatal (although granted, that isn't definitive-people can deal without much visible damage), injecting a corpse is pointless, as the blood wouldn't circulate it, the drug he injects her with is said to cause the appearance of death, her breath fogged the mirror up (which Deacon wipes away the first time-why bother if she's actually dead), she can't leave the room (why does Deacon race back to stop her when he finds she's taken his keys, if she's really a ghost?) Plus the way Deacon adjusts the thermostat for his morgue (why, if they're popsicles already? It may be gas to knock Anna out)]].

* KarmaHoudini-[[spoiler: Deacon manages to bluff his way out of being caught, when Paul is ''right outside the door'' from where Anna is, alive; having convinced her she's alive, she doesn't reveal herself. He then later goads Paul into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, getting rid of one of the only two people who could have revealed him. Jack, the other, is recruited by Deacon, who fooled him into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and is convinced calmly watches as Deacon kills Paul, convinced that he's just a spirit. Deacon gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]

* KarmaHoudini-[[spoiler: Deacon manages to bluff his way out of being caught, when Paul is ''right outide the door from where Anna is, alive; having convinced her she's alive, she doesn't reveal herself. He then later goads Paul into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, getting rid of one of the only two people who could have revealed him. Jack, the other, is recruited by Deacon, who fooled him into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and is convinced calmly watches as Deacon kills Paul, convinced that he's just a spirit. Deacon gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]

* KarmaHoudini-[[spoiler: Deacon drugs people so they'll appear dead, even convincing Anna of the fact afterward, then does the same thing to Paul when he goads him into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, at the same time recruiting an innocent boy, Jack, who he fooled into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]

* ISeeDeadPeople-Deacon appears to see the dead and speak with them. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he's a PhonyPsychic and SerialKiller, who drugs people to make them seem dead, then convinces them of the fact, burying them alive, because he feels they've wasted their lives, making them unworthy of life]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: There were clues from the beginning that Anna wasn't actually dead. A white van follows her prior to the accident (which we later see Deacon drive), her injuries did not appear enough to be fatal (although granted, that isn't definitive-people can deal without much visible damage), injecting a corpse is pointless, as the blood wouldn't circulate it, the drug he injects her with is said to cause the appearance of death, her breath fogged the mirror up (which Deacon wipes away the first time-why bother if she's actually dead), she can't leave the room (why does Deacon race back to stop her when he finds she's taken his keys-aren't ghosts [[Intangible Man intangible]]?) Plus the way Deacon adjusts the thermostat for his morgue (why, if they're popsicles already? It may be gas to knock Anna out)]].

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: There were clues from the beginning that Anna wasn't actually dead. A white van follows her prior to the accident (which we later see Deacon drive), her injuries did not appear enough to be fatal (although granted, that isn't definitive-people can deal without much visible damage), injecting a corpse is pointless, as the blood wouldn't circulate it, the drug he injects her with is said to cause the appearance of death, her breath fogged the mirror up (which Deacon wipes away the first time-why bother if she's actually dead), she can't leave the room (why does Deacon race back to stop her when he finds she's taken his keys-aren't ghosts [[Intangible Man intangible]]?) Plus the way Deacon adjusts the thermostat for his morgue (why, if they're popsicles already? It may be gas to knock Anna out)]].
* Fridge Horror: Jack asks which dead person Deacon first saw. Deacon says it was his mother. [[spoiler: Given that it's revealed he doesn't actually see the dead, but makes living people appear to have died, so he can bury them alive, maybe she was his first victim.]]
* Karma Houdini-[[spoiler: Deacon drugs people so they'll appear dead, even convincing Anna of the fact afterward, then does the same thing to Paul when he goads him into speeding off to check whether she's really dead or not (he may have drugged him beforehand), and then kills him in the funeral home, at the same time recruiting an innocent boy, Jack, who he fooled into thinking they both can speak with the dead, and gets away clean. He's also done this many times before, judging by his array of corpse photos (Word Of God says those with their eyes open were alive, like Anna)...]]
* Nightmare Fuel: The whole plot, but a few instances stand out in particular: [[spoiler: Anna realizes she isn't dead, after being buried in the grave, Jack burying his pet chick alive, imitating Deacon...]]
* I See Dead People-Deacon appears to see the dead and speak with them. [[spoiler: However, it turns out he's a PhonyPsychic and SerialKiller, who drugs people to make them seem dead, then convinces them of the fact, burying them alive, because he feels they've wasted their lives, making them unworthy of life]].
* Truth In Television: Hydronium Bromide is fictional, but that effect ' 'is' ' possible with drugs.

* Fridge Horror: Jack asks which dead person Deacon first saw. Deacon says it was his mother. [[spoiler: Given that it's revealed he doesn't actually see the dead, but makes living people appear to have died, so he can bury them alive...]].

* Nightmare Fuel: The whole plot, but a few instances stand out in particular: [[spoiler: Anna realizes she isn't dead, after being buried in the grave, Jack burying his pet chick alive, imitating Deacon...]].