Review – I Sell the Dead

Though I’m on the record many times complaining about the horror comedy as a sub-genre, every once in awhile one catches me at just the right time and in just the right way. Dominic Monaghan plays a criminal condemned to death for murder and grave robbing, denying the former charge while admitting the latter to a curious monk (Ron Perlman) who wants to hear his story. And what a story it is. It starts out as standard grave robbing stuff, but before the end we get vampires, zombies, space aliens, mummies, and at least the suggestion of sea monsters. To be sure, a lot of the humor is too broad by far. But some of it cleverly sends up older horror movies, particularly the Hammer catalog. Worth seeing