I’ve added screen captures of Dominic’s appearance as Arthur Blake in “I Sell the Dead”. I want to give a HUGE thank you to Stef (www.emmanuellevaugier.net) for capping the movie and donating the screen captures!! Very much appreciated! Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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From its widescreen atmospherics and “Hammer Horror”-meets-“The X-Files” milieu to its Kurt Weill-like score, “I Sell the Dead” is the “Inglourious Basterds” of grave-robber movies.

Written and directed by Dublin-born Glenn McQuaid, an extension of his 2005 short “The Resurrection Apprentice,” the film begins with a James Whale-inspired creditsequence and regurgitates and transplants the tale of the Edinburgh-based body snatchers Burke and Hare and updates it with such delectable touches as zombies, aliens and ultra-widescreen visuals.

Holy “Bride of Frankenstein,” I think I’m going to like this, says your average die-hard horror film buff.
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“I Sell the Dead” is an awesome little horror throwback that is done extremely well considering what must have been a fairly small budget. And by saying the film has a small budget is by no means a knock as the clever and fun script managed to lure both Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman, but the whole film just has an air of smart, exhilarating indie spirit throughout. From spraying blood to boogey men to “what-the-hell-was-THAT-thing type effects, “I Sell the Dead” is just good old fashioned horror. And besides, when you’re making a fun film with good people and a smart script, you don’t need CGI or overblown scares and frights. Throw in a clear vision as to what your film is supposed to be and “I Sell the Dead” is a winner.

The basic storyline centers on Arthur Blake (Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Fessenden), 2 grave robbers in what seems to be turn of the century England. Foggy streets lined with cobblestones give way to rickety graveyards on the outskirts of town where Grimes and Blake make their living digging up fresh corpses for local kook Dr. Quint (Scrimm). The film kicks off as Blake awaits execution for his crimes and is joined by Father Duffy (Perlman) to fess up to his wrong-doings. Over a bottle of whiskey, Blake recounts how he got into the grave robbing business and regales the priest with tales of horror, backstabbing and creatures of the night as evidently the area Grimes and Blake live in is rife with zombies, demons, vampires and your basic menagerie of ghouls.
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We’ve just updated the gallery with a new poster from I Sell the Dead. Enjoy!

Revisionist horror favorite Larry Fessenden (director of HABIT, WENDIGO and THE LAST WINTER) returned to Montreal’s just-wrapped Fantasia film festival this year with two new films from his indie-horror production company Scareflix: Ti West’s incredibly atmospheric ‘80s horror tribute HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (a smash success at Tribeca and a late but great addition to the Fantasia program; see review here) and Glenn McQuaid’s period horror-comedy tribute to British ‘60s/’70s horror classics, I SELL THE DEAD (another Fango rave; see here; I SELL THE DEAD goes into limited theatrical release this Friday and is concurrently available as a video-on-demand from IFC Films).

Fessenden was on hand with co-producer Peter Phok and first-time feature director Glenn McQuaid for their award-winning I SELL THE DEAD, a one-of-a-kind dark adventure film depicting the daily lives and supernatural woes of two lowlife body-snatchers, played by Fessenden himself and Dominic Monaghan of LORD OF THE RINGS fame.
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18th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of the guillotine looming over him, young Blake confides in visiting clergyman Father Duffy, recounting fifteen years of adventure in the resurrection trade. His tale leads from humble beginnings as a young boy stealing trinkets from corpses, to a partnership with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes as they hunt creatures unwilling to accept their place in the ground. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure, horror, and vicious rivalries that threaten to put all involved in the very graves they’re trying to pilfer.

Bloody Disgusting: You are part of the Scareflix team, did the film develop within that group or was this something you brought to them?

Glenn McQuaid: It was based on a short film I did six years, which I wrote and directed, called The Resurrection Apprentice. And I met Larry Fessenden and asked him to be on the project. He didn’t produce it, he just the lead actor on it. And that was the start of my collaborations with Larry, as a director to his acting. I also performed visual effects for Ti West on his film the Roost, and some of the other guys, like James McKenney, the whole Glass Eye troupe of filmmakers. And I was just sort of helping them out, either with visual effects or title sequences. But I just always wanted to get a feature film off the ground, especially through Glass Eye because I think Larry just brings out something special in the filmmakers he works with. So I basically just twisted Larry’s arm and made him produce the movie.
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One of this year’s quirkier horror offerings is opening in limited release on August 7th and we’ve got the official trailer from distributor IFC Films. Below you can watch the latest preview for I Sell the Dead from director Glenn McQuaid. The film follows Larry Fessenden and Dominic Monaghan, grave robbers who land in all sorts of trouble. Fun stuff – definitely check it out if it comes your way! If it doesn’t reach a theater near you, you can catch it August 12th On Demand.

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One would think that being a grave robber was a hard enough career. But in writer-director Glenn McQuaid’s bumptious horror comedy, “I Sell the Dead,” it’s a one-way ticket to indentured servitude and terrifying encounters with the undead.

Set in a particularly fog-shrouded corner of 19th century Ireland, the film is a buddy story about a pair of no-luck grave robbers, crusty old drunk Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden in fully whiskered, slovenly oaf mode) and impish joker Arthur Blake (a particularly puckish Dominic Monaghan), who discover that successfully stealing corpses is the least of their concerns.

The result is smart, gruesome and inventive enough to more than please niche genre fans who are likely to spread the word to fellow admirers of gallows humor.
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Good news for those waiting to see this Dominic Monaghan-Ron Perlman horror-comedy I Sell the Dead. After touring festival for over a year and leaving their fans wanting, they’ve finally found US distribution, courtesy of IFC Films. IFC plans to release the film this August both theatrically and on Video on Demand services.

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The joy behind this film is right there in the old-time, exploitation-tinged title. The grim undertakings of the storyline – about a pair of grave robbers whose trade turns more and more curious – is undercut by a devious irreverence. Irish writer-director Glenn McQuaid is out to make a horror comedy, in which the main players soon turn into bumbling bits of irony. Yet “I Sell the Dead” sports playful genre inventiveness, in which fans can delight and even outsiders can enjoy.

McQuaid fashions a flashback narrative structure, in which Father Duffy, played by Ron Perlman – that character actor who will inhabit offbeat historical roles forever – visits an imprisoned Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan), who awaits the guillotine for body snatching. While this confessional approach suggests the fatalism of something like “Double Indemnity,” the tone remains slight, thanks to light performances and a kitschy soundtrack.
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