Good movie but grossly overrated

A Disappointing Continuation

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) recounts his life as a grave robber to Father Duffy (Ron Perlman) as he awaits for his execution. His partner Willie Grimes has already been guillotined. He was a young boy when he started with Willie robbing graves for the demanding Dr. Quint. Quint demands more corpses and fresher ones all the time. Then the corpses start coming alive.I really don't like Monaghan and Perlman's scenes. They cut up and interrupt the story. It's also the men sitting and recounting the story which doesn't always add much to the movie. It's like a spoiler and one is always wondering if Blake is lying. It's not terribly funny even as a dark comedy. This is no Shaun of the Dead. The movie struggles to get any momentum. Whenever the movie pulls me in, it always gets interrupted by Monaghan and Perlman.

This movie turned out to be well worth the watch.One of the hobbits from Lord of the Rings Trilogy, teams up with the legendary Ron Perlman, to bring us a humorous Gothic tell of two grave robbers who sell bodies they dig up to mad scientist types. Sounds like a strange business to be in, but apparently their are a few movies about this particular subject set during the Victoria era of Britain, where this may have been a common way for the medical profession to get corpses to study, which makes the story even more Erie than it already is.I did not have any expectations when I watched the film, but I ended up being well entertained by the whole thing. It's a fun movie to see.

A priest is having the main character review his life of body snatching by telling various, otherwise unconnected, stories about his life of crime. This reminded me a LOT of some of the Hammer films where a group of unconnected stories are told by different people who just happen to be thrown together. Although the production quality of this film was light years ahead of the old Hammer movies, the "unconnected" feeling of the stories was the same.I actually watched this because I've been a Ron Perlman fan since "Quest for Fire", but Ron basically had just a walk on part (he's the priest). This was Dominic and Larry's film, and it looks like they had a lot of fun making it. Not exactly a riveting movie, but good for a lazy Saturday viewing if you have popcorn handy.

This film is a poor attempt at comedy and horror. It has mild frights and even milder humor.The movie drags on for far too long and really is not very well cast.The most annoying thing about this tripe is the accents that some of the actors attempt to put on. Especially Monaghans character as a kid. The majority of Irish accents are laughable apart from the odd actual Irish person who got a role in the movie(you can spot the real accents very easily).Some scenes look like they where thrown together after the movie was finished to fill in the time.Please save yourself a few quid and rent/buy something else.