Autopsy

Autopsy

Credits
Title:	Autopsy
Directed by:	Adam Gierasch
Written by:	Adam Gierasch; Jace Anderson; E.L. Katz
Produced by:	Michael Arata; Darrel Casalino; Jerry Daigle; Harmon Kaslow; Raymond J. Markovich; John Martin; Mike Marvin; Olga Mirimskaya
Music by:	Joseph Bishara
Cinematography:	Anthony B. Richmond
Edited by:	Andrew Cohen
Production
Distributors:	A-Mark Entertainment FlipZide Pictures Voodoo Production Services After Dark Films
Released:	August 24th, 2008
Rating:	R
Running time:	84 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	$4,000,000 ^[1]
Gross:	Unknown
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Autopsy is an independent American horror film of the psycho-thriller subgenre. It was directed by Adam Gierasch and written by Giearasch, Jace Anderson and E.L. Katz. It was produced by A-Mark Entertainment, FlipZide Pictures and Voodoo Production Services and premiered in the UK on August 24th, 2008. The movie stars Michael Bowen, Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes, Ashley Schneider, Ross Kohn and Jenette Goldstein. The premise of the film involves a group of friends returning home from Mardi Gras in New Orleans when they are involved in a traffic accident. They are immediately rushed to a nearby hospital only to discover that this particular medical center is responsible for conducting obscene and grotesque experiments on living patients.

Plot

Cast

Actor

Role

Michael Bowen

Travis

Robert Patrick

Doctor David Benway

Jessica Lowndes

Emily

Ashley Schneider

Clare

Ross Kohn

Bobby

Jenette Goldstein

Nurse Marian

Robert LaSardo

Scott

Arcady Golubovich

Dmitriy

Ross McCall

Jude

Greg Brazzel

Man under car

Elijah Hardy

Gregory

Kevin M. White

Man in hallway

Tatyana Kanavka

Gretchen

Jeff Deist

Scarred naked man

Eric F. Adams

Officer Mike Jacobs

Janine Venable

Lisette

Marcus Morales

Skinny kid on hospital bed

William Hope

Additional voices

Ryan O'Quinn

Additional voices

Notes & Trivia

The tagline for this film is, "It's not just the dead anymore".

Autopsy premiered at the London FrightFest Film Festival on August 24th, 2008. It premiered in the United States at the After Dark Horrofest on January 9th, 2009, earning the film the "Eight Films to Die For" honorific.

Autopsy was released to DVD on March 31st, 2009 by Lions Gate Home Entertainment.

The Mardi Gras scenes were filmed on-location in New Orleans, Louisiana with some scenes filmed in Jackson. Interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California.

This is the first horror film directed by Adam Gierasch. Adam is also an actor who has appeared in such films as Spiders, Asylum, Crocodile and Tobe Hooper's remake of 2004 Toolbox Murders.

FlipZide Pictures also co-produced Final Destination.

Actress Jenette Goldstein is best known for playing the role of Private Vasquez in the 1986 sci-fi/action film Aliens as well as the vampire Diamondback in the Kathryn Bigelow film Near Dark.

Screenwriter E.L. Katz got his start in the industry working as a horror/music journalist for While You Were Sleeping, Fangoria, Creature-Corner, and Life Sucks Die.

Screenwriter Jace Anderson also worked on such low-budget independent horror films as as Spiders, Asylum, Crocodile, Crocodile 2: Death Swamp', Rats, the remake of Toolbox Murders, Mortuary and the 2009 remake of Night of the Demons.

William Hope and Ryan O'Quinn are uncredited in this film.

Bloopers

Note: These were taken from the Autopsy page at IMDB. Their accuracy has not been verified.

A brief glimpse of a wall sign as Emily runs up a flight of stairs shows the letters to be backwards, indicating that the shot was reversed.

After Jude's death, Emily runs up a flight of stairs, seen with the sharp tool she used to stab Travis with. When she exits the stairs and enters the hallway, she is empty handed.

When the girl answers the phone at the nurse station, she does not depress the lighted line button. This was necessary on these types of phones. As it sat with no line depressed, she would have had no connection.