This week at AMC I take a look at Death.
Of all the landscapes in cinema, there’s one over which fantasy has almost exclusive domain: Death. What happens after we die is a subject we find ourselves eternally fascinated with, and it’s a question only a bit of surreality can hope to answer. Not surprisingly, each fantasy movie has its own theories about the afterlife. In presenting them, fantasy allows us to examine the darker and lighter sides of the human condition.
Go over and check out Ghost and Beetlejuice Debate the Facts of the Afterlife.