Fresh
With visuals this gruesome and flashy, who needs seamless storytelling?
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rigor Mortis
The Dead Will Rise.
2013 · 1h 45m · Not Rated
Action, Drama, Horror
Directed by
Juno Mak
Overview
When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampires: or Jiāngshī. Elsewhere in the building, a woman turns to a specialist in black magic to bring her husband back to life.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[A] relentlessly creepy film ...
Daniel M. Gold, New York Times
Fresh
Even if Mak's drawn-out special effects seem like overkill, the bottom line is that he spins a good campfire yarn.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten
Director Juno Mak might have pulled off this potpourri if it weren't for a cop-out ending.
Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
A discolored, comparatively humorless, slow-build horror movie whose connection to the hopping-vampire craze would seem tenuous if it weren't continually asserting it.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
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