I'll Take Your Dead

The new film from director Chad Archibald, who four years ago surprised with the solid body horror Bite, but apparently it was just a fluke, because the rest of his work isn't worth much. The film has a fairly novel and appealing premise about a guy who makes his living disposing of corpses that gangsters dump at his door, and it's a shame that there aren't any explicit scenes along those lines. Everything changes once one of the "corpses" turns out to be still alive. It's odd that the film comes across as more of a drama. It may not be downright boring, but there are no interesting moments at all. The acting is mediocre and the final action sequence is shot in a very cheap and uninteresting way. The main character and his daughter are likeable, but that is not enough to make a good film. I expected more. 40% (05/04/2019)