I'll Take Your Dead (2019)

Part home invasion thriller, part gangster film, part family drama, part haunted house movie, I'll Take Your Dead comes together as one taught and fully satisfying piece of art horror.

This is the story of a man who gets rid of bodies for gangsters, his life on his farm with his disturbed daughter, and how it all inevitably goes wrong. I did love that the film embraced its genres fully without reservation.

Like a great creepy story told late at night with a flashlight under your chin, I'll Take Your Dead goes beyond the tropes of its genres and weaves a little tale that gets under your skin. While I admit it is one of the rare occasions when a "horror" movie scared me (the jumps actually made me jump and look over my shoulder) it was a different kind of skin crawling which truly got me. It was the way the film taps into some pretty real emotions, the kind that offer you something to really chew on.

For parents, I'll Take Your Dead will truly make you reflect. Like recent horror mini-masterpieces The Babadook and It Comes at Night, I'll Take Your Dead explores how frightening being a parent truly is, the way we make choices we never thought we'd have to make, and the ways we fail.

Shot on a shoestring, the film occasionally feels like it cuts a corner here and there but the performances, the passion of the film makers, and the sweet pulpy story make up for any flaws to deliver a truly enjoyable experience.

I'll Take Your Dead
Starring: Aiden Devine, Ava Preston, Jess Salgueiro
Director: Chad Archibald
Writers: Jamie Laforest, Chad Archibald