The Life After Death Project (2013/MVD DVD Set)
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C Sound: C Extras: A Speculative Documentary: C+
Is there
life after death? Join several best
selling sci-fi authors, scientists and professors as they explore the life and
death of horror and science fiction luminary (and founder of the landmark Famous Monsters Magazine) Forrest J. Ackerman.
That even after his death, strange,
unexplained things happen around those who knew him as his friends and family
investigates these things, they seem to run into pranks that Forrest would have
played on them in life. Is he trying to
communicate to them from beyond the grave? As the scientist tries to prove him wrong, a
series of coincidences would make you think otherwise in The Life After Death Project.
Forrest
Ackerman has been a film genre fan all his life and an atheist, but the wonder
of if there is life beyond death is something he may have discovered, that if
he should die and discover something greater out there he would try a communicate
back that there is something. A series
of scientific investigation begins when one of his friends discover a letter
mysteriously blackened out, as they investigate further, the scientist are
baffled and as more messages are found as if they were from Ackerman, laughing
at them from beyond the grave.
This was
an interesting documentary; the story of one possible mischievous spirit that
may have returned from beyond the grave. As science has not proven the existence of a
soul, spirit or heaven or hell, they have at least theories of if did exist,
somehow someday science will be able to prove it and contact it. The piece does not explore faith but rather
phenomenon around it, it touches on events and things that science can not
quiet yet prove or deny that it may exist.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image can be soft and weak throughout and that
is not from archive footage, but bad visual effects and bad shooting, whi8le
the lossy Dolby Digital sound has location audio issues. Extras include tribute to Forrest Ackerman,
excerpts from authors, scientist and doctors, Sci-fi Museum of Seattle and DVD
of other testimonies of life beyond death.
- Ricky Chiang
