Full Movie + Reaction: The Autopsy of Jane Doe R 2016

🩸 Overview

Director: André Øvredal

Writers: Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing

Genre: Supernatural / Horror / Mystery

Release: 2016

The movie unfolds almost entirely inside a small-town family-run morgue, blending forensic-procedural detail with occult horror.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Main Characters & Cast

Tommy Tilden – Brian Cox
A seasoned county coroner and widower who runs the basement-level Tilden Mortuary. Calm, clinical, but quietly grieving.

Austin Tilden – Emile Hirsch
Tommy’s only son and assistant coroner. He’s torn between leaving the family business for a new life with his girlfriend but stays the night to help his father with a late-night case.

Sheriff Sheldon Burke – Michael McElhatton
The county sheriff who brings in the mysterious body found at an apparently blood-soaked crime scene, pressing the Tildens for answers before dawn.

Emma – Ophelia Lovibond
Austin’s girlfriend, warm-hearted and curious. She visits the morgue early in the film, offering some brief lightness before events turn grim.

Jane Doe – Olwen Kelly
The unidentified female corpse. Her outwardly pristine, almost porcelain-like body hides horrific internal injuries and becomes the eerie, wordless center of the mystery.

Officer Cole – Parker Sawyers
The deputy who assists Sheriff Burke at the scene and in the morgue.

🫀 Full Plot Description

A grisly multiple-homicide is discovered in a quiet Virginia house; among the victims lies the half-buried body of an unknown young woman—naked, unmarked, and seemingly untouched by the carnage around her. Sheriff Burke brings the body—labeled only “Jane Doe”—to the experienced coroner Tommy Tilden and his son Austin for an immediate autopsy, hoping they can explain her death before the press arrives.

As they examine her, outwardly there is no trauma: her skin flawless, wrists and ankles intact, eyes cloudy but open. Inside, however, they uncover impossible injuries—shattered bones, scarred lungs, missing molars lodged in her stomach, ritualistic markings on the underside of her skin, and severe internal burns—contradicting her undamaged exterior. Each new discovery deepens the puzzle and the dread.

While a storm rages outside, strange phenomena begin: radios detune to eerie songs, lights flicker, doors slam shut, and the other corpses in storage seem to stir. Tommy and Austin realize the body may not be a mere victim but the source of the disturbances—an ancient witch-like presence preserved for centuries and tortured during witch trials, her soul bound in her body.

Trapped underground by the storm and failing power, father and son attempt to finish the autopsy to “free” her spirit, but the supernatural forces escalate—illusions, injuries, and fatal accidents follow. In a desperate act of sacrifice, Tommy offers his own life to appease Jane Doe, absorbing her wounds so she might be released. Austin is left horrified and alone as the morgue’s elevator opens to the arriving authorities—yet the corpse of Jane Doe remains unburned, unchanged, and still subtly alive, ready to be transported elsewhere, implying the cycle will continue.

🔑 Tone & Themes

Clinical forensic detail colliding with the unseen occult

A contained, real-time father-son drama amid escalating dread

Themes of inherited guilt, sacrifice, and the permanence of ancient evil

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