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The Life After Death Project (2013/MVD DVD Set)

 

Picture: 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


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